Peace Corps Trainnes Orianna and Sharon visit Dar Neghrassi in Azrou during training. Abdou was great company for many Volunteers, serving tea, helping with language, educating SBD volunteers about rugs - and maybe even selling them some!
PCVs Sharon Keld and Brian Kremer present a sign to the Azrou rug cooperative president, Azrou, Morocco. Also in the picture is a metal artisan at the Azrou Ensemble Artisanal.
Zakaria placed the collected trashes into the garbage can from an environmental trash pick-up activity in Ait Ben Haddou. This activity enhances the youth awareness and helps promote a cleaner and healthier environment.
In this photo, I am with the mother of the family who took good care of my when I was working deep inside Tazekka National Park. Here we are getting ready to prepare this goat for the Aid L'Kabir celebrations held about a month after Ramadan. ...
I took this photo in Toufestelt village near my site in Ain Leuh, Ifrane Province, Morocco during the July 4, 2011 celebration that I shared with them. I was working with a group of 12 lakeside high school students from Seatle, Wa. who were there...
This picture was taken right outside the health clinic where I teach women health lessons. Some of the children were waiting on their mom while she talked to the nurse and listened to one of my health lessons.
Aicha Boulmahuahib was the midwife at the local hospital at Ouled Berhill, Taroudant, Morocco where I lived for 2 years. The day I met her, we automatically started developing health workshops for women in the community. Also, I assisted her on...
A bunch of kids from school were watching the Moroccan men (all volunteers) work on the elementary's school's new bathroom (June 2011) in Elkassaba El Khir, Tata, Morocco.
I took this photo on my walk home, after having tea with the head of one of my villages. This photo was taken at the top of the Ait Bazza valley, in Fes-Boulemane Province, Morocco. The moment took my breath away, with the broken trail, the village...
This photo was taken December 3, 2011 during an event to mark the observance of World AIDS Day. This little girl attended the event, which included a candlelight vigil, a skit competition and informational session on SIDA. A group of young people...
The women at the literacy association where I worked made this cake as part of the World AIDS Day celebration that we held on Dec. 1, 2011 in Morocco. The event featured a SIDA skit competition, a candlelight vigil, and informational session about...
As a small business development Volunteer, I worked with weavers in a rural village in Morocco. The hills surrounding our village were filled with cave dwelling nomads. I became very close with one of these families, the Lahcen Eshu family, and I...