In Lesotho, the village paths on Sundays are lined with ladies walking to church, all with traditional Basotho blankets (mofu) over their shoulders. Each blanket pattern has a name, linked to symbols of tribes or crops. The center blanket...
If you line up 4 year olds in just about any country in the world, you get as many poses - shy, silly, naughty, thumb-suckers. In the village of Mt. Moorosi (Quthing region of LESOTHO) in April 2007, though, my little neighbor was one of the kids....
In April 2007 I was doing school visits far from the main road in the remote, mountainous Tsatsane Valley (Quthing province, LESOTHO). This orphan boy wandered by the hut where I was overnighting. The neck of his guitar was an old piece of wood...
In November of 2007, in our training village in Lesotho, I happened upon kids on a path, who wanted to dance. Kids live in the present, so now's as good a time for any to dance. I like this photo because in my three years as a Peace Corps...
In July 2007, Peace Corps Volunteers in Lesotho cooperated with Professor Jane Hale and a literacy project out of Brandeis University to encourage parents to read to young children. This photo was taken in Maseru on a day when awards were given to...
I snapped this photo of first graders sitting on paint cans in Masia Primary School, Tsatsane Valley of Quthing Region, Lesotho, as I traveled as an Education Volunteer in April 2007, doing teacher observations. Their cute smiles show they are...
A wonderful Christmas tradition in hot December LESOTHO were dance competitions, where teens of two towns competed against one another for a title of best dancers. In 2008, these teens in Ha Makebe, not too far from the capital city of Maseru, had...