This photo was taken in Bhojpur, Nepal in July of 2007. The village sat on the higher part of a hill from the airport. It was about a 1 to 1 1/2 hour walk. This woman would meet the planes and either collect mail or luggage and carry it up to...
Susy-s Sports Club constructing basketball court in the plaza of Quesada.The girls played weekly in town and sometimes visited other towns that had Peace Corps Volunteer initiated sports clubs during 1963-1965.
This is a rice field I snapped a picture of one hot day when the teacher's took an afternoon trip to the waterfall. You can see just see a farmer near his barn in the middle of the field.
Another teacher took this photo of myself, students and some other teachers preparing for the Loy Krathong festival in Thailand in my village. We are making a krathong for the parade later in the evening. We are using banana leaves and flowers. ...
Shown here is the entire village in Bankonglom, Wieng Haeng, bringing donations to the temple at the end of the road. The students from the Bankonglom School are in the pink shirts closest to the camera with a teacher in a blue shirt. The temple...
I am doing practice writing classes for the students before the Write On contest, which will be February 12th at our high school in the Philippines. They write in the library. When this picture was taken there were 11 students; we are up to 14 and...
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 Susan Poore opened a new community school in a village in Zambia. In this photo, we see her teaching mathematics while community teachers watch in the back.
I took this picture after school in Bankonglom. Some of the students that live near the school and teachers at the school play games when it isn't too hot. After badminton and soccer the students are just hanging around in the cool of the late...
Wieng Haeng, Chiang Mai Thailand in 2006. Teaching a special English class to the monks at the temple down the road from my house. I had two male Thai teachers there to help me so I didn't have to walk around the room and possibly touch the...
I took this picture early in the morning while taking a visiting fellow Volunteer to the bus stop at my site. The building on the left-hand side is a small general store. The mountains in the distance are Myanmar.