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    • Amara Going to the Well

    • Amara Going to the Well

    • Water and sanitation; Counterparts

    • This is a picture of my counterpart, Amara, outside of the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in early 2010. The village of Tsanwa has one foot pump that is 70m deep and two wells to meet their water needs. One of the wells has very...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Blue skies

    • Blue skies

    • housing

    • A storm is coming across the fields in Adeta, Togo in July 2009 during my work with a partnering NGO to construct a community center dedicated to promoting creativity in the youth. The main door to the center remains sheltered as it awaits the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Celebration of the mountains

    • Celebration of the mountains

    • Ceremonies; Host community friends; Volunteers

    • This photo was taken on 6 Sept. 2010 at a Monastery in Bulgaria. The 6th of September is a major holiday for the town. Everyone hikes to the monastery ruins, for blessings from the priest and a picnic. The picture shows me and people from the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Creative Center Grand Opening

    • Creative Center Grand Opening

    • celebrations; artisans

    • To mark the grand opening of the Centre de Creativite d'Adeta, a center funded by the donors of Peace Corps Partnership and community members of ADEC-Togo, I marched to the doors for the ribbon cutting with village chiefs and members of the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dad with Mojitu

    • Dad with Mojitu

    • Pre-service Training (PST); Host families

    • My parents and niece came to visit me while I was serving in Niger. We went to visit the family that had hosted me while I was in pre-service training. This is a picture of my father (M. Ian Jenness) with my host mother's grandson (Mojitu) in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dancing

    • Dancing

    • Dance; Teachers and students; Games

    • At a primary school in Guyana, I would often tell the students in my phonics class that "lots of times we read and sometimes we dance." This was a day when we chose to dance in front of the school during an assembly in 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Faiza and Her Date

    • Faiza and Her Date

    • Gardens; Children

    • This picture was taken in the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in November 2010. This is Faiza Lowali. She found a date pit and brought it to our house and asked if she could plant it in our tree nurserie. We let her and it grew...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Folk singers

    • Folk singers

    • Traditional dress; Celebrations; Volunteers;

    • This photo was taken on June 10, 2011 prior to a concert of folk singers for the new group of Peace Corps Bulgaria volunteers. It shows myself and another volunteer with "Babas" (grandmas) from our host village. Almost every village and town has an...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fulani Wrestling Match

    • Fulani Wrestling Match

    • sports; celebrations; host community friends

    • I took this image during a welcome ceremony in a fellow PVC's northern village in Togo. All the community members in his village held activities that displayed the traditions of Togolese. The ceremony opened up with a traditional Fulani wrestling...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Grammie!

    • Grammie!

    • Children; Host community friends

    • This is a picture of Halima Abdou with her grand child. The picture was taken in the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in 2010.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Grape Harvesting

    • Grape Harvesting

    • host community friends; agriculture

    • This photo was taken September 27th, 2010 in a garden near Chiprovtsi, Bulgaria. I spent the day harvesting grapes for homemade wine with my friend, Yulka (pictured). She taught me folk songs while we worked.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hassana and Zina

    • Hassana and Zina

    • Food and meals; Cooking;Host community friends

    • This picture was taken in the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in September 2010. The woman on the left is Hassana Garba who taught me how to pound and winnow my own millet. The other woman is Zina Hashimu, Hassana's...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Henna

    • Henna

    • Traditional dress; Celebrations

    • This picture was taken in the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in November 2010. These are my feet and the baby feet of Laure Garba. We both got traditional henna done to our feet for the Tabaski festival.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Here's Using Your Head!

    • Here's Using Your Head!

    • water and sanitation; host community friends

    • I did it! I channeled my inner posture and strength to join in the gathering of water needed for the construction of a creative center in my village of Adeta, Togo. I was committed to showing the workers that I could try to do something that I...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hokey Pokey

    • Hokey Pokey

    • dance; youth development

    • This images is of my fellow PCV and children in our host village of Agou, Togo in the summer of 2007. While on break during our first weeks of training, we joined in teaching the children one of our favorite pastime games, the Hokey Pokey.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Home Sweet Africa

    • Home Sweet Africa

    • art

    • Upon completion of my service in Togo, I decided to take Peace Corps up on that third goal and put together an exhibit highlighting some moments of my time in the Peace Corps. The exhibit was titiled "Home Sweet Africa" and displayed photos and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Honoring My Village Grams, One Year Later

    • Honoring My Village Grams, One Year Later

    • elders; host community friends

    • The image was taken during my return visit to my village of Adeta, Togo one year after my service ended. I was so happy to be able to share a tribute to the woman who became my village grandma. I presented her with a photo of the exhibit that...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hybrids in Togo?

    • Hybrids in Togo?

    • transportation

    • I caught a glimpse of local Togolese using an "green" method to commuting and it made me smile. While the truck had been broken down, they wasted no time in getting it to it's final destination. Living and working in Togo always reminded me of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Just Be

    • Just Be

    • Host families

    • It's amazing how much you begin to look for the little signs that define life, while serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer. As I walked into the courtyard where my best friends mother was cooking up lunch, I noticed this mango hanging from the tree. ...
    • Volunteer Photos

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