Third Goal

Business Simulations

Our Business group completed a business simulation with local students.  We taught them business skills, made products, and sold them all in a week.  All groups made a profit. 

Fan Making

A boy making a traditional fan for the school culture day.

My House

My thatch house in a village in the Southern part of Belize. Built by a previous volunteer.

World Map Initiative

Teaching using world map painted on the side of the school as part of the Peace Corps World Map Initiative.

Yo Creek Sunset

Sunset of Yo Creek Village in the Orange Walk District of Belize

2010 Swearing in

The belize 2010-2012 swearing in class of volunteers taken May 28, 2010 in Belmopan, Belize

OW Chess Extravaganza

Boys in St. Lucia

We met these boys while hiking in remote Belle Vue, St. Lucia.  They were helping their father who was a coconut farmer. While much of the island has access to North American amenities such as cable tv, Costco-style super markets, and wifi, these boys were the essence of natural innocence.

Cooling out at NSDC

Staff, employees and trainees alike viewed 17 and 18 December 2002 at the National Skills Development Center with great anticipation.  It was our annual Open Day, a chance to showcase our new-found skills and abilities to the entire community.  Months of preparation went into everything from each class’s display, to the layout of the presentation rooms, to the sequence of events for the two days.  We were bolstered in our efforts just a few days before the event when we heard that the Governo...

Lucky in Love

Sept-place rides were usually exercises in mental oblivion.  Two hours on horrible, pitted Senegalese roads was enough to make anyone fear for their safety, and my usual companions in shared sept-place cars were annoying young men brimming with marriage proposals.  I preferred to sleep or bury my nose in a book.  But one afternoon I ended up beside a pleasant-faced woman who introduced herself, in perfect English, as Anta. “I live in Kaolack,” she explained, “But I grew up in The Gambia.  Fa...