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    • Family Day Limbo

    • Family Day Limbo

    • Youth; Pre-service training (PST)

    • In this photo, taken September, 2005, local children (in Balibar, East Timor) are doing the limbo. Our training group taught them the game and how to beat a pinata at the end of training. There was also a mixture of their food and ours, a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Girls' Soccer Practice

    • Girls' Soccer Practice

    • Sports; Youth development; Women's movement

    • This photo was taken in September, 2005 in Same, East Timor. My wife and I and a Portuguese language teacher helped train a group of girls who asked us for their help to get a girls soccer team together. This was an important project because the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Bunica Welcomes Me to Romania

    • The Bunica Welcomes Me to Romania

    • Host community friends; Ceremonies

    • Just after visiting my first commemoration of the dead ceremony at the local Romanian Orthodox biserica, the bunica, who literally lives, works, eats and sleeps in her bucataria, gave me a plate of homemade goodness, a lovely bunch of garden...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Clean Hands

    • Clean Hands

    • Water and sanitation; Youth; Children; Schools

    • On Sept. 24, 2009, two fifth graders at a 9-year school in Fushe Arres show off their clean hands after an interactive classroom activity on proper handwashing techniques. Lessons were coupled with information on the H1N1 virus to encourage a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Preparing for Winter

    • Preparing for Winter

    • Environment; Life skills

    • In early June 2009, a worker uses a chainsaw to cut logs to length for wood stoves. In certain regions of the country, Albanian families order several cubic meters of wood in the summer to be shortened, split, and dry so they will have enough wood...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Flossing

    • Flossing

    • Youth; Children

    • On Feb. 15, 2010, Volunteer Patricia Hong and her counterpart Shpresa pose with a class of second graders at the Puka "Migjeni" 9-year school to show off their demonstration-sized floss. Students learned about dental hygiene, tooth anatomy, and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • New Additions

    • New Additions

    • Animals; Wildlife

    • A family of sheep look out over the newest layer of snow to coat the little northern town of Puka, Albania in March 2010.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Holiday Party

    • Holiday Party

    • Music; Celebrations; Elders

    • I arrived at site in mid December and was invited to an office Christmas Lunch. I accepted the invitation but the "lunch" was really a dinner and a huge party at a local restaurant. The night included dancing and singing by all. As I know now as...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Lighting the Way

    • Lighting the Way

    • Host families

    • I took this photo during the first few weeks of meeting my host family, July 8 ,2010, in Ecuador. The photo shows the joy we have in being together and learning through play. My headlamp on her forehead may be a symbol of the progress young...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Ukraine's "Cinderella"

    • Ukraine's "Cinderella"

    • Camps and clubs; Teachers and students; Universities

    • This photo was taken during summer camp at European University--my work site. My students put on "Cinderella" with some reverse gender roles to celebrate graduations and the end of the semester.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Coconuts

    • Coconuts

    • Children; Agriculture

    • A common sight next to an outdoor kitchen in Tonga. Here, a young Tongan girl sits among a large pile of coconuts. Coconuts play an extremely important role in the Tongan peoples lives from a source of food to potholders and pot cleaners as well as...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Temotu Volunteers

    • Temotu Volunteers

    • Volunteers

    • Five Temotu Peace Corps Volunteers at the Lata airport welcoming a visiting Volunteer (center of photo). Besides ourselves working in Agro-forestry, the other Volunteers were community education officers, provincial planners and health officers....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Papaya and Pineapple Plot

    • Papaya and Pineapple Plot

    • Environment

    • We planted this papaya and pineapple plot early in our service. It provided fruit for the staff and extra food was brought to the hospital in Lata. At our going away feast before we completed our service, one Temotu friend said "you did not...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Local Children in Our Shoes and Hats

    • Local Children in Our Shoes and Hats

    • Children

    • Most afternoons our house was filled with the station's children who loved to come in and dress up in our hats and shoes and dance around. We enjoyed playing with the kids and answering their many questions about where we came from and why we...
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