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    • Women Keeping Their City Clean!

    • Women Keeping Their City Clean!

    • Children; Water and sanitation

    • Another big part of the solid waste management project was the clean-ups organized at the neighborhood level. Generally in Senegal "cleaning up" is women's work. Men and children throw their garbage on the floor expecting women to clean it up. The...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Well Work and Field Based Training

    • Well Work and Field Based Training

    • Pre-service Training (PST); Environment; Water and Sanitation

    • This is a photo of a field base training that I set up in my village Koporo-pen. We were doing a top well repair and another Volunteer and I took that opportunity to train Peace Corps trainees as well as our own village masons. We brought some...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Water: A Gift

    • Water: A Gift

    • water and sanitation; host community friends

    • Water in Cambodia is not a sparse commodity, at least during the rainy season. My host family used the pool of water in their back yard to clean clothes and dishes, as well as jump into when they were hot after playing volleyball. Rain in Cambodia...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Water, Water, Everywhere

    • Water, Water, Everywhere

    • funerals

    • Two women seek out the shade during day one of a funeral in Pohnpei, FSM. Beside them are the several gallons of water there for the mourners, also seeking some coolness. May, 2010.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Water Supply

    • Water Supply

    • Water and sanitation; Site development

    • Running pipe, Aruliho, Solomon Islands, 1982. The women of the village were the movers and shakers and they were the driving force to get this water supply installed so they would not have to carry water up a very steep clay hill side.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Water Project

    • Water Project

    • Water and sanitation; Host community friends

    • Robert "RJ" Harper in Livingston, Guatemala moments after installing a water project with the local Garifuna community.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Water is Life!- Agua es Vida!

    • Water is Life!- Agua es Vida!

    • Host community friends; Construction; Water and sanitation

    • This photo was taken Aug. 29th, 2007 in Carata Peru. It includes me (center in red shirt) after working with locals to install a new concrete reservoir which would provide potable water to the community. The renovation of the system coincided with...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Water Festival

    • Water Festival

    • Children; Celebrations

    • This photo was taken in November 2010 Cambodia during the National Water Festival. In this photo three children are watching a boat race.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Water Delivery

    • Water Delivery

    • Children; water and sanitation; Transportation

    • Water came from shallow wells in the creekbed. My neighbors delivered two jugs a week - about 10 gallons. This is my weekly delivery of water.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Water Color

    • Water Color

    • Anniversaries; Celebrations

    • I took this picture at the Peace Corps 50th anniversary celebration in Stefan cel Mare park in Chisinau, Moldova in August 2011. The photo shows decorations of balloons on the right hand side, with the Peace Corps logo displayed on the stage in the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Water Balloons

    • Water Balloons

    • Anniversaries; Games; Celebrations

    • This photo was taken during our 50th Anniversary celebration for Peace Corps. It was held at the community hall (see the name on the building, 'Tranom-pokonolona' literally translated as house of the townspeople) at my site in Madagascar. The sign...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Washing Facilities in Haiti

    • Washing Facilities in Haiti

    • Water and sanitation; Housing

    • Out my second story window, you can see my latrine (orange door) and kitchen straight ahead and shower to the left. Some of the year, there was a water basin, but I treated the water with bleach because there was algae and mosquitoes.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Washing dishes, Haiti style

    • Washing dishes, Haiti style

    • Water and sanitation; Housing; Life skills

    • I'm washing dishes here on my porch. I had the neighbor kids get water for me and I washed with a soap powder that I used for washing clothes, dishes and the house.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wash Those Little Hands

    • Wash Those Little Hands

    • Water and sanitation; Teachers and students

    • On October 15, 2010, Global Handwashing Day, I held a demonstration on how to use an old plastic bottle to wash your hands. The surrounding children are primary school students in the Educational Institution Fe y Alegria #70. The children continued...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Waiting for water

    • Waiting for water

    • Children; Environment; Water and sanitation

    • A village on the west coast of Madagascar. It’s July 7th, 2011. It’s a Friday, around 10:30am. Not a time when there is usually a lot of people at the fountain, and yet, the dry season has started, but there should still be water. Once again,...
    • Volunteer Photos

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