This is a picture of my host mother and I on a tricyle, the main mode of transportation in our barangay (village). We are on our way to a family gathering. Every Sunday Mama Len's family gets together to play cards, mahjong, eat food, and enjoy...
This is my host mother from the village of Phoshiri in northern South Africa (Limpopo Province). The village just received electricity in late 2007 but many of the traditional means of life have not changed (I.e., cooking over a fire). My host...
Host families; Pre-service Training (PST); Cooking
The photo was taken in 2008 during my pre-service training. This was my training host mother and she was training me to make traditional "pap" or "bogobe" which is eaten throughout rural South Africa. It was a real treat for her to show me how to...
Host families; Celebrations; Pre-service Training (PST)
This photo was taken near the end of my summer training in Baruunburren soum, Mongolia, 2003. This celebration was both a celebration of the end of our training in the village and the opening of my host father's veterinarian hospital. We were...
This mother was one of the first women in my village to receive PMTC (Preventing Mother to Child Transmission) treatments. She is HIV positive and her baby Ausi Bonolo was born HIV negative. This photo was taken in the remote mountainous Thaba...
This photo was taken sometime during Pchum Ben 2010 (Sept. 18-20), in my host mom's outdoor kitchen. They live in a small Village in Cambodia. She and my host pa are rice farmers. The preparations for this celebration were particularly poignant as...
Grade four students from St. Dominics R.C. Primary School in Grenada have just completed making Mothers Day cars for elderly ladies at the St. Martins Home for the Aged. Each student was given two pieces of construction paper and there was only one...