In this photo the wives of FES staff and work crew helped to plant yams in ITTA plot. Yams are one of the staple foods in the Solomon Islanders' diet. Yams are roasted over an open fire, baked in the traditional stone oven, cooked in pot with...
Running pipe, Aruliho, Solomon Islands, 1982. The women of the village were the movers and shakers and they were the driving force to get this water supply installed so they would not have to carry water up a very steep clay hill side.
This picture is of me and village children (mostly primary school students) in Ataa, Malaita, in the Solomon Islands. Ataa is in north / east Malaita and is accessible only by canoe. I took this picture during a holiday during a Nov 1993 visit ...
Five Temotu Peace Corps Volunteers at the Lata airport welcoming a visiting Volunteer (center of photo). Besides ourselves working in Agro-forestry, the other Volunteers were community education officers, provincial planners and health officers....
Even the children enjoyed working with us and wanted to help with the project. Children accompany their parents to the garden and learn how to plant, harvest and prepare the local foods.
This photo of me was taken at some point during my three years serving in the Solomon Islands. It is made from the teeth of dolphins, and the villagers got a kick out of this, as normally this type of adornment is worn by a woman.
Village girl with cat, Aruliho, Solomon Islands, 1982. My house was used for many things, including meetings; the kids would come with their parents and avail themselves of any reading material I happened to have including Newsweek and National...
Building the clinic, Aruliho, Solomon Islands, 1982. Six villages got together to build a Village Health Aid Post, as part of the requirment to have a local person trained as a Village Health Aid.