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    • Class Photo

    • Class Photo

    • Teachers and students

    • This picture was taken in 2004 in Old Tafo, Ghana in the Eastern Region at W.B.M. Zion Senior Secondary School. This is my first class of General Knowledge in Art students posing in the field outside our school block. I like the way their violet...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • She Picked Me

    • She Picked Me

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photograph was taken in the North West Region of Ghana in 2005 during the Peace Corps annual bike ride for HIV/AIDS awareness and education. I love this picture because I remember that day so well, there was singing and dancing around a huge...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • See through to me

    • See through to me

    • Schools; Children; Education

    • While serving in Jamaica (05-07) I worked at Mocho Primary School (what we would call an elementary school). I went through the school when I was first there and took many photos of the students, including several striking portraits. In this...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Piercing Stare

    • Piercing Stare

    • Schools; Children; Education

    • This is a photo of an elementary school boy. In the afternoons some students would come to my house, which was across from the school. In this photo this fourth grade boy is standing in front of my door, looking directly and probingly at me. The...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Triptych

    • Triptych

    • Schools; Children; Education

    • This photo was taken in a little alcove in the yard of the primary school where I served. The enclosure is made by heavy foliage overgrowing a barbed-wire fence. The students had taken in some chairs, in various states of disrepair, to sit on and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Approaching Storm

    • Approaching Storm

    • Weather; Site

    • I took this picture during a relaxing day at the Negril Beach. The sky turned from brilliant blue and sunny to dark and cloudy in a matter of minutes. One wonders as the fate of the 'Reef Princess' as she lies quietly upon the tranquil sea awaiting...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Where the Heck is Helena?

    • Where the Heck is Helena?

    • Transportation; Housing

    • Traveling by taxi from the capital of Guyana, Georgetown, to my new site in New Amsterdam, I flew by this road sign. Helena?? That's my hometown in Montana! It's pointing in the right direction, but I reckon it's a village here. I don't recall...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Crossover Training in the Field

    • Crossover Training in the Field

    • Host community friends; Children; Games

    • Natase and Shania are my friends, my distraction, my adopted daughters, my salvation. Jump ropes sent from friends back home are used as a cultural exchange. I teach them the cross-over technique and they fill me in on neighborhood gossip. Photo...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • What's Your Flavour?

    • What's Your Flavour?

    • Food and meals

    • Volunteers Tim, Emily, Shannon and I are sampling some of the fare at the House of Flavour rasta shop in Georgetown, Guyana. Don't always judge your meal by the looks...this was GREAT, and the fact that it cost less than $2.00 was even better! ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Berbice Sewing Bee

    • Berbice Sewing Bee

    • Crafts; Income generation; Literacy

    • One of my Peace Corps projects included a Capacity Building and Literacy Program. Classes included crafts, sewing, literacy, and computers. This photo shows three students attending their first of many sewing classes. Photo taken in March, 2009.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Back Roads of Canje, Guyana

    • Back Roads of Canje, Guyana

    • Transportation

    • New Amsterdam, Guyana is below sea level. The only place with any elevation is the Canje Bridge between New Amsterdam and Canje. Part of my exercise routine includes scaling the bridge a few times a week. Most people travel by foot, bicycle,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Women in the Peace Corps: you can't send a girl there!

    • Women in the Peace Corps: you can't send a girl there!

    • Marketing campaigns; Volunteer recruitment; Women in Peace Corps

    • Full text of a brochure highlighting the unique challenges faced by women in the early years of the Peace Corps, as well as their many accomplishments around the world. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure is likely from...
    • Brochures

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