Peace Corps Response (Crisis Corps); Host community
I took this photo during my first week as a Peace Corps Response Volunteer in Calbayog, Philippines, on May 12, 2011. I was training a small group of staff members how to operate a video camera so they could document events at the orphanage where...
Peace Corps Response (Crisis Corps); Host community
I took this photo on June 29, 2011, during one of my multimedia workshops I facilitated as a Peace Corps Response Volunteer in Calbayog, Philippines. I came to Calbayog to train staff members of the SOS Children's Village how to produce their own...
Peace Corps Response (Crisis Corps); Host community
On July 11, 2011, my counterpart and I interviewed the director of the SOS Children's Village we were working for on the launching of the new Children's Playbus run by the orphanage. My counterpart operates the video camera while I monitor in case...
Peace Corps Response (Crisis Corps); Host community
I take a lunch break with some men working on the docks in Laoang, the Philippines. It is a hot day outside and, after talking with the group of men for a long time, they invite me to sit down with them and share a few soft drinks out of plastic...
I took this photo while visiting a fellow PCV in Laoang, Philippines, on May 14, 2011. We had both just arrived in country as Peace Corps Response Volunteers two weeks before. My friend wanted to show me the beautiful white sand swimming beaches...
While visiting a fellow Peace Corps Volunteer in Laoang, Philippines, we take a break to relax on its white sandy beaches. In the distance a local fisherman quietly pushes along his boat in the evening twilight. It is May 14, 2011.
After long day of working on our community hall digging up sand for concrete, we decided to bury some of the bothersome children in the sand on our beach. Pictured our Jo, who assisted in the burying and is holding the shovel, and the children...
This photo was taken in July 2010 with members of my host village in Natuvu, Fiji. We are performing a Fijian War Meke (dance) with a wau (club). It was done during in the past before the men went off to war with another tribe. If you look...
Although not really dead, these gentlemen decided to take a nap right outside our house on a hot day for the nice cool ocean breeze. It is common custom in Natuvu village that on Saturday the men drink yaqona or kava and then on Sunday spend the...
In this photo, I am weaving (talitali) a mat with two friends, Serema and Kata. We are weaving in their home in Natuvu Village, Fiji. The photo was taken in 2010. The mats are made out of a plant called 'voivoi' that the women grow and process...
In this photo, some children from Natuvu Village, Fiji, are burying rubbish. The photo was taken in 2011, during 'Natuvu Clean-up and Fun Day.' The village is rural and must manage there own rubbish, as there is no removal service available.
The...