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    • Seaplane Was Our Transportation

    • Seaplane Was Our Transportation

    • Transportation

    • Whenever the seaplane came to the island...usually twice a week, the children would run through the village announcing they had just heard it flying overhead. They would scream "Si bi eaa" for "Sea Bee Air" the name of the plane. The plane was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Burundi Volunteers with Dr. Jane Goodall

    • Burundi Volunteers with Dr. Jane Goodall

    • Animals; Environment; Volunteers

    • Burundi wildlife conservation volunteers with Dr. Jane Goodall at the start of a chimpanzee conservation and rescue project. Left to right: Kevin M. Doyle, Don Gay, Jane Goodall, Matt Criblez, Anne Bartlett, Leif Davenport, and Charlotte Uhlenbroek...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Farewell Party

    • Farewell Party

    • Host community friends; Housing; Close of service (COS)

    • There were numerous farewell parties for us as we prepared to leave our beloved home of Vaitupu, Tuvalu. This is a picture of our little thatched house in the background that kept us as cool and comfortable as possible. We loved to look at the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yazd

    • Yazd

    • Architecture

    • This is a picture of the rooftops of Yazd, where I lived, in central Iran - looking north, taken from a mosque in the Bazaar, Circa 1975.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Translator's Children

    • Translator's Children

    • Children

    • These are the children of the Kirundi Translator, Emmanuel. Although we learned French, out in the countryside they spoke mostly Kirundi. I learned some Kirundi but not enough to be able to speak technically. Emmanuel was very poor and I...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Basket Seller

    • Basket Seller

    • Markets; Crafts

    • This was taken at the Kayanza Market in Burundi. Almost every weekend I would walk from my house to the market which was on a hillside. I used to purchase baskets from the women who sold in the market. They got to know me very well and it was a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Scarecrow Made of Banana Leaves

    • Scarecrow Made of Banana Leaves

    • Host community friends; Environment; Wildlife

    • I knew when I arrive in the morning that something was up. The fish farmers were very excited and they said that there was something that they wanted to show me. In Gahombo they had a lot of problems with Hammerkops (birds) stealling the fish. I...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Crossover Training in the Field

    • Crossover Training in the Field

    • Host community friends; Children; Games

    • Natase and Shania are my friends, my distraction, my adopted daughters, my salvation. Jump ropes sent from friends back home are used as a cultural exchange. I teach them the cross-over technique and they fill me in on neighborhood gossip. Photo...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Charles and His Ride

    • Charles and His Ride

    • Children; Animals; Transportation

    • This 1986 photo shows my young neighbor Charles, stopping by my house on his way to "somewhere." Charles was one of the boys who built a weight room behind my old house. where he and his buddies now pump iron on their way to bulk and glory.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Temple

    • Temple

    • Architecture; Religion

    • Ben, a fellow trainee, took this picture of me in front of a temple across the street from my host family's house.
    • Volunteer Photos

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