This photo was taken on November 8, 2010, in a port town on the Upper Suriname river, Suriname. Chris Rodriguez (left) and another Volunteer teach participants of an HIV/AIDS prevention training how to properly dispose of condoms. The training was...
From December 11-14, 2010, Peace Corps Suriname Volunteers held a Camp GLOW for young women who live on the upper Suriname River. In this photo, volunteers work with a local health worker to help the campers construct a food pyramid.
Photo by Ryan...
A young local boy and Peace Corps Suriname Volunteer, Chris Rodriguez, show off their red beads which were distributed and worn by attendees of a World AIDS Day 2009 event in Suriname. The beads represented the community's unification to stop...
I took this photo during a maipa oil mashing session in Toemaipa, Suriname on March 2, 2009. Toemaipa is known for its plentiful maipa palm trees, the fruits of which the locals eat and then use the seeds to make cooking oil. The seeds in this...
I took this photo during a maipa oil mashing session in Toemaipa, Suriname on March 2, 2009. Toemaipa is known for its plentiful maipa palm trees, the fruits of which the locals eat and then use the seeds to make cooking oil. The seeds in this...
I took this photo while crossing the man-made Brokopondo Lake in Suriname in a motorized dug-out canoe on January 28, 2009. I was traveling with the local Boslanti drum band, Jung Djote Bala, to a performance for a burial ceremony. The lake was...
I took this photo on the day that I made portraits for all of the children in Boslantie, Suriname in November 2008. These children are some of the most positive and energetic who I have ever met. During my two years living in Boslantie, the...
I took this photo on the day that I made portraits for all of the children in Boslantie, Suriname in November 2008. These children are some of the most positive and energetic who I have ever met. During my two years living in Boslantie, the...
This photo taken in Suriname, South America, depicts a Peace Corps Volunteer, Matthew Day, engaging in the traditional local activity of making Kwak. Kwak, a staple food of the Maroon Aukan diet, coming from the Casaba Root, and involves a long,...
This is Tamai, one of the older ladies in my village. Saramaccan women work very hard harvesting, cutting, and beating rice, the primary food in a Saramaccan diet. Even women Tamai's age can put an able-bodied Peace Corps volunteer in his...