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    • Education for a AIDs-Free Generation

    • Education for a AIDs-Free Generation

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken inside a classroom at Mashai Primary School, in the remote mountains of Lesotho. It's estimated that 23% of the population of Lesotho is infected with HIV/AIDS. At Mashai Primary School 1/3 of the students are orphans. ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Remote HIV Outreach

    • Remote HIV Outreach

    • HIV/AIDS

    • Hike to a remote village in the mountains near Mokhotlong, Lesotho. Peace Corps volunteers assisted organization Touching Tiny Lives in identifying mothers and children with HIV/AIDS in the most remote areas of Lesotho. Volunteers provided...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • HIV Prayer Flags

    • HIV Prayer Flags

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I worked with HIV support groups in the Mashai River Valley in Lesotho to make "prayer flags" for HIV/AIDS. We went around to remote schools in the mountainous district of Thaba Tseka to ask students and teachers to create messages of hope about...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Lesotho Cemetery

    • Lesotho Cemetery

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This cemetery full of small, child-sized graves is a common sight in Lesotho where over 20% of the population is infected with HIV/AIDS. Volunteers in Peace Corps Lesotho are working with mothers and village health care workers in Lesotho to help...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Education

    • Education

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo walking to St. Theresa Primary School in Lesotho. Lesotho has one of the highest HIV/AIDS rates in the world. Primary education is free, but only goes up to 5th grad. Education is a key in helping Lesotho have an HIV/AIDS-free...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Prevention sensibilzation

    • Prevention sensibilzation

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken in the village of Gbadjahe, Togo during my service there in 2006. This is part of a project in three surrounding villages that trained peer health educators. At the end of each training there was a village wide event where peer...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Camp Espoir

    • Camp Espoir

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken at an annual Peace Corp Togo camp (camp espoir, or 'hope' in English). This camp occurs every year and for children and youth in every region of the country who are infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. The camp gives the kids an...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Team Work

    • Team Work

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken in Togo, West Africa in the village of Pagala at the Peace Corp training site. This was a camp (Camp Espoir, or Hope in English) for children and youth who were infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. A large majority of the campers...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Besame

    • Besame

    • HIV/AIDS

    • A group of trained peer-educators made signs for the 2008 World AIDS Day parade in Sonaguera, Honduras. This youth's sign says "Kiss me! HIV is not transmitted by kissing."
    • Volunteer Photos
    • PROLIR Ladies on World AIDS Day

    • PROLIR Ladies on World AIDS Day

    • Health

    • I am so happy here! This photo was taken on World AIDS Day with the young women in the nonprofit I started, PROLIR. We had just performed a dance in front of the government officials in my town in Mozambique, Africa. The young women were so proud...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Delighted to Meet You!

    • Delighted to Meet You!

    • Dignitaries

    • BOTS5- Our entire group and Peace Corps staff met with His Excellency President Festus Mogae in his stateroom. His Excellency had our note in his hand (it was written on the back of a hotel 'how are we doing' questionnaire. He asked for the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Flavors of Traditional Costume

    • Flavors of Traditional Costume

    • Dance; Traditional dress

    • The Kuru Development Trust sponsors a Sans Festival each year. I attended the Kuru Sans event in 2007. In this particular photo, I was captured by the multi-generation of women performing and the integration of traditional costume and underwear.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dancing Between Agenda Items

    • Dancing Between Agenda Items

    • dance

    • During long meetings at Fanang Diatla Self Help Project, volunteers would break into song and dance. In this photo in late July 2011, Mathona entertains a room backed with care givers and other volunteers. Taken at the Fanang Diatla main office in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Youngster with Attitude

    • A Youngster with Attitude

    • Children; Host families

    • A young boy who is a relative of my host family was skeptical of my camera abilities. The photo was taken in the front yard of my host household in ga-Mathabatha, Limpoopo, South Africa, towards the end of my Peace Corps service.
    • Volunteer Photos

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