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    • Ferry crossing in Khulna Bangladesh

    • Ferry crossing in Khulna Bangladesh

    • Transportation; Host community

    • In Bangladesh there are many rivers to cross in order to get from one district to another. It is a fact of life for a country that lies below sea level and is crisscrossed with thousands of waterways. Most ferries like the one in Khulna pack on as...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Ay Baba

    • Ay Baba

    • Host families; Host community friends; Celebrations

    • Like many Peace Corps Volunteers before and after me, Seyni was my Baba (father). Being posted in Dosso, Niger where Seyni was the Peace Corps Program Assistant, I became very close to him and his family. It was a rare day that I did not hear the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Walking in the Corn

    • Walking in the Corn

    • Host community friends; Host families

    • Taken in October 2010 in Chivarreto, Totonicapan, Guatemala. My in-laws and brother in-law came to visit our village and see what life for the majority is like here in Guatemala. Our neighbor kids were so welcoming and loved spending time with...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The next generation

    • The next generation

    • Host community friends; Counterparts; Children

    • I returned to visit my counterparts at AFEDES in Santiago Sacatepequez Guatemala March 24, 2010. My counterpart and dear friend, Milvian Aspuac was married and had a baby since I returned to my site in 2008. This photo is of my son, Milvian, her...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Passing the Time Bonding

    • Passing the Time Bonding

    • Host community friends

    • This photo was taken July 10, 2011 in my house in Ecuador. It was taken in the afternoon after lunch time, when most of the people in my rural town are resting and staying out of the hot sun. The two girls in the photo are sisters, Juana (6), and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • La Vide da La Vega

    • La Vide da La Vega

    • Host community friends

    • This is a photo I took while visiting the family members of one of my community friends in La Vega, Dominican Republic. What was originally just an experiment testing out my new camera, turned into a fascinating portrait of Dominican "campo"...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hollowed our Jicaro (Hee-ka-ro) for Coffee!

    • Hollowed our Jicaro (Hee-ka-ro) for Coffee!

    • host community friends

    • This is a picture of a very dear friend of mine, Felicia, hollowing out a dried Jicaro Fruit, in order to use it as a mug for coffee drinking! They live in Costa Rica in the small fishing village on the golf of Nicoya, Colorado de Abangares. Her...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Peace

    • Peace

    • host community friends

    • I took this picture in 2006 in the village of Karapashi, Ukraine, Kiev Oblast. This is the maintenance man at the village's bread factory.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Supermen

    • Supermen

    • Host community friends

    • This photo was taken July 2012. My friend came to visit me and we were walking through my barrio with my host nieces. This is a beautiful view of what I get to see everyday.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mentally Handicap School in Nairobi

    • Mentally Handicap School in Nairobi

    • Youth development; Host community

    • A Volunteer is assigned to the Jacaranda School in Nairobi, Kenya. The school is for mentally handicapped and retarded. It is located in the suburbs 20 minutes by bus from town. She works with nursery age, mentally and physically handicapped...
    • Agency Photos
    • Visiting Children in the Villages of Machakos

    • Visiting Children in the Villages of Machakos

    • Youth development; Host community

    • A Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Social Services working on child welfare in Machakos, a town of 20,000 residents. Here, she and her counterpart, center, and supervisor, left. They visited children in the villages.
    • Agency Photos
    • Child Welfare in Machakos

    • Child Welfare in Machakos

    • Youth development; Host community

    • A Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Social Services working on child welfare in Machakos, a town of 20,000 residents. Here, she and her counterpart, center, and supervisor, left. They visited children in the villages.
    • Agency Photos
    • A game of Kings

    • A game of Kings

    • Games; Host community

    • This picture was taken in early April, in a park off the pedestrian mall in Bulgaria. The men in the picture were taking turns playing chess in the late morning, getting ready to wrap it up for the day. They had been playing all morning, laughed...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • "Hello!"

    • "Hello!"

    • Children; Host community friends

    • I took this photo during a morning walk one day in my village in January, 2011 in Cambodia. Though I frequent the same roads daily on my walks/runs I am still bombarded with children yelling "Hello!" at me. This is my favorite group of children who...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tangalala

    • Tangalala

    • children; host community friends

    • This little girl was in my training village. She was very very shy but loved to look at the pictures on my digital camera. If I brought my camera out she would peek out of her room. I took this in Navutulevu Village in November 2006.
    • Volunteer Photos

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