Peace Corps is famous for hands-on, experiential learning, so staff have to get down and dirty as well as Volunteers. In February 2011 Turkmenistan staff at an IPBS Retreat formed small groups to act out "machines." Here one group, with Health...
Volunteer Shannon poses with the five Muslim, Turkmen English teachers at his school, giving a glimpse into the diversity of experience that Volunteers give and receive from their service abroad.
Artisans; Crafts; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)
A friend took this photo of me during training in 2007 in Godkepe, Turkmenistan, at a women's carpet-making "factory," a collective warehouse where women came together to weave large carpets. The knot-making was not complicated, but time consuming,...
A PCV painted the photo booth cutout and all during the celebration young and old posed as a Turkmen boy, Turkmen girl, or PCV. In this shot is the Health Program Manager, PCMO, and Language and Cultural Facilitator Coordinator.
TEFL Volunteer Ilana in Balkan Region of Turkmenistan gets students to act out English actions with pantomime, Oct 2011. Students are wearing "tahya" hat" as part of their school uniform, with patterns unique to each gender and region.
This is a picture taken of my host family on the edge of the Gara Gum desert in Bolshevik, Turkmenistan. The family took me out to see the desert and we played soccer on the dunes.
Peace Corps Volunteer Andy (TEFL Turkmenistan) seems to have attracted a bevy of beauties to his after-school English Club. Young Turkmen women balance tradition, with long hair and hand-embroidered, long dresses, yet have a sense of fashion that...