1. St. Vincent and the Grenadines Outside Ms Murrel's

    This little girl was outside of Ms. Murrel's shop helping to sweep outside with a broom. Her mother smiles as the young child explores her curiousity of the foreigner with the camera.

  2. Morocco Through the Field

    Visiting my friend's site and talking a walk through the fields at sunset.

  3. South Africa The Girls

    Robin hanging out with the girls in the village

  4. East Timor Love and Handwriting

    There is not a word in English or Tetun, the ancient agricultural language of Timor, that describes how the Timorese teachers at out training feel about my handwriting.  All of the teachers turn in evaluations or the rare assignment they use an exquisite cursive script.  It looks like everything they write is an invitation to a wedding.  And here’s me with a fetid, scurvy, mush of letters better suited to tearful break ups and serial killers.   Horrified does not cover their distaste, la di...

  5. Jordan Standing alone, among many...

    One of the things the young women and I would do in my village was take walks through the rock fields. Away from the shabob (boys) we would sing and dance, gossip and laugh- really LOUD!

  6. Guatemala Mayan Educational Center

    This video illustrates the work that my counterparts and I are doing in site: building a Mayan Educational Center using the recycled bottles technique.

  7. Guyana early morning ride

    This little Amerindian baby clung closely to his mother on this early morning boat ride in to the closest market.

  8. South Africa Practicing Reading

    Kids in the library for the first time.

  9. South Africa Waka Waka South Africa

    Dancing in the village

  10. South Africa The math lesson

    Taking a break from sorting library books, Woody stops to give a math lesson.    “A quality education has the power to transform societies in a single generation, provide children with the protection they need from the hazards of poverty, labor exploitation and disease, and given them the knowledge, skills, and confidence to reach their full potential.”            ~Audrey Hepburn

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“Sunset at the Railroad” by PCV Nicholas Baylor Hall. Namibia, 2011.