This is a photo of a young girl posing for the camera. The photo was taken (using color accent) at a friend's house in Juan O'Leary, Alto Parana on December 25, 2010.
This is a photo of workers from the indigenous communities that my counterpart organization collaborated with making repairs to the Visitors' Center in the wildlife reserve we managed, as part of an infrastructure development project we coordinated.
This is a photo of a wetland in the wildlife reserve I helped manage--a home for flocks of birds and large fish. The characteristics of the wetlands varied by season: during some parts of the year, the entire area in this photo would be flooded; at...
This photo includes young girls before marching in their school parade. The event was the Paz del Chaco. The photo was taken on June 11, 2011 in Juan O'Leary.
Me, shortly after my arrival in-country, with the village children in Ouahigouya (Why-E-Goo-Ya), a village in northern Burkina. Shortly after, I relocated to my permanent teaching assignment in the western city of Bobo-Dioulasso.
This photo was taken in 2007 in the town of Corrales, northern Peru . The youth pictured are members of an elementary school soccer team who compete in the Campeonato Mundialito (Little World Championship), a world cup-inspired tournament which...
While serving in Liberia, West Africa in 1981-82, I was stationed in Cape Palmas teaching Architecture. Because I am an artist I made many watercolor studies of the people and their environments throughout the area.
Now I have revived several of...
I took this photo of my wife, PCV Melinda Bothe, at a Masai celebration. My wife and I both serve as science teachers in Kibaya, Tanzania. Our site as many different ethnic traditional cultures with the Masai being the most popular. Having of...
I took this photo in Juan O' Leary, Alto Parana while in the backyard of a friend's house on February 13, 2011. It's a photo of two girls posing while one is holding a bird.
I was a Peace Corps teacher at Khwalala CDSS from 2006 to 2008. With the school's Wildlife Club, I implemented a tree planting project. This photo is a compilation of shots taken over the span of 5 years, showing the impact a PCV can have on a...
This is a compilation showing a successful tree planting project started during my Peace Corps tour in Malawi (2006-08) at Khwalala CDSS. The school's Wildlife Club planted and watered the trees, which are now producing fruit.
This is a photo of an original watercolor painted by a fellow PCV. It depicts one of my secondary projects - bringing donated computers to my school by whatever means necessary. I was a teacher at Khwalala Day Secondary School, Mulanje District,...
Terrain; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Environment
This is a picture of the road leading out of my town, Kibaya, Tanzania. There are many farms and gardens out this way which the local women tend to everyday. Photo was taken Spring 2011.
Myself and the two new foreign teachers were introducing ourselves to the school faculty and to the Minister of Education and the Chairman of all Nazarbayev Intellectual Schools.