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    • Hard Working Woman

    • Hard Working Woman
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    • This photo was taken in Bhojpur, Nepal in July of 2007. The village sat on the higher part of a hill from the airport. It was about a 1 to 1 1/2 hour walk. This woman would meet the planes and either collect mail or luggage and carry it up to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Successful Potato Harvest

    • Successful Potato Harvest
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    • The agriculture minister was very delighted to see the results of the expertise that Peace Corps Volunteer Bill brought to Yo Creek, OW District, Belize. I took this photo on an educational tour of the potato farm for the locals. The minister is...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tools of Sustainable Agriculture

    • Tools of Sustainable Agriculture

    • Agriculture

    • On November 15th, 2007, I took this photo in my site of the president of the San Isidro farmers' committee, proudly displaying his committee's tools for no-till agriculture: a direct seeder ("sembradora") and roller crimper ("rollo cuchillo") for...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Installing bamboo outflow pipe in fish pond

    • Installing bamboo outflow pipe in fish pond

    • agriculture

    • Inland fisheries program in Sierra Leone was implemented by working with rural farmers to build ponds and raise Tilapia nilotica as a source of protein. A pond was constructed during training and a piece of bamboo was installed to serve as the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tilapia nilotica

    • Tilapia nilotica

    • agriculture

    • Tilapia nilotica is the fish raised in the Inland Fisheries program in Sierra Leone. I took this photo while Skip DuFour, a fellow fisheries volunteer, held it for me following a pond harvest in early 1982.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wind Is Your Friend

    • Wind Is Your Friend

    • Agriculture

    • Strong winds may kick up a lot of dust in the Far North of Cameroon, but the Kapsiki women here use this force of nature to separate beans and grains from there protective layers. January 27th, 2012.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Communal Plowing with Foot Plows

    • Communal Plowing with Foot Plows

    • Agriculture

    • This photo shows men preparing a field for planting potatos using foot plows. This was in 1969 in the Community of Pampaconga, Peru, where I provided assistance with a Peruvian Ministry of Agriculture counterpart.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Raising Chickens

    • Raising Chickens

    • agriculture; animals

    • I am checking on our young chickens as part of our in-country training in the summer of 1966. We built the coops and raised the chickens from chicks.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • School Garden in Costa Rica

    • School Garden in Costa Rica

    • Agriculture; Community development; Food and meals; Schools

    • I worked with 12 schools in Costa Rice from 1980 to 1982. This was at the school called San Francisco. The teacher and students were wonderful and worked hard on their vegetable garden.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Growing Trees for Fish Food

    • Growing Trees for Fish Food

    • agriculture; environment

    • Volunteers teach farmers how to grow trees with high nitrogen leaves which can be used to fertilize fish ponds. Rural Aquaculture Promotion Project, Northern Province, Zambia, Sept. 2001.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Building Tilapia pond during training

    • Building Tilapia pond during training

    • agriculture; fishing

    • For the Inland Fisheries Program in Sierra Leone, training took place at Makali Fish Station. A site was selected by the earlier group of fisheries volunteers and a pond was built by those volunteers and trainees and local residents of the country.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • San Jose Village Pepper Farmers

    • San Jose Village Pepper Farmers

    • Agriculture; Host Community

    • I took this photo at the end of a long day of harvesting and preparing the first crop of habenaro peppers. The peppers are in and on the two vehicles parked behind the villagers packed in reused mesh onion bags. The peppers had been the project...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Good Harvest for Adding Income to the Family

    • A Good Harvest for Adding Income to the Family

    • Agriculture; Host Community; HIV/AIDS

    • This farmer was taught how to build a fish and raise tilapia by Elizabeth as part of the Peace Corps' Rural Aquaculture Promotion Project. Here he has taken some of his harvest to the town of Isoka, Zambia to sell, tying one kilogram (kg) of...
    • Volunteer Photos

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