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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.
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Through the Field
Visiting my friend's site and talking a walk through the fields at sunset.
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The Girls
Robin hanging out with the girls in the village
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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...
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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!
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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.
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early morning ride
This little Amerindian baby clung closely to his mother on this early morning boat ride in to the closest market.
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Practicing Reading
Kids in the library for the first time.
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Waka Waka South Africa
Dancing in the village
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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
