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...
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...
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...
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...