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    • Raising Chickens

    • Raising Chickens

    • agriculture; animals

    • I am checking on our young chickens as part of our in-country training in the summer of 1966. We built the coops and raised the chickens from chicks.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Vegetable Garden

    • Vegetable Garden

    • food and meals; agriculture

    • Unicef furnished us vegetable seeds so we could help the women in the villages learn to plant and maintain vegetable gardens to have a variety of vegetables all year long. Nilokheri, Haryana, INDIA. Winter 1967
    • Volunteer Photos
    • At home with Captain Butalia

    • At home with Captain Butalia

    • host community friends

    • This is my husband Terry, also a PCV, and Captain Butalia. We are visiting in their home in India. The Butalias welcomed us into their home like we were family. We learn much of their culture and they were so curious about America and President...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cattle Plowing

    • Cattle Plowing

    • host community friends; agriculture; animals

    • This is a photo of one of the farmers my husband worked with plowing his field with his cattle. One of the ways my husband, Terry, helped the farmers was to educate them on using more than one fertilizer on their land. Punjab, India. Fall 1966
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Usha and myself

    • Usha and myself

    • host community friends; schools

    • This photo is of Usha, a young girl in the town who assisted me in the Nursery School, and myself. We spent many hours together as friends and teaching young children. Nilokheri, Haryana, INDIA. Fall 1966.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Nursery School

    • Nursery School

    • schools; children

    • This is a photo of me reading "The Three Little Pigs" in English to Punjabi and Hindi speaking pre-schoolers. In our village of Nilokheri, Haryana, INDIA, the community wanted an English/Pubjabi/Hindi Speaking Nursery School for their...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Riding in a Bus

    • Riding in a Bus

    • transportation

    • We traveled by bike almost everywhere we went. But if we had to travel more than 10 miles, we traveled by bus or train. This was a typical bus ride. There were lots of people wanting to ride the bus, so everyone got on that possible could -...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Terry and our Home

    • Terry and our Home

    • volunteers; animals

    • This is a photo of Terry, my husband, outside our home in Nilokheri, Haryana, India. He is holding our dog, Ginger. Ginger was given to us by the Butalia family. They said we needed a dog to alert us to any snakes nearby. Winter 1967
    • Volunteer Photos

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