Photo was taken on January 21, 2008 in Cuied Village of Comuna Buteni, Romania. I took this photo while a fellow Volunteer was interviewing a respondent on a survey of community training needs. The survey was conducted to determine specific...
I took this photo in the Village of Berindia, one of the four villages of Comuna Buteni, Romania on January 15, 2008. The photo shows a fellow Volunteer interviewing respondent couple and a local village councilman assisting the PCV in the...
Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)
The picture shows some members of the Roma Girls Club "Fete Pentru Viitor" (Girls for the Future) during one of their life skills' training days (GAD PC Romania funded) together with two local volunteers teaching them a variety of crafts like...
Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); elders
PCVs visited the Village of Buteni, Romania on September 8, 2008 to assist a skills training workshop for Roma Girls funded by Peace Corps GAD Romania. They met this wonderful Romania lady who gave information about the life of the Romas in the...
I took this photo of my eleventh grade students celebrating their final paint strokes during a school mural project in Orsova, Romania. In the project, eight high school classes were able to design and paint a mural, it was an amazing experience...
Myself and another volunteer (who just finished her service along with two Hungarian ladies- now friends) spent time to teach and entertain over 40 children for a summer camp in near St. Gheorghe. We had such a great time, but after all the...
After an English lesson about our solar system, campers used everyday objects to make a 3-D model for a team competition. This veteran Peace Corps Volunteer just loves science and on this day, we learned about the weather, astronomy, and anatomy,...
In April 2008, the Balan Peace Corps Volunteers organized a giant cheerleading session for English Friendship Club. The 30 middle schoolers had matching T-Shirts with the club logo, a gift from our families in America, and we made pompoms to...
In August 2007, a group of Peace Corps Volunteers across Romania converged on Sovata, Ro., in Transylvania for a week-long journalism camp. Here Volunteer Matt Zdon helps students prepare articles for the camp newspaper.
As a Peace Corps volunteer, I took part in the annual Somlyo pilgrimage. "Ave Maria" echoed through the high mountain valley as it has every Pentecost for 440 years. Horsemen in wool Hussars uniforms, cardinals in jewel-tone robes and peasant...
A first ever for Campia Turzii, Romania, my students from two middle schools presented the play after hours of rehearsal, costume selection, and set design. I directed it and as a Peace Corps Volunteer in my second year now, it was a sweet way to...
I had left my camera back in the US when I left to volunteer in Romania. There I acquired an old Russian Zorky-C rangefinder camera and an old very bulky medium format German camera. This picture of students was taken at one of the schools where I...
The four Peace Corps volunteers in my little Romanian mountain town of Balan teamed up for a middle school English club, "English Friendship Club," as named by the students. We hosted weekly meetings and a once-a-month themed party. In February,...
Balan, Romania: At a ceremony for the dead in the spring of 2008, one of my preschoolers came up to me to show off his English. He was a stellar student, besides being sweet and one of the very few preschoolers who could answer "How are you" with...