Taking a break on a hot day in Rokupr, Sierra Leone, 1977. I had made my rounds to local farmers and stopped to pick up my mail and visit a friend over lemonade at the Titanic club. How hot was it? No thermometers, we didn't want to know!
This is a photo of Alphonse, the business adminstrator of the artisans' cooperative, with whom I worked very closely during my time in Mora. He save enough money to build a new house, with the help of family and friends in the village of...
I took this photo in 2001, while working with a community member, and good friend, Miguel. He works in the forestry and cattle industries in Eastern Honduras.
This is a picture of the village Iman (center), my fellow Volunteer, Allyson (left) and myself (right) in front of the health post we were building in rural Guinea. The Imam was my partner in the project and became a very close friend despite our...
Volunteerism; Small Project Assistance (SPA); Architecture; Host community friends
I took this photo on-site in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic on August 12th, 2006 during a joint project with the local Habitat for Humanity. The small project teamed Peace Corps Volunteers with local friends to encourage volunteerism within their own...
In the summer of 1972, I was inventorying the Middle Atlas cedar forests which included hiking to this remote village where we spent several nights. The two on the right of the picture are “city folk” whom I had brought with me from Rabat,...
It was 2003 and the end of my service in Mlangeni, Malawi. I had worked hard, especially with the youth raising awareness regarding HIV/AIDS and facilitating a rural volunteer counseling and testing program. All of these faces were a part of the...
Environment; Forestry; Work; Host community friends
I had this photo taken of me and my friend, Jonnys, during a community reforestation campaign in Macuelizo, Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua in August, 1997. We are shown planting a Mexican cedar tree. I had established a tree nursery and organized a...
My host sister Liza and I cuddling one of the newest members of the family. This picture was taken May 21, 2006 in Trypillia, Ukraine towards the end of my training. I had become so attached to my host family I didn't even want to think about...
Youth development; Business 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. Another Volunteer is assigned to the government farm cooperative of Machakos as administrative advisor.
This photo was taken July 9, 2011 in Tryavna, Bulgaria, with a group of four volunteers who were taking part in Peace Corps' 20th/50th anniversary activities. The photo depicts a team building activity we are preparing to perform, and I am...
This photo was taken on July 9, 2011 in Bulgaria, with a group of four youth volunteers who were performing activities as a part of the Peace Corps' 20th/50th anniversary commemoration. In the photo the volunteers and I are attempting to make a...
My wife and I surprisde our host mom in Morocco with an American type birthday celebration, complete with cake and balloons.S he was very touched by this and admitted (a little tearfully) that this was the first time her birthday had been...
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...
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.
I took this photo in Fiji in September 2006. I had only been in Fiji for 1 day. I got up in the morning and walked to the beach to watch the sun rise, soon after these girls saw me down on the beach and started running towards me, so i snapped...
Walking around my site during my second month there in October, 2009, I happened to have my camera on me taking pictures of all the new and beautiful things Shilla, Ancash, Peru had to offer, when I came upon my host sister (20 years old at the...
It was on my site visit, seeing for the first time the town of that would be my home for the next two years back in August 2009 while I was sitting and chatting with my host familia and neighbors. My neighbors' were holding their friends' baby in...