I took this photo at Mochudi Teen Club located at Stepping Stones International in Mochudi, Botswana in 2011. Teen Club is a support group for HIV positive adolescents, sponsored by Baylor Childen's Clinical Centre of Excellence in Botswana. The...
This photograph was taken of me while painting the hand of a student/neighbor to make an HIV/AIDS poster. The poster was used in the central clinic, elementary school, and high school while I promoted HIV/AID awareness and precautions. The final...
At my primary school in Burkina Faso, I collaborated with the teachers to teach the oldest grade level about the myths and the truth about HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and stigma. In the photo students are reading a hand-out before we began the...
This photo was taken in the main squareof a town in Ukraine on May 15th, 2012. The Chain of Knowledge was the culmination of an HIV Awareness project I did with the pupils of my school. Participants of the project went into the main square of our...
The photo was taken at North-West Province of South Africa in a school called Goakganya Primary School where Peace Corps had their permagarden training with PCVs & Counterparts. The workshop was held on the 2-3 April 2012 and the picture was taken...
Early in my service, I established a high school club called "Yo Merezco" that had a goal to create awareness and educate others on all that is associated with HIV/AIDS. In 2010, I was asked by the health center to co-coordinate World AIDS Day. As...
This was taken on the second day of our HIV/AIDS workshop for Village Health Workers in Vanuatu on May 28th in Pango Village, Efate, Vanuatu. Village Health Workers came into Efate from many different islands across Vanuatu to learn how to teach...
This photo was taken during an Alcohol and Drug Abuse Awareness Walk in asmall village in Botswana where I have served since June 2010. The photo shows a student holding a placard during the event which alerts young people living with HIV/AIDS to...
I took this photo during an HIV/AIDS-focused 8 day home-based care training in Mekaneselam, Ethiopia. In the photo, two home-based caregivers are drawing a map of all the HIV/AIDS related resources in their community, such as health posts, NGOs,...
I took this photo during an 8 day, HIV/AIDS-focused home-based care training in Mekaneselam, Ethiopia. Fifteen caregivers were trained using a Peace Corps VAST grant to provide home-based care to people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Ethiopia. This...
I took this photo during an 8 day, HIV/AIDS-focused home-based care training in Mekaneselam, Ethiopia. Fifteen caregivers were trained using a Peace Corps VAST grant to provide home-based care to people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Ethiopia. This...
I took this photo during an 8 day, HIV/AIDS-focused home-based care training in Mekaneselam, Ethiopia. Fifteen caregivers were trained using a Peace Corps VAST grant to provide home-based care to people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Ethiopia. This...
HIV/AIDS is a major contributor to the growing number of orphans and vulnerable children in Ethiopia. Many of these orphaned children live on the streets in Dessie, Ethiopia, without much support, and chance to live in a home or receive an...
On World AIDS Day on December 1st, 2011 the local primary school hosted an event in honor of all those with HIV and the ones who have lost the struggle against AIDS. These two bo-make (mothers) prepared the food for the community members as well as...
Picture of my host mother and me for the Mother's Day submission of photo and story. Photo was taken during our last week with our host family in Molepolole Botswana.
Photo taken with my host family (The Sebetsos) In Molepolole, Botswana in August 2009. I was visiting them during our In-Service Training. My host mother, Marea, is to the left of me. The others are my host siblings and the young children are my...
This photo was taken in a small fishing village near the Okavango Delta in Botswana. I am standing with two youth leaders whom I attended a 4 day training to facilitate a youth camp on HIV prevention, sexual health and gender based violence. ...
This photo was taken by me at the Wildlife Offices in Pandamatenga, Botswana. The area is full of wild African game and many of the animals are killed on the road and then are butchered where the meat is auctioned off to the local villagers. This...