The extended family of my host family during training in the summer of 2008. The head of family is Tsetsgey, second from left. Her two daughters center front and two grandchildren front. I am second from right with Tsetsgey's sister.
Here are some of our students playing a game centered on myths and facts about AIDS/HIV. This took place at a nursing school in Mongolia during the school's first Worlds AIDS Awareness Day on December 2, 2009.
This photo was taken at the school of nursing in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on December 2nd, 2009. My counterparts and I wrote a grant to a local agency asking for condoms and educational materials. We received them plus t-shirts and each of my...
Host community; Housing; Elders; Traditional dress
A migratory farming family at their fall location. The three generation family lives together in this ger which included a wood stove, a solar panel for power, and a television that got one channel which brought them a favorite spectator sport -...
A young farmer herds his sheep with a camel (and alternately, but not shown here, the Mongolian version of a yak and of course, the country's famous horses).
President Nambaryn Enkhbayar joined Peace Corps staff and Volunteers to celebrate the 15th anniversary of Peace Corps' operations. Following the event, we took a staff photo.
Each 4th of July Peace Corps Mongolia hosts a basketball tournament with a team of trainees playing a team of currenlty serving Volunteers and staff. In 2006, a closely fought battle came down to the wire before the Staff/Volunteer team escaped...