During Camp GLOW, we had these Moldovan girls play a game visually demonstrating how HIV is transmitted from person to person. The girls had a lot of fun and learned a lot about protecting themselves and the truth about HIV & AIDS.
Taken in San Luis Potosi, Mexico with 6 Peace Corps volunteers (Martha, Elizabeth, Paul, Gerry, Charles and Juliet) on June 27th, 2010. We were watching the Mexico/Argentina game in an Irish Pub.
Photo taken during school leave in August 2, 2011 in a village in Ghana. During each school leave, there is a designated game that is played tournament style. On this particular day, I saw at least 7 oware boards dug in the ground in two separate...
Games; Sports; Schools; Teachers and students; Celebrations
This photo was taken in the last hours of Waterberg Primary School's Annual Athletics event. Students, divided into red and blue teams, participate in track and field events all day in a field just outside of the school grounds. Here, a 5th grade...
Kazakh horsemen participate in a game of Kokpar during the Nauryz celebration to mark the beginning of Spring. Two teams attempt to take possession of a headless goat carcass and drop it in a goal on their side of the field. The field was muddy...
Easter 2010 in Thailand -- a slight modification to pin the tail on the donkey to pin the tail on the water buffalo. When translated, the sign says "Water buffalo, where is your tail?"
I took this photo during a community project on April 27, 2011, in Albania. The community project was a field day during the second half of the school day and feature several events including the sack race. The photo shows two girls and one boy...
Full text of Who's Who in the Peace Corps--Washington, which includes staff bios of many of the founding staff members of the Peace Corps. Approximate date of publication is 1963.
This photo was taken on July 5, 2011 at my training site in Mongolia. The boy in the photo is just crossing the finish line of the children's horse race at the ancient Nadaam Festival celebrated every summer, and he looked directly at my camera,...
Hand-me-downs are big in Peace Corps and thats exactly how I go this parachute. I used it for my 3rd graders English Club as a reward for good behavior. This is the mushroom game which in involves team work to get the parachute to take on the shape...
This photo was taken in 1969 in a town just northwest of Zorzor on the main road. I was on my way to Monrovia when our money bus stopped to pick up more passengers at this little town. The young boy was very proud of his creation. Notice the...
At a primary school in Guyana, I would often tell the students in my phonics class that "lots of times we read and sometimes we dance." This was a day when we chose to dance in front of the school during an assembly in 2011.