Volunteer Aliyya Shelley teaching life skills in a rural community in the Western Highlands of Guatemala. In this class, she is teaching prevention to HIV.
A group of youth holding pamphlets containing information about HIV/AIDS distributed during the second HIV/AIDS community awareness campaign we completed during my service.
This photo was taken on May 22, 2011 during a soccer tournament. Honduras Peace Corps Youth Development Volunteer Ashley Bass was giving a "charla," or chat, about the proper use of a condom to a large group of men ages 15-15 during a break in a...
This is a photo of Dominican youth playing 'Find the Ball,' a game from the HIV prevention initiative Deportes para la Vida. Youth pass a ball from one another behind their backs in order to see if they can guess where it stops. The ball...
This photo was taken on December 1st, 2011 at a PEPFAR funded HIV awareness event in the Volunteer's town square. You can plainly see the large poster made by students at a secondary school and a teenage girl talking about their project.
This picture was taken in Svoboda, Bulgaria during a prevention and awareness fund raising project in 2011. The kids were baking AIDS awareness ribbon cookies by hand, and loving every second of it. The village of Svoboda is small, and consists of...
This photo was taken during an HIV/AIDS awareness fundraising project. The kids in my volunteer club called, Together We Can Succeed, were baking AIDS ribbon cookies to sell for materials for more prevention projects. All of the cookies were hand...
This is a photo taken of club Superman in Dominican Republic. The group is for young boys and is facilitated by a local teenager, Victor. He is a wonderful role model and facilitates HIV prevention games that are taught in the Deportes para la...
This is a photo of the Candlelight Memorial for victims of HIV/AIDS that we completed during my service. It has been an annual event in the community each year since. Pictured are local participants in the event.
This photo documents work that went into the first HIV/AIDS campaign we undertook during my service. Pictured are the Volunteer and several local community and association members creating the ribbons that we gave to a local group of school...
This photo was taken during a HIV/AIDS community awareness campaign in Ben Guerir, Morocco. Pictured are the Volunteer and three local participants in the campaign. It was the first HIV/AIDS awareness activity of many that we accomplished during...
This photo was taken with two little girls during a vigil I organized with the Red Cross to remember those who have died of SIDA (AIDS) and to raise awareness of the disease. The sign, translated in English, reads: "AIDS isn't just a disease:...
This photo was taken December 3, 2011 during an event to mark the observance of World AIDS Day. This little girl attended the event, which included a candlelight vigil, a skit competition and informational session on SIDA. A group of young people...
The women at the literacy association where I worked made this cake as part of the World AIDS Day celebration that we held on Dec. 1, 2011 in Morocco. The event featured a SIDA skit competition, a candlelight vigil, and informational session about...
I took this photo during an HIV/AIDS prevention session at the Kingston YMCA in Kingston, Jamaica on April 23, 2012. This picture shows a group of boys raising their hand to true or false statements related to HIV/AIDS prevention.
I took this photo in Ben Guerir, Morocco during the first annual candlelight memorial to remember victims of HIV/AIDS in May 2007. The event was the result of a participatory planning process. The picture illustrates the excitement and solidarity...
This photo was taken by another Peace Corps volunteer in my region during an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign in Ben Guerir, Morocco in May 2006. The campaign brought a mobile testing unit to the youth center and included a community awareness march by...
This photo was taken by another Peace Corps volunteer in my region during an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign in Ben Guerir, Morocco in May 2006. The campaign brought a mobile testing unit to the youth center and included a community awareness march by...