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    • A Rocket Project Accomplished

    • A Rocket Project Accomplished

    • Youth development; Secondary projects

    • A fellow Volunteer, Bruce, was placed in Eastern Slovakia and helped school children with making model rockets. It was successful and this photo is of those children with him in the front row.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Secondary Projects: Adult English Club

    • Secondary Projects: Adult English Club

    • Secondary Projects

    • Standing in front of the Great Patriotic War (WWII) Memorial, Community Development Volunteer Michael Warchol and his adult English club take students on a tour of the town, stopping at each place of interest for the older generation to tell the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Celebrating Accomplishment Together

    • Celebrating Accomplishment Together

    • Secondary projects; Counterparts

    • This photo was taken on August 4th, 2011 at the grand opening of the newly renovated firehouse which facilitated the creation of fire safety and prevention program for my town Macedonia. The cake displays the logo of the fire department and the 3...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Promoting a Clean Environment

    • Promoting a Clean Environment

    • Youth; Environment; Secondary projects

    • I took this photo during an Ecological Campaign on May 6, 2010 next to the St. John's Cathedral park in Comrat the capital of the semi-autonomous region of Gagauzia in Moldova. Much of my work as a Volunteer involved coordinating social actions...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Community Clean Up

    • Community Clean Up

    • Anniversaries; Secondary projects; Pre-service Training (PST)

    • Mozambique 16 Peace Corps Trainees (PCT) Morgan, Kelly and Allison gave a helping hand to their training community on June 12th, 2011 by cleaning up the local hospital. PCT homestay families also participated in the event. The event was planned by...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Promoting Water Conservation

    • Promoting Water Conservation

    • Children; Natural disasters; Art; Secondary projects; Water and sanitation

    • Following the tsunami of 2009, Peace Corps Volunteers partnered with the Red Cross to promote water conservation and provide an afternoon of enjoyment in the midst of sadness and loss. Volunteers from groups 80, 81 and 82, led by Volunteer Joey...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cooling Off

    • Cooling Off

    • 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.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Roger and Richard and Playground Workers

    • Roger and Richard and Playground Workers

    • Secondary projects

    • In Canlaon City, Negros Oriental, Philipines, Volunteers Richard and Roger worked with the city to plan and build a public playground for the children of this rural area. The photo shows us measuring out the site of the seesaws. Taken...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Finishing Touches on the Seesaws

    • Finishing Touches on the Seesaws

    • Secondary projects; Children

    • Taken about June, 1964, the photo shows Richard Johnsen (myself) painting the seesaws before the grand opening of the town playground of Canlaon, Negros Oriental, Philippines. With the approval of the town mayor and the help of town workers, the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Town Children Take Over the Seesaws.

    • Town Children Take Over the Seesaws.

    • Secondary projects; Children

    • Taken about June, 1964, the photo shows how enthusiastically the town children (Canlaon City, Negros Oriental, Philippines) adopted the new seesaws, overseen by Volunteers Roger and Richard and approved by the town mayor, Mr. Bautista.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The School Garden

    • The School Garden

    • Secondary projects; Children; Agriculture; Environment

    • This photo was taken in Nicaragua in the village of Las Palmeras outside of the city of Rivas. I worked with this group of children ages 5-10 at their school to create a tree nursery and organic garden. This project ultimately fulfilled the goal...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Pizza Party with Students

    • Pizza Party with Students

    • Secondary projects; Life skills

    • The photo was taken in Athiru Gaiti, Kenya in December of 2010. My students and I built a brick pizza oven near the start of my service and this pictures shows the final time I made pizza with them. We also painted the Peace Corps logo on the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Blindness, Not Vision-Less

    • Blindness, Not Vision-Less

    • Youth; Secondary projects

    • These two Grenadian students are visually impaired and just completed the first-ever, "Resource Centre for the Blind Walkathon" on May 27, 2009. We had just walked 2.5 miles through town and settled down to eat refreshments and proceed with the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Gringo Tsachi

    • Gringo Tsachi

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Puchov Playground

    • Puchov Playground

    • Secondary projects

    • Took this photo on my return to Slovakia in May 2005, four years after I left. It is the playground that was built after our successful public relations campaign that included grant writing, community involvement and fund raising. *Note that my...
    • Volunteer Photos

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