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    • Xinaliq Village in Northern Azerbaijan

    • Xinaliq Village in Northern Azerbaijan

    • Terrain

    • I took this photo during an excursion to the remote village of Xinaliq in Azerbaijan. My colleague and fellow ESL Volunteer, Ka Miller is in the shot as well as my cousin, Bob, who was visiting me from America. Xinaliq is possibly the most remote...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Winter in the Village

    • Winter in the Village

    • Host families; Climate

    • This photo was taken during my training in Trypillia, Ukraine on March 6, 2006. The little girl is my host sister, Liza, all bundled up for her morning walk to school. It was one of the first major snowfalls I experienced while in Ukraine.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Volunteer with Village Children, Ataa, Malaita

    • Volunteer with Village Children, Ataa, Malaita

    • children; host community friends; schools

    • This picture is of me and village children (mostly primary school students) in Ataa, Malaita, in the Solomon Islands. Ataa is in north / east Malaita and is accessible only by canoe. I took this picture during a holiday during a Nov 1993 visit ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Village Women

    • Village Women

    • youth; food and meals; traditional dress

    • I took this photo in Toufestelt village near my site in Ain Leuh, Ifrane Province, Morocco during the July 4, 2011 celebration that I shared with them. I was working with a group of 12 lakeside high school students from Seatle, Wa. who were there...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Village Wedding

    • Village Wedding

    • Weddings

    • This picture was taken on July 16th, 2011, in a village in Bulgaria. Kay and Tyler are the bride and groom, and are accompanied by a few of the many babas (grandmothers) in this small village. Kay and Tyler met during pre-service training (PST),...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Village Neighbors

    • Village Neighbors

    • Children

    • Three neighborhood children looking through the fence at the photographer. The picture was taken in 2010 in a village on the east coast of Madagascar.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Village Mapping

    • Village Mapping

    • Music; Celebrations

    • Brining American culture to the village. Fellow Peace Corps Volunteers come together to create a blue-grass festival on market day.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Village Health Team Training

    • Village Health Team Training
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    • Here, I'm teaching at a village health team training about diarrhea and dehydration and how to prepare oral rehydration solution (ORS). The village health team program is an initiative of the Ministry of Health to train local residents in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Village Friends

    • Village Friends

    • Children

    • I was visiting with the police adminstrator in the village on the front step of his residence. The village youth gathered around me and we were dissussing the day's school activities. The children were a very happy bunch and were quick to share a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Village Event

    • Village Event

    • Celebrations

    • Peace Corps Volunteer life includes a lot of attending local events and that means a lot of waiting...for the important guests to finally show up, for the speeches to finish, etc. Here's a photo taken of me hanging out with other community members...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Village Evening

    • Village Evening

    • Children

    • This is a photo of myself (taken by Volunteer Stephanie Lagos, and used with permission) holding Laciba, one of my neighbor's daughters, in a village of in the northern region of Ghana, around December of 2010.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Village Dinner

    • Village Dinner

    • Animals; Celebrations

    • In this photo, I am with the mother of the family who took good care of my when I was working deep inside Tazekka National Park. Here we are getting ready to prepare this goat for the Aid L'Kabir celebrations held about a month after Ramadan. ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Village Children and Me

    • Village Children and Me

    • Children; Celebrations

    • During one of many local celebrations, I took a photo with children in my village. The celebration was near my house and these were the kids I saw regularly. The picture was taken on September 27, 2009 in Batié, Cameroon.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Village Child

    • Village Child

    • Children

    • This picture was taken in 1971 while visitng a nearby village. Amazing that there was a place that had no running water, electricty or schools but yet the kids are the same as in any city no matter where in the world that they live.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Village Chief

    • Village Chief

    • Host families

    • This is a photograph of myself, my host father (on the left), and the village chief on the right. The village chief was 86 years old, almost twice the life expectancy in Mali. I was the first Peace Corps volunteer in the village, and he was...
    • Volunteer Photos

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