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    • The Shkodra Owl

    • The Shkodra Owl

    • Signs; Art

    • This drawing was submitted to the Peace Corps Albania newsletter, Hajde! Hajde! in 2008. It depicts a Volunteer rendition of one of the local animals, a one-eyed owl kept safely dog chained at a popular crossroads coffee bar. The owl came to be an...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Mosque Faucet

    • A Mosque Faucet

    • Water and sanitation

    • This photo shows a local man from the town of Fier, demonstrating how a common outdoor faucet was turned into a tourist piece by building a model mosque around it. (Albania is one of the few countries to have a near balance between religions,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Volunteer Birthday Party

    • Volunteer Birthday Party

    • Celebrations; Volunteers; Architecture

    • Several Albanian Volunteers sitting on the remains of a Roman colosseum in Apollonia. They came from all over the country to celebrate another PCV's birthday.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Kids at Play

    • Kids at Play

    • Children

    • Estimates range between 76,000 to nearly 1 million concrete bunkers that were built by the overly zealous Albanian dictators during their communist rule. Here is pictured one of the many uses Albanians have found for the garish structures today: a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The 2009 Korca Beer Fest

    • The 2009 Korca Beer Fest

    • Celebrations; Volunteers; Food and meals

    • Pictured are Volunteers from Group 11 serving Albania from 2008 through 2010. One of the Community and Organizational Development Volunteers worked closely with Birra Korca to demonstrate marketing and branding strategies to university students....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Carnivale in Shkodra

    • Carnivale in Shkodra

    • Celebrations

    • Celebrating the local mardi gras preceding the time of Lent, Albanians in this northern city festively dress up in famously ornate costumes. This photo was taken after a fresh snowfall along the newly revamped tourist avenue (2009).
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The President's Welcome

    • The President's Welcome

    • Dignitaries

    • His Excellency Hamani Diori, the first president of Niger, is personnally welcoming each 1967 Peace Corps Volunteer to Niger. The Volunteer welcome included a dinner with the President, the First Lady, other government officials, several embassy...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dacia with Daily Bread

    • Dacia with Daily Bread

    • Food and meals; Pre-service training (PST)

    • Close to the apartment where I lived in Arad, the driver in this classic Dacia had fallen asleep. In the back were loaves of bread. During in-service training I stayed with a host family in Ploiesti (I felt I was the luckiest of Volunteers to have...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Baptist School Students

    • Baptist School Students

    • Children

    • I had left my camera back in the US when I left to volunteer in Romania. There I acquired an old Russian Zorky-C rangefinder camera and an old very bulky medium format German camera. This picture of students was taken at one of the schools where I...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Rocket Project Accomplished

    • A Rocket Project Accomplished

    • Youth development; Secondary projects

    • A fellow Volunteer, Bruce, was placed in Eastern Slovakia and helped school children with making model rockets. It was successful and this photo is of those children with him in the front row.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Old Man on Icy Sidewalk

    • Old Man on Icy Sidewalk

    • Elders; Host community

    • In the city of Arad, on my way to the after school program run my the orphanage where I worked, I saw this older gentleman carefully balancing on the icy sidewalk.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Young Bride

    • Young Bride

    • Weddings; Youth

    • After the first year of service, I moved to a new apartment that had been occupied by a former Volunteer. She had left in one of the closets a few blankets. Another Volunteer in Arad and I decided to bring those blankets to a very poor family that...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • At the local market

    • At the local market

    • Elders

    • This all began early after I started to work for an orphanage as an arts and crafts instructor/ English teacher. I would buy my fruits, cheese, vegetables and bread at the local "piaČ›a" or market. In the front by the street sidewalk was also a...
    • Volunteer Photos

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