Host families; Traditional dress; Secondary projects; Celebrations
This photo was taken in April of 2010 in the Tsa'chila village of El Poste, Ecuador. Here, I am dressed in traditional Tsa'chila attire with my host family in front of a garden we planted together. The garden sits between two new tourist huts we...
I took this photo in May 2010 at a Catholic primary school in Togo, West Africa. This was a HIV/AIDS training teaching students the characteristics of the disease, prevention, living with it, etc. This photo shows the students representing every...
I took this photo during the middle of the construction of a grain storage warehouse in December 2009 in a village in Togo, West Africa. This was the first major project of any size for the village and everyone wanted to chip in some effort. This...
Children; Secondary projects; Water and sanitation
While building wells in a rural community in the hottest months of the year (April), I stumbled upon this little guy trying to cool off inside a chamber pot.
One of my favorite jobs in Morocco was mentoring youth at a juvenile facility in Fes, the country's oldest city. Some of the kids joined me for a candid moment after an attempt to teach them a few words in English in the fall of 2006.