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This is me and a community member from 7 de Agosto working to make organic fertilizer during a workshop in the community.”
“This photo was taken hiking Mt Qua Qua during a week long sleep over camp to empower girls funded by a SPA grant. Grenada’s Camp G.L.O.W.”
During pre-service training, a few PCVs and I decided to take an afternoon hike through the lush jungle in our training village on our lunch break during language training. As we went along the mud path past waterfalls, cane fields, rice paddies, and vine hammocks we noticed a group of boys from near our language classroom following far behind. As we hiked, the dared to come closer and closer. Finally I stopped to wait for them, and they agreed to have their picture taken.”
“This photograph was taken at Calliste Government School in Calliste, Grenada. After receiving a SPA Grant for Little Hands - BIg Hope; an entrepreneur education program where students at the elementary school learned entrepreneurship skills through gardening. This photo shows the students of the 4-H club working in the garden.”
“During a Natural Science Week event that I organized on October 17th 2013, middle school students in Panama contribute to a communal effort to keep the community clean. They decide to make the clean up into a competition and work in teams to pick up as much trash as possible. It was rewarding to see as they take charge to make the event as effective as possible and to see that they are realizing that they can have an impact on the environment that surrounds them and on their peers.”
Peace Corps Volunteer Ivan Tellez has introduced a community-based environmental management program in Peru to collect recyclable materials and reduce waste.
(Source: peacecorps.gov)
Palm Sunday on Paama: after service, the kids pillaged the branches cut to decorate the church. We made palm pinwheels, watches, bows, rings, crowns and swords. A hundred biodegradable playthings.
My first Qunioa seeds are growing!
They scared me, they were planted a month ago and then nothing… but sure enough, tiny green life!
—This is a little project I’m working on with my friend Zoë, I gave about a teaspoon of Quinoa seeds to 8 families in my village and asked them to try growing them. The real goal is that people would be willing to eat this as a part of their regular diet, because its chocked full of protein and nutrients that aren’t a part of their regular diets. I’ll let you know how it turns out in about 5 months.
(Source: littlebirdsforyou)