These high school girls just finished dancing a typical kichwa dance representing their culture at an exposition in Tena, Ecuador. The dance competition was between rural and urban high schools in the region with categories such as original and...
This photo is taken on the Rio Napo in Ecuador. A leaf called 'barbasco' is traditionally used as a fishing technique, as it consumes the oxygen in the water through its natural toxins and the fish die. The crushed leaf is released in the water...
camps and clubs; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)
I took this photo during a GLOW (Girls Leading Our World) camp in Piura, Peru during February, 2010. A large component of this girls' leadership weekend was teaching about sexual education. Here, one of the girls from my town, Yocelin, practices...
I took this picture of Alvaro, who found a cart and turned it into a walker. Before this, he crawled on the ground. Just another example of how I got more than I gave in the Peace Corps.
I took this photo in Pomabamba, Ancash on April 1st, 2011 during a PEPFAR training workshop for Peace Corps Volunteers and their community counterparts. The photo shows two women playing the game "telephone," in which a complicated phrase is...