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    • With Host Family in Peru

    • With Host Family in Peru

    • Host families

    • This photo, taken in 1969, is of Volunteer Jim Hencin along with the host family in whose house he lived in Limatambo, Peru. The family owned a restaurant/pension that served many travelers who stopped on their way to and from Cuzco, the regional...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Water is Life!- Agua es Vida!

    • Water is Life!- Agua es Vida!

    • Host community friends; Construction; Water and sanitation

    • This photo was taken Aug. 29th, 2007 in Carata Peru. It includes me (center in red shirt) after working with locals to install a new concrete reservoir which would provide potable water to the community. The renovation of the system coincided with...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wash Those Little Hands

    • Wash Those Little Hands

    • Water and sanitation; Teachers and students

    • On October 15, 2010, Global Handwashing Day, I held a demonstration on how to use an old plastic bottle to wash your hands. The surrounding children are primary school students in the Educational Institution Fe y Alegria #70. The children continued...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Viva Peru!

    • Viva Peru!

    • Sports; Children

    • This photo was taken in 2007 in the town of Corrales, northern Peru . The youth pictured are members of an elementary school soccer team who compete in the Campeonato Mundialito (Little World Championship), a world cup-inspired tournament which...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Typical Transportation in Peru

    • Typical Transportation in Peru

    • Transportation

    • This photo, taken in 1969, shows men who were traveling from Limatambo, Peru, to an agricultural demonstration farm. The truck, typical of ones that transported both people and goods, had a flat tire, which was being fixed.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Trust Fall

    • Trust Fall

    • Youth development

    • This photo, taken on July 21, 2011, depicts Peace Corps trainee Jeff as he demonstrates "trust falls' with Peruvian youth at the local colegio in Peru during field-based training. Youth development Volunteers often use self-esteem and trust...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • To Pasture

    • To Pasture

    • Animals; Agriculture

    • This image was taken during my site visit in Peru on August 12, 2011. A new friend in my community, an 11 year-old boy named Toni, took me on a walk around the outskirts of town to show me the beautiful surrounding scenery. On the way back home, we...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The First Cuy Sighting

    • The First Cuy Sighting

    • Food and meals; Markets

    • This photo was taken on July 17, 2011 in the market of Huaraz, Ancash, Peru during my Peace Corps training. Guinea pig, or rather Cuy, is a delicacy in Peru that I had wanted to try since I first arrived in the country. I took this photo because I...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Easter Bunny in the Andes

    • The Easter Bunny in the Andes

    • Children; Celebrations; Religion

    • This photo was taken in April 2010 in a community in the Andes mountains of Peru. Although they do not celebrate Easter there, I wanted to share something I had enjoyed as a child--dying Easter eggs--with the kids at my local elementary school....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Telephone

    • Telephone

    • Traditional dress; site; education

    • I took this photo in Pomabamba, Ancash on April 1st, 2011 during a PEPFAR training workshop for Peace Corps Volunteers and their community counterparts. The photo shows two women playing the game "telephone," in which a complicated phrase is...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Teaching

    • Teaching

    • health

    • Peace Corps Peru Volunteer Shannon Doran is teaching a nutrition course with food group cut-outs as part of a "Healthy Homes" project that received funding from her Small Project Assistance grant from USAID. Forty-five women from her small...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Student Submission at HIV Event

    • Student Submission at HIV Event

    • HIV/AIDS; Drama

    • This photo was taken on December 1st, 2011 at a PEPFAR funded HIV awareness event in the Volunteer's town square. You can plainly see the large poster made by students at a secondary school and a teenage girl talking about their project.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Student Drama Performance at HIV Event

    • Student Drama Performance at HIV Event

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken of students on December 1st, 2011 at a PEPFAR funded HIV awareness event in the Volunteer's town square. You can plainly see the HIV/AIDS sign in the background. They are performing a skit dedicated to preventing discrimination...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Standing for the Next Generation

    • Standing for the Next Generation

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken in Corrales, Tumbes, Peru, on the eve of World AIDS Day, 2009. We received a small PEPFAR grant to run a year-long HIV prevention program, focused on training youth peer educators and educating the community about prevention...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Site Office in Limatambo, Peru

    • Site Office in Limatambo, Peru

    • Site

    • This photo was taken in 1969 in front of the Ministry of Agriculture sector office in Limatambo, Peru, where Volunteer Jim Hencin was assigned to work with a Peruvian counterpart. The photo is of Jim Hencin.
    • Volunteer Photos

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