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    • Long Jump

    • Long Jump

    • Games; Sports; Schools; Teachers and students; Celebrations

    • This photo was taken in the last hours of Waterberg Primary School's Annual Athletics event. Students, divided into red and blue teams, participate in track and field events all day in a field just outside of the school grounds. Here, a 5th grade...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Collecting Trash!

    • Collecting Trash!

    • environment; youth

    • This photo was taken in the open courtyard at the Waterberg Primary School in Ongombombonde, Namibia (Otjozondjupa Region) on November 24, 2009. As a small rural village, there only form of trash collection was through the dedicated work of a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • AIDS Free Generation through Education

    • AIDS Free Generation through Education

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo is original work of the Girls' Club of Uukwiyuushona Combined School, Namibia from 28 June 2012. Thirty female learners ages 14-20 collaborated ideas and were given a camera to capture them. As learners in grades either 9 or 10, they...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • We are Taking Control

    • We are Taking Control

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo is was taken at Uukwiyuushona Combined School on the 28th of June 2012 during HIV/AIDS Awareness Week, established by the government of Namibia. This photo was organized with the theme of reducing and eliminating stigma and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • AIDS-Free Generation is in Reach

    • AIDS-Free Generation is in Reach

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo is original work of the Girls' Club of Uukwiyuushona Combined School, Namibia from 28 June 2012. Thirty female learners ages 14-20 collaborated ideas and were given a camera to capture them. As learners in grades either 9 or 10, they...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tears for Years of Fighting HIV/AIDS

    • Tears for Years of Fighting HIV/AIDS

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo is original work of the Girls' Club of Uukwiyuushona Combined School, Namibia from 28 June 2012. Thirty female learners ages 14-20 collaborated ideas and were given a camera to capture them. As learners in grades either 9 or 10, they...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Window of Hope Graduating Class

    • Window of Hope Graduating Class

    • hiv/aids; youth development;

    • This photo was taken on August 2, 2009 with one of the several Window of Hope groups that I worked with at Waterberg Primary School in Ongombombonde, Namibia (Otjozondjupa Region). Window of Hope is a UNICEF driven educational program made up of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • American Football in Namibia

    • American Football in Namibia

    • Sports; Children

    • I played football for ten years in Texas before joining Peace Corps. I lived in a rural town that is very close to the border of South Africa, where rugby is a very popular sport. I figured I'd introduce a new sport to these kids, so taught them...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Namibian Baseball

    • Namibian Baseball

    • Sports; Youth

    • What has been hailed as the "all-American" sport became quite popular at my primary school in Onayena, Namibia. I served as a PCV from 2008-10, during which time I taught grade 5-6 students how to play using a foam bat and wiffle ball set I found...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Working and Learning in the New Computer Lab

    • Working and Learning in the New Computer Lab

    • Technology; Education

    • This photo features a group of 5th graders at Waterberg Primary School in Ongombombonde, Namibia (Otjozondjupa Region). It was taken November 10, 2009 shortly after the new computers arrived and the desks and painting had been completed. Along...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Traditional Dress

    • Traditional Dress

    • traditional dress; counterparts

    • This photo was taken at a local fundraising dinner event in Okakarara, Namibia on Aug 21, 2009. I wore a friends traditional Herero dress and am photographed with a fellow teacher. It was a great honor to be invited to the event with my other...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Teddy Bear Donations for First Grade

    • Teddy Bear Donations for First Grade

    • youth

    • This photo was taken at Waterberg Primary School in Ongombombonde, Namibia (Otjozondjupa Region) June 6, 2009 . The school and PCV solicited for an in-kind donation of teddy bears for the full first grade class (100+ students) from an organization...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Traditional Clothing

    • Traditional Clothing

    • Youth; Traditional dress; Celebrations

    • I took this photo during the celebration of Namibia's independence. Independence came to Namibia on March 21, 1990. I was visiting a fellow Peace Corps volunteer (she's my wife today). The picture is of a few students wearing traditional Nama...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Permagardening in Namibia

    • Permagardening in Namibia

    • HIV/AIDS; Gardens

    • This group of employees from the district hospital in Namibia had just finished planting seeds in their plot at the hospital's community garden. The women are part of an HIV support group at the hospital that I had the pleasure of teaching...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Namibian Ingenuity

    • Namibian Ingenuity
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    • This photo was taken in Namibia in 2009. The hand lettered sign is similar to many hung on the fences surrounding houses in the 'location' that advertise something a family can provide to the public (with no middle men involved). It might be items...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Bringing Home Dinner

    • Bringing Home Dinner

    • Animals; Food and meals

    • I took this photo while walking around the informal settlements in Namibia in early 2011. This man has just shot a warthog in the bush and is bringing it home to feed his family.
    • Volunteer Photos

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