In December, 1991 as I was finishing up my time with Peace Corps my friends in my community (San Miguel, Pastoreo) did a really nice farewell. After feasting on pollo asado, sopa paraguaya, and Coke mixed with beer (yum), there was music and...
I remember the excitement when I learned that I was going to get a motorcycle to help me do my extension work. Peace Corps provided us with one week of training with a US certified motorcycle instructor, and a shiny red Suzuki 100 dirt bike. Here...
It always amazed me how good the kids were at entertaining themselves with what seemed like nothing, for hours on end. In this photo from 1991, my host brother Victor is making clay pellets with his cousin. They would scoop up clay soil,...
In 1990 we had a combined Agriculture and Beekeeping In-service Training. After spending hours and hours learning about green manure and water filtration ditches, all in Spanish, highly technical and delivered by the Dean of the Agricultural...
This photo was taken at one of the HIV and AIDS Prevention Education Workshops in Asuncion, Paraguay. These workshops were collaborative efforts from HIV and AIDS education professionals from the Ministry of Health and Peace Corps Volunteers....
This photo was taken in Capiata, Paraguay - a community located one hour outside the capitol. Often, it is referred to as a "dormotorio" community, or a place where you sleep, as the majority of the residents commute into the capitol for work. This...
This photo was taken at an HIV and AIDS prevention education workshop in Asuncion, Paraguay. The presenter is a professional educator who works with the National Secretariat of Children and Adolescents and had been working with this particular...
Here I am showing off the t-shirt I designed for the Paraguay Peace Corps HIV/AIDS taskforce. I am standing in my garden in the town of San Miguel, Paraguay. Sales of the t-shirt support the program. It was quite popular. "Cuida tu Amor" means "Be...
RPCV Dina Davis with the stickers she designed for the Paraguay Peace Corps AIDS Taskforce awareness campaign, 2010.
The stickers say "Sabes las realidades?," meaning "Do you know the facts?," and were designed to accompany a pamphlet of AIDS...
In this photo I am showing off the t-shirt I designed for the Paraguay Peace Corps HIV/AIDS Taskforce. I am standing in my garden in the town of San Miguel, Paraguay. Sales of the t-shirt support the program. It was quite popular. "Cuida tu Amor"...
I handed my camera to the daughter of one of the midwives who completed our midwifery course. A Peace Corp nurse developed the course with her Paraguayan nurse counterpart through the Ministry of Health and had success in her town. We then used it...
I am a current Peace Corps Volunteer in Paraguay, and I teach a geography class to 6th graders. We've been learning about different countries; experiencing their culture, trying their food, watching movies, and then painting a world map for the...
A history of the Peace Corps in Chile, prepared on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the US Peace Corps, for distribution at the reunion of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers who served in Chile, hosted by the Embassy of Chile in Washington DC...