While in Burkina Faso working on a World AIDS Day project, I painted a wall, taught proper condom usage, and had middle school students promise to live healthy lifestyles by putting their hand prints on the wall. Part of the promise that the middle...
Members of my women's association explained to mothers how to talk with their children about preventing HIV transmission, destigmatizing seropositivity, and how to prevent unwanted pregnancies. The group of 25 women met to discuss how to teach...
In Burkina Faso, my girl's soccer team practiced giving presentations on correct condom usage together before demonstrating their knowledge to the police officers of our community. As part of learning healthy living through sport, condom usage to...
This photo was taken during the HIV/AIDS Bike Trek in October 2011, in the small town of Badari, in The Gambia, West Africa. For two days, ten Peace Corps Volunteers partnered with a student and members of the faculty from Badari Basic Cycle School...
This photo of Nong (five years old) was taken in his hometown of Plong sub-district, Thoeng district, Chiang Rai province on Dec 7, 2009 at a community event near the Thai-Laos border. After both his parents died from AIDS, Nong, who is also living...
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 served in Peace Corps Mozambique from September 2007- November 2009. During my time, I started a community art group within the secondary school , as a branch of JOMA (a Portuguese acronym for "Youth for Change and Action"). JOMA is a nationwide...
This image was taken during a discussion on family planning and HIV/AIDS prevention in February of 2012 in a village 8 kilometers from our local hospital. Before giving a condom demonstration, we had a relay race. A team of four men and four women...
This image was taken during a discussion on family planning and HIV/AIDS prevention in February of 2012 in a village 8 kilometers from our local hospital. Before giving a condom demonstration, we had a relay race. A team of four men and four women...
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...
HIV/AIDS; Education; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD)
Women's Day is a national holiday in South Africa. From 2007-2009, my husband, Ben, and I were Volunteers in the rural village of Mokuruanyane, SA. My primary project was working with four women educators to develop Chrysalis Girls Club, an...
On May 16th in Burkina Faso my girls soccer team players demonstrated their commitment to their promise to help prevent the spread of HIV and other sexually transmitted infections in our community by putting on a proper condom usage demonstration....
I took this photo in Ben Guerir, Morocco as we prepared to begin the first annual candlelight memorial to remember victims of HIV/AIDS in May 2007. My students are lighting their candles as they prepare to walk out into the courtyard. They are...
This image was taken during a discussion on family planning and HIV/AIDS prevention in February of 2012 in a village 8 kilometers from our local hospital. Before giving a condom demonstration, we had a relay race. A team of four men and four...
This picture was taken at my local market, in a village in Burkina Faso. We were celebrating World AIDS Day 2011 by creating a mural with HIV/AIDS prevention images and explaining those images to the public. We played games, asked the audience...
This picture was taken at my local market, in a village in Burkina Faso. We were celebrating World AIDS Day 2011 by creating a mural with HIV/AIDS prevention images and explaining those images to the public. We played games, asked the audience...
This picture was taken at my local market in Burkina Faso. We were celebrating World AIDS Day 2011 by creating a mural with HIV/AIDS prevention images and explaining those images to the public. We played games, asked the audience to explain the...
This photo was taken at a school in central Swaziland in November of 2011. The students had been exposed to HIV messages for years, but this was their first interactive lesson.
The lesson (and subsequent lessons) were very successful. Students...
A Community WORTH group was meeting in the lowveld of Swaziland in Feburary of 2012. WORTH groups consist of 20-30 women who meet to discuss HIV issues and work on micro finance. When women are able to pull together and succeed, the OVC in that...
This photo was taken during a community WORTH meeting in Swaziland. This woman walks more then 40 minutes every week to meet with other women and gain knowledge both of HIV/AIDS prevention and micro-fiance. Well into her 70's and with five...