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    • Creole Day

    • Creole Day

    • Children; Celebrations

    • This picture is from October 25th, 2008 during the annual Saint Lucian celebration of Creole Day. There is a huge celebration for all ages to commemorate the past. This is done by cooking in coal pots and wearing traditional madras fabric. These...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Host Mother

    • Host Mother

    • Host families

    • The photo was taken the summer of 2009 after a Birthday Party. We are outside my Host Mother's home. The yellow flowers were given to us by a young boy at the party.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Earth Day Clean Up

    • Earth Day Clean Up

    • Environment; Youth development

    • this is a photo taken on April 25, 2010 in Macedonia. There are students from the local high school that volunteered their time on a weekend to help pick up trash in a local park in honor of Earth day.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Meeting of Spring

    • The Meeting of Spring

    • Host families; Celebrations

    • On March, 6th 2010 a small village in Ukraine celebrated it's annual Meeting of Spring or Зустріч Весна. The subjects in this photo are Olexi, his daughter and Laryssa. As neighbors, they and others on their street created a float and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Meeting of Spring

    • Meeting of Spring

    • Host families; Celebrations

    • This photo was taken during a spring festival called Meeting of Spring or Зустріч Весна, March, 6th 2010. In this small village in Ukraine, The Meeting of Spring is the single largest public celebration held each year around March, 1st....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • My Supporters

    • My Supporters

    • Host families; Swearing-in ceremonies

    • This is a picture of the swearing-in ceremony. On the left of the picture is my host mom, Clara and on the right of the photo is my Institutional Point Person, John. They were there for me at swearing-in and they have continued to support me...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • My Host Mom

    • My Host Mom

    • Host families

    • This picture of my host mom, Clara, and me after a cooking together. Most of our bonding took place in the kitchen.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Manai Eej

    • Manai Eej

    • Host families

    • This is a photo of Dolma, my sweeter than peaches Mongolian host mother "eej", and me out visiting the Manchester Monastery over the summer of 2009.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • My Host Mother

    • My Host Mother

    • Host families

    • I took this photo in the summer of 2009 in my yard with my host mother in a small village in Ukraine. Summertime brings so many fresh fruits and vegetables to the market and such beautiful weather after the long hard winter that it is hard to keep...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Ukrainian Cooking Lesson

    • A Ukrainian Cooking Lesson

    • Host families; Cooking

    • Shortly after arriving to site and moving in with our host family, three generations of Ukrainians teach Lauren how to make varenyky, stuffed dumplings, which were then filled with sour cherries. A labor of love that is so worth the effort!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • My New Mom

    • My New Mom

    • Host families

    • My host mom and I at my Swearing- In Ceremony, 10-31-2008. Since the day I arrived to St. Kitts Tracey has welcomed me into her family. About a week into my stay she was "mom" and I was "daughter."
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Gros Piton

    • Gros Piton

    • Ecotourism

    • This photo is of me at the top of Gros Piton, the second tallest mountain in St. Lucia. The mountain in view behind me is Petit Piton.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Malika and Me

    • Malika and Me

    • Host families

    • Taken a few days before I was to finish training and swear-in as a volunteer in Morocco. My first host mother Malika was everything I needed her to be being so far from home. Here we are in the kitchen as we are cooking dinner and having girl talk...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Romania Journalism Camp

    • Romania Journalism Camp

    • Camps and clubs; Youth development

    • In August 2007, a group of Peace Corps Volunteers across Romania converged on Sovata, Ro., in Transylvania for a week-long journalism camp. Here Volunteer Matt Zdon helps students prepare articles for the camp newspaper.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Celebrating My Moms

    • Celebrating My Moms

    • Host families

    • This photo was taken in southern Morocco, in my site, which is comfortably nestled into a river valley in the Sahara Desert. In April 2009, my mom came to visit me in Morocco. I treasure this picture, sitting in between my real mother (on the left)...
    • Volunteer Photos

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