I took this picture during a wedding in Moldova on 7/22/2010. In the picture is a young man and two ladies dressed in Moldovan traditional dresses. Most weddings in Moldova will have professional traditional dancers dressed in traditional dresses...
This photo was taken at a local fundraising dinner event in Okakarara, Namibia on Aug 21, 2009. I wore a friends traditional Herero dress and am photographed with a fellow teacher. It was a great honor to be invited to the event with my other...
Each year on Francophonie Day, our school celebrates the culture and customs of the various regions of Vanuatu by dressing in traditional costumes and doing traditional dances. This is a picture of me and my fellow teacher who were dressed in the...
My host mother owns a salon where she does make up and coordinates the outfits for many weddings, cultural celebrations and other special events in our village. One night at home early in my service my host sisters suggested we all dress up and...
These nomadic Fulani/Peuhl women have come to Tchamba's weekly Sunday market. They are dressed in their best with beautifully embroidered colorful clothes, brightly colored scarves, multicolored beaded jewelry, beadwork on their head and tatoos....
This photo was taken in November 2012.
Me and a few local Ni-Vans were waiting for a boat to take us across to another island to attend a church service. The 'Island Dress' is a traditional outfit worn by the local women.
The midwife at a local clinic celebrates on her wedding day in Burkina Faso. The bride is dancing with friends during a Muslim wedding celebration where friends stick money on her while singing and dancing. People all around are using technology...
The school kids in Costa Rica, 1981, taught me the national dance of Costa Rica. Since I didn't have the dress, they taught me the guy's part - so I got to have a mustache. Then I taught them square dancing to John Denver's music.
My first Christmas back in America. I am wearing my teaching uniform from my Islamic High School in Indonesia. My grandchildren Talon, Kira & Arlo are wearing Muslim prayer caps and a jilbab for young girls. Grandma Oma Colleen Young is telling her...
HIV/AIDS; Health; Education; Celebrations; Traditional dress; Music
On World AIDS day the members of the local HIV group MASUPHA (Makete Supplies People Living with HIV/AIDS) marched in the villages of Tanzania. The group members and I were wearing Peace Corps 50th anniversary Khangas made by Peace Corps...
Dance; Celebrations; Food and meals; Traditional dress
This photo was taken in May 2012. My village had a week long cultural week where all the villagers seperated themselves into the 6 provinces of Vanuatu and did culture/custom specific activities throughout the week. My group created a local food...
I took this photo during the cultural day in 2004 at one of the schools I volunteered at in Mpumalanga, South Africa. It was a wonderful celebration of their culture. Traditional clothes, food, dance and music made the day so special... for me and...
I took this photo during the celebration of Namibia's independence. Independence came to Namibia on March 21, 1990. I was visiting a fellow Peace Corps volunteer (she's my wife today). The picture is of a few students wearing traditional Nama...
Koutialakaw means people from Koutiala (a city in the region of Sikasso) in Bambara, one of the languages in Mali, West Africa. Here we are dressed up in Malian clothes to go to the mosque.
Third Goal; Teachers and Students; Traditional dress
On Thursday, February 28, 2013 over 200 students at Oscar DePriest Elementary School in Austin, Chicago attended presentations about Lindsay Goldberg's experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in Madagascar and Niger. A group of the 4th grade...