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    • New Best Friends

    • New Best Friends

    • Host families; Children

    • This photo was taken in the Comarca Ngobe Bugle, Panama in 2007 during my site visit, part of the pre-service training. The host mom and dad were too busy preparing meals but the host brothers and sisters took me around the neighborhood posing for...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Rice Paddy Training

    • Rice Paddy Training

    • Counterparts

    • In conjunction with my neighbor (also a Volunteer), we are training our counterparts how to construct and plant rice paddies in the rural areas of Panama, 2008.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yaneth Weaving

    • Yaneth Weaving

    • Host community friends; Children

    • This was taken in 2011 (post-service) while visiting the Emberá community Ella Drua in Colón, Panama. Yaneth was weaving a traditional Emberá basket while her daughter, Vianca, and my son, Adrián, played on the floor.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Vielka

    • Vielka

    • Markets

    • This was taken in my site Caño Quebrado, Colón, Panamá during my service in 2009. I was buying a few things from this store before going out for the day to harvest coffee with Vielka and her parents (she was on summer break from school). Many...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Omar, My First Buddy

    • Omar, My First Buddy

    • children; Culture shock and adaptation

    • Like most Peace Corps Volunteers, my first friend in my community was a three year old. His name was Omar and he kept my spirits high during those first few awkward months of transition into a whole new lifestyle. Panamá, 2008.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Long View of a Country House

    • Long View of a Country House

    • children; Host families

    • This photo was taken during my first month in site, in July of 2009, at my host family's residence. Johnny is standing in the foreground, Angel is running with a truck, Jose Carmen is standing, and in the background Eduardo and Gisy are braiding...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mardi Gras in the Campo

    • Mardi Gras in the Campo

    • children; celebrations;

    • This was taken in February of 2010 in my community in Panama. During Carnaval I spiced up my English class by talking about Mardi Gras, our carnaval. The students made masks to celebrate. Dixon, my landlandy's son, is actually wearing the mask his...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • David Griggs andWith

    • David Griggs andWith

    • children; environment

    • Forestry Peace Corps Volunteer David Griggs happened upon a neglected Indian reservation of the Ache/Guaiyaki in the forests of eastern Paraguay in April 1971. This first encounter led to my service working with the Ache/Gaiyaki. Ultimately, Peace...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • OCASP Farmer's Cooperative

    • OCASP Farmer's Cooperative

    • Peace Corps Response (Crisis Corps)

    • The photo was taken in the Chagres National Park in the village of San Juan de Pequeni in the Republic of Panama. The individuals in the picture are members of the OCASP Sustainable Agriculture Cooperative that produces organic coffee and produce...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Pilliaring

    • Pilliaring

    • Food and meals; Host families

    • Here I am, Emily Heller, Peace Corps Volunteer in Panama, Community Environmental Conservation Group 68 in my community. The date is 7/12/2011 - eight days after I arrived at site. I am with my host grandmother on her front porch learning how to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Galletas

    • Galletas

    • food and meals; host families

    • Here I am, again, on August 17th 2011 with my host sister, Jenifer, in her parents' kitchen baking oatmeal raisin cookies - an American favorite. We thoroughly enjoyed learning together how to cook cookies over a flame in their Panamanian stove.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • La Imaginacion

    • La Imaginacion

    • Schools; Children; Education

    • Second Grade Panamanian student named Luzmila takes a trip to a far off distant island by listening to a seashell as she and her fellow classmantes learn about geographic locations around the world and within their own country. San Vicente, Darien,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • PCV Piñata Look-alike

    • PCV Piñata Look-alike

    • Games; Children; Volunteers

    • This photo was taken on June 11th of 2011 in my village in the Republic of Panama at my farewell ceremony the day before I left to begin my close of service proceedings. These are the daughters of my friends/counterparts Nori and Eloi . Neither...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • San Juan Reforestation Group

    • San Juan Reforestation Group

    • Forestry

    • PCRV Jacob Slusser seen with OCASP reforestation group and their first native tree seedlings in a small tree nursery. The saplings were to reforest riparian areas that are important for the Panama Canal Watershed. June 2008, San Juan de Pequeni,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • School Chickens

    • School Chickens

    • Teachers and students

    • Emily Heller, Sector CEC (environment), July 2011-July 2013, observing in the school with the students and the newly delivered chickens.
    • Volunteer Photos

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