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    • Making Piñatas

    • Making Piñatas
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    • In this photo, Volunteer Erin assists students in making piñatas at an English immersion summer camp in South Kazakhstan. In connection with this project students learned about Mexican culture and it's presence in the United States.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Vegetarian Festival in Phuket

    • Vegetarian Festival in Phuket
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    • The Vegetarian Festival is an annual event in Thailand, celebrated especially by Chinese Thais. Specially chosen devotees prepare physically and spiritually before the festival and follow a vegetarian diet. During the event they partake in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • With a Favorite Friend at Her Loom

    • With a Favorite Friend at Her Loom
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    • This is one of the sweetest people around. She is "Yai," or "grandmother." At age 86 she continues to be involved in the community and to make cotton and herbal medicines in her home. I pass her house on the way home from school, and after tough...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Human Boggle

    • Human Boggle
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    • In this photo, Volunteer Robin plays a game with students at an English immersion summer camp that took place in South Kazakhstan in June 2011. The camp was attended by 83 students who participated in the "English Olympics." The students in this...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wat Tam Suea

    • Wat Tam Suea
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    • This is one of the favorite places I visited in Thailand: Wat Tam Suea, or Tiger Cave Temple. Visitors can climb about 1100 steps to the top, passing playful monkies on the way, and are rewarded with breathtaking views at the top.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Protected Banana

    • Protected Banana
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    • I took this photo during a GLOW (Girls Leading Our World) camp in Piura, Peru during February, 2010. A large component of this girls' leadership weekend was teaching about sexual education. Here, one of the girls from my town, Yocelin, practices...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Goodbye cake

    • Goodbye cake
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    • I took this photo on my last full day in my community of Malval, Tumbes, Peru on November 12, 2010. During my service I taught my three host nephews (pictured left to right: Jhosue, Isaac, and Joel) how to bake many things. Here we are baking a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Standing for the Next Generation

    • Standing for the Next Generation
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    • 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
    • HIV and AIDS Vigil

    • HIV and AIDS Vigil
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    • I took this photo in Peru on November 29th, 2009. My main project during my service was to promote HIV and AIDS prevention among young people in my site. Here my committee of community leaders and I organized a candlelight vigil to honor those...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Little Mariachi

    • Little Mariachi
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    • I took this photo in November, 2009 at the going away party for my site mate, Michael. The festivities included much traditional song and dance, which was led by this charming young boy singing a soulful mariachi tune.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Telephone

    • Telephone
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    • 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
    • Timket Service

    • Timket Service
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    • Orthodox priests line up and chant during the Timket (Epiphany Celebration) Service on Jan. 19, 2013 in Gondar, Ethiopia. Gondar is a large pilgrimage site for Epiphany, and the service includes the blessing of holy water at Fasilides Baths, unique...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Candlelight Prayer at Dawn

    • Candlelight Prayer at Dawn
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    • Woman praying by candlelight at dawn at the Timket (Epiphany Celebration) Service on Jan. 19, 2013 in Gondar, Ethiopia. Timket is celebrated every year on Jan. 19th and marks the baptism of Jesus by the Ethiopian Orthodox Church calendar.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Candles of Hope

    • Candles of Hope
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    • This photo was taken at a World AIDS Day vigil in Lautoka, Fiji on Dec. 1, 2009. Stakeholders in reproductive health organized the event which included personal testimony, a puppet show about prevention, and speakers from each major religious...
    • Volunteer Photos

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