Environment; Forestry; Work; Host community friends
I had this photo taken of me and my friend, Jonnys, during a community reforestation campaign in Macuelizo, Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua in August, 1997. We are shown planting a Mexican cedar tree. I had established a tree nursery and organized a...
This picture was taken by my sister Karen when she came to visit me in Nicaragua in 2001. I got to wash our clothes by hand on the pila, a concrete washboard and sink. This was a source of great amusement and connection with my grandmother who...
Before I successfully completed my Small Project Assistance (SPA) grant to reconstruct three classrooms of Instituto Nacional Azarias Henry Pallais in Corinto, Nicaragua, we were forced to hold class outside on the basketball court. There was no...
Me with my counterpart Rosita and one of our first-year classes at the Instituto Nacional Azarias Henry Pallais in Corinto, Nicaragua. This class included all of the misfits and repeating students in one section. The typical first-year student...
This Volunteer is working with the Rural Electrification program in Nicaragua. Here he is shown riding a horse as he goes from village to village surveying the needs of the area in order to plan for power distribution lines. He passes poles...
This Volunteer is working with the Rural Electrification cooperative. Here he is shown explaining electrification to a few villagers collected on the main road near Tonala.
This Volunteer is working with the Rural Electrification program in Nicaragua. Here he is shown riding a horse as he goes from village to village surveying the needs of the area in order to plan for power distribution lines. He passes poles...
A carpenter on his way home from work carrying his new power saw that he is now able to use since the installation of electricity by the Peace Corps’ Rural Electrification program.
These two Volunteers work with the Rural Electrification program. Here the Volunteers are shown holding a survey map and talking about an area that they have yet to cover.
This two Volunteers work with the Rural Electrification Program in Nicaragua. Here the Volunteers talk with some villagers in Tonala about the Rural Electrification program.
This Volunteer works with the Rural Electrification program in Nicaragua. Here he is shown talking with another Volunteer and a storekeeper in the village El Capulin, Granada outside of his store about the rural electrification project.
This Volunteer is a volunteer nurse at San Juan de Dios Hospital in Esteli where she teaches nursing to 25 girls who, following their two month training course, will become assistant nurses at the hospital. Here the Volunteer instructs one of her...
This Volunteer is a volunteer nurse at San Juan de Dios Hospital in Esteli where she teaches nursing to 25 girls who, following their two month training course, will become assistant nurses at the hospital. Here the Volunteer instructs one of her...