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    • Isabi

    • Isabi

    • Cooking; Food and meals

    • My neighbors (Enna Bunda, Irene Chibwe, and Rose Mkupa) fry fish using a newly completed fuel efficient stove near Kazembe, Zambia in 2007.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Women Walking With Pails

    • Women Walking With Pails

    • Construction

    • Building a new home in rural Zambia takes a lot of time and effort. On May 30, 2008, in the small village of Chiposa in the Luapula province, much of the community helped to build a home of mud bricks and dried grass for a struggling family in the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tanasho Community Schoool

    • Tanasho Community Schoool

    • Teachers and students

    • Volunteer Susan Poore opened a new community school in a village in Zambia. In this photo, we see her teaching mathematics while community teachers watch in the back.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Coming Together

    • Coming Together

    • Celebrations

    • On Thanksgiving day, Peace Corps Volunteers come together before the feast. Hand on hands, we are together in our difficulties, our successes and our missions.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Walking To The Drums

    • Walking To The Drums

    • Dance

    • A group of Nyau dancers of the Chewa tribe walk towards the drum circle in Zambia. During the hosting of my first site visit, I booked the local dancers for the entertainment of the new intake. Although, I really enjoyed the show as well. August...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Seeing Through The Teeth

    • Seeing Through The Teeth

    • Traditional dress; Dance

    • A Nyau dancer of the Chewa tribe looks through the mouth of a mask as he performs at a local cultural ceremony. This photo was taken August 8, 2011 in Zambia. I booked the local village dancers to come for the first site visit I was hosting.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Draft Board

    • Draft Board

    • children; games; Host families

    • This photo was taken in 2010 at my hut in Fimpulu Village, Luapula Province, Zambia. Using spray paint, I made a "draft board" on my porch for the children to play on. Draft is a game similar to Checkers and is seen being played throughout Zambia.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • To The Sky

    • To The Sky

    • children; climate

    • This photo was taken in April 2010 on the Cheif's palace island on the Zambezi Floodplains in Mongu, Western Province, Zambia. Traditionally, around Easter each year, the Paramount Chief of the Lozi tribe travels from his palace residence on his...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Handwashing!

    • Handwashing!

    • water and sanitation; children

    • Taken at my site in central province, Zambia. These are two of my friends that come over daily using the new tippy tap I installed outside my latrine. They are so fond of it that they rub there hands in dirt when I'm not looking just so they can...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Looking Away

    • Looking Away

    • youth

    • A young Zambian watched as I took photographs of the various surroundings of village life. When I turned and pointed my lens his way, he quickly turned away, pretending he had never been looking at me. His posture and serious face in front of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Citemene

    • Citemene

    • Agriculture

    • Villagers burning a firebreak in preparation for citemene, which is the traditional slash and burn agriculture system. The photo was taken in Mpelembe, Serenje, Central Province, Zambia in 2007.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Roof Rethatching

    • Roof Rethatching

    • Housing

    • Adding more dried grass to the hut's roof to cover up leaky gaps. The photo was taken in Mpelembe, Serenje, Central Province, Zambia in 2008.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Catapult

    • Catapult

    • Children; Food and meals

    • Village kids use catapults to shoot dried balls made of mud at unsuspecting birds. Rarely are they successful.
    • Volunteer Photos

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