Introducing volunteer work to my students is one of the best ways to exchange culture. My students traveled 14 hours to volunteer at two Halloween parties I hosted for my new students. It was such an awesome act of volunteerism!
This photo was taken in December 2010 in Mozambique. My girls youth group was reaching out to vulnerable children in our villa who were living with and/or affected by HIV/AIDS. We made up care packages as an encouragement; stuffing hand sews sacks...
I am in the middle of helping create bathrooms for an elementary school of 200 students in Morocco. A boy who stayed after school to watch the volunteers work and a volunteer are sitting together on a wooden beam.
Special Supplement to the Peace Corps Times (August, 1991)-- Leadership Perspective: a reflection by Peace Corps directors of thirty years of volunteer service worldwide.