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- Young Students
- Students attending school every morning or afternoon. School sponsored by local Association to Aid Youth of Jequie.
- Volunteer Photos
- Young Love
- This photo was taken in May 2008 at School #3662 in Isla Tobati, Paraguay. This is a traditional dance that the students were doing for a Mother's Day celebration. The photo shows a girl and boy in costume during the performance. They are both six...
- Volunteer Photos
- Young Kichwa Dancer
- This photo was taken on May 23, 2009 at a dance competition in Ecuador. Traditional Kichwa dances are performed at every public event in the Napo province and troupes are composed children of all ages. The dance steps describe traditional...
- Volunteer Photos
- Young girl
- This is a photo of a young girl posing for the camera. The photo was taken (using color accent) at a friend's house in Juan O'Leary, Alto Parana on December 25, 2010.
- Volunteer Photos
- Yerba Mate, Paraguayan Style
- This photo taken on August 27th, 2006 shows my wife and I engaged in the classic Paraguayan ritual with our favorite progressive farmer in our site in Paraguay. Sharing the indigenous green tea, yerba mate, with a communal cup is the universal way...
- Volunteer Photos
- Yearn for Education
- I took this photo February, 2012 in Carpuela (Valle de Chota) Imbabura, Ecuador. It depicts artist Alicia Villaba's view of the yearning and longing for a better education for the young Afro-Ecuadorians in her community. This power piece is made...
- Volunteer Photos
- World Map 2
- This picture has a volunteer and kids working on a world map in Paraguay on June 24, 2011.
- Volunteer Photos
- World Map 1
- This picture includes a volunteer and kids painting a world map on the library in Paraguay on June 24, 2011.
- Volunteer Photos
- World Map
- This photo was taken inside a classroom at a men's prison in July of 2008 in Concepcion, Paraguay. I organized a world map mural with eight prisoners who were working on achieving their high school diplomas while they finished their prison...
- Volunteer Photos
- World AIDS Day 2012
- I took this picture during the World AIDS Day march in 2010 in Ecuador. Many children, youth, adults, and local organizations participated in the march. This was one of the signs that the participants made.
- Volunteer Photos
- World AIDS Day 2010
- Local middle and high school students participating in a march for World AIDS Day, December 1, 2010 in Ecuador.
- Volunteer Photos
- World AIDS Day 2010
- A member of the youth group explains basic HIV information to his peers during a World AIDS Day open house on December 1st, 2010 in Ecuador.
- Volunteer Photos
- World AIDS Day 2010
- I took this picture of my youth group in Colimes, Ecuador after the World AIDS Day march on December 1, 2010. All of the youth include in this picture are peer educators who worked with hundreds of youth in their community in HIV prevention and...
- Volunteer Photos
- Working on our Balance
- Isabel works on the parallel bars to improve her balance during occupational therapy. Her peers cheer her on. About 30-40 children with multiple disabilities lived at the children's section of the Julio Endara M. Hospital near Quito, Ecuador. Some...
- Volunteer Photos
- Word AIDS Day 2010
- I took this picture during the World AIDS Day march in 2010 in Ecuador. Many children, youth, adults, and local organizations participated in the march. This was one of the signs that the participants made.
- Volunteer Photos
- With Host Family in Peru
- This photo, taken in 1969, is of Volunteer Jim Hencin along with the host family in whose house he lived in Limatambo, Peru. The family owned a restaurant/pension that served many travelers who stopped on their way to and from Cuzco, the regional...
- Volunteer Photos
- Where the Senorita Comes From
- The children spent a lot of time in my house, so I kept crayons and paper around. When they asked me about where I came from, I told them I had lived near Mount St. Helens, which had erupted a few years earlier. This is one of my neighbors and...
- Volunteer Photos
- Where the Heck is Helena?
- Traveling by taxi from the capital of Guyana, Georgetown, to my new site in New Amsterdam, I flew by this road sign. Helena?? That's my hometown in Montana! It's pointing in the right direction, but I reckon it's a village here. I don't recall...
- Volunteer Photos
- Where are we?
- Students from the local school in Piedra Alegre de Pital in Costa Rica show their country's location on a recently completed world map they helped create in the summer of 2010.
- Volunteer Photos
- Wheelbarrow
- This photo was taken in March 2008 in Santa Rosa, Paraguay at a regional youth leadership camp. The camp was held during one day where youth, ages 13-21 came to be empowered to become leaders. They learned skills, such as this one, which focused...
- Volunteer Photos