Third Goal

Sign Language Club

I taught simple American Sign Language at the Family Support Center (formerly Save the Children). I was inspired because I had a student who was deaf in my second grade class last year. Her teacher would always take her out of my class because she said she didn't need to be there. I learned that she was deaf. I asked if she was learning how to speak sign language and was told that her parents did not want her to speak with her hands. Her parent's plan was to have her go to school until she wa...

EFA International Living Positively

Snack Line

The girls in this kindergarten class in Kantche, Niger line up to have kunnu (a millet based porridge) as a morning snack.

puzzling

in the Belizean village of San Jose Palmar, a soon-to-be preschool student tinkers with one of many puzzles while his mother looks on

New Year's Eve Fireworks

Two Years in Three Minutes

How I joined the Peace Corps--from Ecuador to Kyrgyzstan

  Up until the age of 16, I had no idea of what I wanted to be as an adult.  Then, in 1999, one event changed that and put me on an 11 year path towards serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer.  This is the story of that event.  I was living in Riobamba, Ecuador as a foreign exchange student.  I lived with a host family in a second story apartment on a street near the town’s market.  Every morning, after breakfast, I would sit on the family’s little patio outside the kitchen and drink coffee and w...

Health Fair Draws a Crowd in Northern Madagascar

Volunteers give health messages at a health fair in Antsohihy, Madagascar

Gardening in Northern Madagascar

A host brother helps with watering gardens in Northern Madagascar

Teaching English in Anketrakabe, Madagascar

PCV Dorothy instructs an English class at the CEG in a rural town in the North of Madagascar.