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    • Staff Physician and Daughter

    • Staff Physician and Daughter

    • ACTION; Transportation;

    • This ACTION Peace Corps Volunteer working in Nairobi, Kenya is a staff Physician at the Medical Training Center. He also acts as an advisor to area health programs. He is pictured here with his little girl at home.
    • Agency Photos
    • Sugarcane Oxcart

    • Sugarcane Oxcart

    • Agriculture; Youth; Transportation; Rural sites

    • This photo from August 24th, 2007 was taken in my site of Ruta'i, Torin, Caaguazu in Paraguay. It is of a boy loading an oxcart with sugarcane that will be used to feed other animals.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Plowing

    • Plowing

    • Animals; Transportation

    • This picture was taken in the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in June 2010. I am helping plow the field for our Farmer's Field School. The man pushing the plow is Sai'du Haruna and the girl is his daughter Aisha Sai'du. The...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Charles and His Ride

    • Charles and His Ride

    • Children; Animals; Transportation

    • This 1986 photo shows my young neighbor Charles, stopping by my house on his way to "somewhere." Charles was one of the boys who built a weight room behind my old house. where he and his buddies now pump iron on their way to bulk and glory.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Water Delivery

    • Water Delivery

    • Children; water and sanitation; Transportation

    • Water came from shallow wells in the creekbed. My neighbors delivered two jugs a week - about 10 gallons. This is my weekly delivery of water.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Banana-powered Bicycles

    • Banana-powered Bicycles

    • Host community; Transportation; Host community friends

    • This photo was taken August 25th, 2007 along the Pan-American Highway near my site in Paraugay. It shows my wife and I joking with Paraguayans about how we get around on banana-powered bicycles.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Rio Paraguay

    • Rio Paraguay

    • Terrain; Rural sites; Transportation

    • I took this photo on May 16th, 2008 in Alto Paraguay. The Rio Paraguay is an active lifeline for the people of the region, but it was a picture of serenity at this moment.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yamaha Motorcycle 125

    • Yamaha Motorcycle 125

    • Transportation

    • Kinshasa, Zaire/Congo at Peace Corps headquarters. We were provided with new Yamaha 125 motorcycles, as fisheries Volunteers and we did cover a large area which required a bike. Later, I broke my ankle.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Zambian Crossroads

    • Zambian Crossroads

    • Transportation

    • It was a mid-afternoon day on May 2004 at Mpika, Zambia in the Northern Province. This picture is taken on the Great North Road at the junction that goes to Kasama. The BP Station is the only one in the district and a place I have spent countless...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Paraguayan Collectivo - "Jesus 100%"

    • Paraguayan Collectivo - "Jesus 100%"

    • Transportation

    • I took this photo Asuncion, the capital of Paraguay, on November 6th, 2008, during my last days as a Peace Corps Volunteer. It is a classic urban bus ("collectivo"), where the vast majority of people are nominally Catholic.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Riding in a Bus

    • Riding in a Bus

    • transportation

    • We traveled by bike almost everywhere we went. But if we had to travel more than 10 miles, we traveled by bus or train. This was a typical bus ride. There were lots of people wanting to ride the bus, so everyone got on that possible could -...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Typical Transportation in Peru

    • Typical Transportation in Peru

    • Transportation

    • This photo, taken in 1969, shows men who were traveling from Limatambo, Peru, to an agricultural demonstration farm. The truck, typical of ones that transported both people and goods, had a flat tire, which was being fixed.
    • Volunteer Photos

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