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    • Youth Visions HIV Prevention Mural

    • Youth Visions HIV Prevention Mural

    • HIV/AIDS; Art

    • This photo was taken during the unveiling of an HIV prevention mural painted in 2008 in collaboration with the students from Kongo SS in the Upper East Region of Ghana. This was the culmination of a six week project focused on collaboration between...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth Remember Victims of HIV/AIDS

    • Youth Remember Victims of HIV/AIDS

    • HIV/AIDS; Youth

    • Youth in Ukraine light candles to remember victims of HIV/AIDS. They are among those who are aware of HIV/AIDS and how to avoid it, thanks to the Peace Corps and its Volunteers who teach youth to adopt healthy lifestyles.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth HIV/AIDS Workshop

    • Youth HIV/AIDS Workshop

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo during the Makira Island Youth HIV/AIDS workshop on July 6th, 2011, on Makira Island, Vanuatu. It was a one-day workshop focusing on teaching the youth of the island about HIV/AIDS. The workshop was broken up into four sections...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth Film-Makers Against HIV/AIDS

    • Youth Film-Makers Against HIV/AIDS

    • HIV/AIDS; Youth development

    • During my first year living in my community in Nicaragua, I loved spending my afternoons working with a youth group making videos about the community. After a while it became too much to continue editing all of the footage myself and so with a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth Development In The Sun

    • Youth Development In The Sun

    • Celebrations; Host community friends; games

    • This photo was taken on July 9, 2011 in Bulgaria, with a group of four youth volunteers who were performing activities as a part of the Peace Corps' 20th/50th anniversary commemoration. In the photo the volunteers and I are attempting to make a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth Day Parade

    • Youth Day Parade

    • HIV/AIDS; Camps and clubs

    • This photo was taken February 11, 2010 on Cameroon's National Youth Day. The students marching are high school students who were members of Club Reglo, or Youth Club, in my post of Banyo, Cameroon. These students were trained as peer educators...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth Computer Classes

    • Youth Computer Classes

    • Technology; Youth

    • This photo was taken while my husband taught a Basics of Computers class to a group of young Basotho men in Lesotho. The photo captures him explaining the use of the keyboard for the first time.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth CAN Ukrainian Dress Day

    • Youth CAN Ukrainian Dress Day

    • Traditional dress

    • This was taken by my Ukrainian friend Alex at a two week long Youth CAN (Youth Community Action Network) conference in eastern Ukraine. The day's theme was "Ukrainian Pride" and the shirts you are seeing are called "serochkas" - national dress worn...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth Building Business Signs

    • Youth Building Business Signs

    • Host community friends; Volunteers;

    • As a Municipal Development Volunteer, I worked with a group of youth originating from rural and urban parts of the municipality. In this photo, an unofficial counterpart and I were teaching them how to make wooden signs for businesses in their...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth at Dance Performance

    • Youth at Dance Performance

    • Children; Youth; Traditional dress; Dance; Celebrations

    • Niueans love their fiafias (parties, celebrations.) The kids from my village, Avatele, are dressed here for their dance performance for a village celebration. I think this particular one was celebrating the accomplishments of 2 Avatele villagers-...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth

    • Youth

    • HIV/AIDS; Youth

    • This photo was taken during my trip to Crimea, Ukraine, to visit some local Volunteers. I don't remember the name of the boy, I guess he is eleven. He lives in Crimea, and enjoys his life playing football with his friends rather then wasting time...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Young Bride

    • Young Bride

    • Weddings; Youth

    • After the first year of service, I moved to a new apartment that had been occupied by a former Volunteer. She had left in one of the closets a few blankets. Another Volunteer in Arad and I decided to bring those blankets to a very poor family that...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yoga Masters

    • Yoga Masters

    • Youth Development; Girls' Education

    • Over the past year, I have been working with a youth club with the aim of lifeskills education and girls' empowerment. Part of our aim is empowerment through health and ownership of one's body. Every Wednesday after school, anywhere from 15-25...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yoga

    • Yoga

    • Sports; Pre-service training (PST)

    • I took this picture in August 2010 during my pre-service training in Cambodia. This photo shows a group of my fellow Volunteers practicing yoga during some free time in one Volunteer's host family's wooden home.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yi Teenage Boy

    • Yi Teenage Boy

    • Youth; Traditional dress

    • I lived in an area that was the capital of the Yi nationality. Although many Yi women are seen wearing traditional dress, it is less common to see the men in traditional dress. That's part of why I was so impressed with this boy's clothing. He...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yebo Gogo

    • Yebo Gogo

    • Elders; Youth

    • I took this photo in Naas, South Africa on March 23, 2011. The woman pictured is the grandmother or Gogo in siSwati of a client that I work with. Gogos have frequently become the primary care givers in a country where many children are orphaned as...
    • Volunteer Photos

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