In a project directed at increasing revenues by fully processing the local, high-altitude coffee, Tomas and Higinio toast coffee inside an old building built by the government and mining companies. The Ngäbes have recently protested the...
In Fall 2008, photo from working in the peanut field with my friends from the village. I'm wearing a Peace Corps shirt, UC Berkeley hat and lots of dirt from the fiend.
In my second year of volunteering with the Peace Corps in Ghana I celebrated my birthday in the village of Asuboni with many of the children that I adore. Amé is one of them and her wonderful smile and joy of life made me exceptionally happy. It...
The class of five-year-olds at the community preschool enjoying their music class with their enthusiastic teacher. I took this photo during the first few months of the preschool, which started in May, 2011. To date, the preschool is funded...
A young boy who is a relative of my host family was skeptical of my camera abilities. The photo was taken in the front yard of my host household in ga-Mathabatha, Limpoopo, South Africa, towards the end of my Peace Corps service.
During long meetings at Fanang Diatla Self Help Project, volunteers would break into song and dance. In this photo in late July 2011, Mathona entertains a room backed with care givers and other volunteers. Taken at the Fanang Diatla main office in...
Host community friends; Volunteers; Traditional dress
In the final days of my service, Fanang Diatla Self Help Project hosted a going-away party. Mathona introduced the care givers to young Kabelo. Through my organization, I was able to help Kabelo and his mother find a new home and support from care...
Host community friends; Volunteers; Traditional dress
Agnes Qwabe, founder and director of Fanang Diatla Self Help Project, pulled me close during a meeting. Her vision and leadership grew the organization to serve many thousands of people in the surrounding in community, and she is often inspired to...
Host community friends; Volunteers; Traditional dress
Over the course of my service, I helped foster the existing income generating projects. Kopano and I worked closely to improve accounting practices in the bakery. Over the course of my two years, he and I became close friends. We worked together to...
For the second year of my service, I developed a relationship with a secondary school in my community where I repaired computers and established a working computer lab including donated typing games. Students practiced typing skills and became...
Early in my services, Knowledge (the finance manager at my NGO site) and his son took me on a tour of surrounding communities. Caught in unexpected rain and wind, both struggled for shelter under their umbrellas. Taken in the north of the Limpopo...