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...
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.
Pre-service training (PST); Volunteers; Art; Education
In an effort to nurture creativity, the training staff engaged the Volunteers in a group mural painting exercise. We all made contributions and learned collective creative thinking. But it didn't do much for our painting skills.
Stopped along a country road in Central Slovakia, to our surprise came this Slovak couple traveling to town on their horse drawned wagon. When asked if they had a car they said "no." They must have wondered why Americans were in the countryside...
Volunteers; Host families; Pre-service training (PST)
During our training our host mother asked us to go with here into nature (hike) into the hills surrounding the village of Modra. We didn't know at the time that is was a political rally for a political party, of which there were many. We were...