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    • Weaving Mats

    • Weaving Mats

    • Crafts; Host families

    • This photo was taken in September 2009 during Peace Corps training while I was staying with my host family. My host mother and auntie were teaching me how to weave mats on the weekends. I (Bina Contreras) am on the left, my host mother "Mama...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Gros Piton

    • Gros Piton

    • Ecotourism

    • This photo is of me at the top of Gros Piton, the second tallest mountain in St. Lucia. The mountain in view behind me is Petit Piton.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Classes

    • Classes

    • education

    • Kids would always love how I invented and translated songs from Spanish (my native language) to different languages. That would make them build better vocabulary. Also, they will also greet me around town in as many as 4 languages. So proud! Photo...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Gallo Pinto, Peace Corps Style

    • Gallo Pinto, Peace Corps Style

    • Food and meals

    • This is my version of Costa Rica's most traditional breakfast, gallo pinto. Gallo pinto literally means "speckled rooster", and this dish gets its name from its speckled appearance of the two main ingredients, beans and rice. The dish also includes...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Pupusas

    • Pupusas

    • Food and meals; Celebrations

    • Pupusas are the national snack of El Salvador. They are made with corn or rice flour, and stuffed with cheese and other ingredients (beans, chicharron, ayote, etc.). Pupusas are eaten in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, but El Salvador claims...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The First Cuy Sighting

    • The First Cuy Sighting

    • Food and meals; Markets

    • This photo was taken on July 17, 2011 in the market of Huaraz, Ancash, Peru during my Peace Corps training. Guinea pig, or rather Cuy, is a delicacy in Peru that I had wanted to try since I first arrived in the country. I took this photo because I...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hello

    • Hello

    • Food security

    • This photo was taken in Sitio Banawen, San Felipe, Zambales, Philippines during a visit to the Aeta community on December 2010. This is a indigenous community that were affected by the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in 1991. Yearly, my organization hikes...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Bata (Children)

    • Bata (Children)

    • Food security

    • This photo was taken in Sitio Banawen, San Felipe, Zambales, Philippines during a visit to the Aeta community on December 2010. This is a indigenous community that were affected my the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in 1991. Yearly, my organization hikes...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Kite Festival

    • Kite Festival

    • Games; Celebrations

    • Taken in October 2010, in Guatemala. There is an annual kite contest where teams of people choose a topic that represents the country and they spend 6 months creating their masterpiece out of bamboo and crepe paper. Each is displayed at the annual...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Kite Festival

    • Kite Festival

    • Games; Celebrations

    • Taken in October 2010, in Guatemala. There is an annual kite contest where teams of people choose a topic that represents the country and they spend 6 months creating their masterpiece out of bamboo and crepe paper. Each is displayed at the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Parachute Game

    • Parachute Game

    • Games; Children

    • A group of Elementary School School students play the Parachute game in Guatemala. All of the elementary school students participated in a day of games and activities organized by the local municipality. Children in this part of Guatemala often...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A game of Kings

    • A game of Kings

    • Games; Host community

    • This picture was taken in early April, in a park off the pedestrian mall in Bulgaria. The men in the picture were taking turns playing chess in the late morning, getting ready to wrap it up for the day. They had been playing all morning, laughed...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Girls Leading Our World

    • Girls Leading Our World

    • girls' education

    • These girls were my students at the Dar Chebeb (Youth House) in Ouled Berhill, Taroudant, Morocco. I would teach them Spanish and English and help them on their french. We established weekend hours to play, learn about health and talk about what...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Peace Corps Mission #2

    • Peace Corps Mission #2

    • Goal 2; Youth

    • This photo was taken on 19/07/2011, in a small village in the Rhodope Moutains, which is home to a minority population of Bulgarian Muslims and is a rural and poor area. These students are my 5th-8th grade summer school students who have just begun...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Club Foot Medical Brigade in Honduras

    • Club Foot Medical Brigade in Honduras

    • Health

    • This photo was taken in January 2011 in Honduras in a small convenience store where Ashley Bass (Peace Corps Youth Development Volunteer) is playing with two young boys - Janier Aaron and Marvin Maradiaga - who will be receiving club foot...
    • Volunteer Photos

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