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- 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
- Young Zambian Boy
- Children
- This photo was taken in September 2010 during our celebration of induction into Peace Corps Zambia. I was trying to take photos of the dancers behind this boy, but the constant gazing of his eyes drew my lens to focus on him. My favorite part of...
- Volunteer Photos
- You Are Most Welcome!
- Elders; Celebrations;
- Lizzy is welcomed to her village in the northern region of Ghana in July of 2009.
- Volunteer Photos
- World Map 1
- World map project; Teachers and students
- This picture includes a volunteer and kids painting a world map on the library in Paraguay on June 24, 2011.
- Volunteer Photos
- World AIDS Day Wall and HIV Transmission Avoidance Presentation
- HIV/AIDS
- 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...
- Volunteer Photos
- World AIDS Day Mural
- HIV/AIDS
- 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...
- Volunteer Photos
- World Aids Day 2011
- HIV/AIDS
- This photo was taken during a World Aids Day observance in Lovech, Bulgaria in 2011. Youth volunteers from the Bulgarian Red Cross spent the afternoon passing out brochures, condoms, etc. in the Lovech city center. The event culminated with the...
- Volunteer Photos
- World AIDS Day 2007 in Galilaya, Uganda
- HIV/AIDS
- Galilaya is a fishing village located on Lake Kyoga at one of the northern most points in Kayunga District. Makerere University Walter Reed Project (MUWRP) collaborated with a Peace Corps Volunteer, Katherine Peters to do HIV education in Kayunga...
- Volunteer Photos
- World AIDS 2010 Day Media Event
- HIV/AIDS; Media coverage
- This photo was taken during the West Regional Project in Bafoussam, Cameroon on World AIDS Day 2010- an event working with 22 Peer Educators. Volunteers and host country nationals met in the regional capital and paraded, passed out condoms (male...
- Volunteer Photos
- Working with Village Health Workers to Create HIV/AIDS Action Plans
- HIV/AIDS; Education
- I took this photo at the end of a week-long workshop on HIV/AIDS for Village Health Workers in Vanuatu. Throughout the week we trained VHW's in HIV/AIDS knowledge and in tools and resources they could use for simple, effective awareness and...
- Volunteer Photos
- Working The Land With My Host Parents
- Agriculture; Gardens; Host families
- On the morning of June 18th, 2011, at 4:00am in Moldova, my host father knocks on the door to my room. I open the door, and am told "today we are going to work the land my son!" I was tired, yet excited. We then proceeded to walk about two miles to...
- Volunteer Photos
- Women's Association Explaining How to Prevent HIV Transmission to Peers
- HIV/AIDS; Maternal and child health
- 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...
- Volunteer Photos
- Where the Senorita Comes From
- World map project; Youth; Education
- The children spent a lot of time in my house, so I kept crayons and paper around. When they asked me about where I came from, I told them I had lived near Mount St. Helens, which had erupted a few years earlier. This is one of my neighbors and...
- Volunteer Photos
- Welcome to the Banana Republic!
- Markets; Agriculture
- Early morning, the owner of this truck (along with 7 others lined up) sells his plantains in the market place of . The amount of platanos produced and the overloaded trucks are quite a site!
- Volunteer Photos
- Welcome to Honduras
- Transportation
- The traffic in Honduras can be quite an experience. This picture shows the incredibly overwhelming sense that one gets when in the center of town. October 2010
- Volunteer Photos
- We Want to Come Along
- Children
- This picture was taken in my town of Arthington, Liberia as I was taking a taxi ( actually a truck that I was in the bed of) to Monrovia.
- Volunteer Photos
- Water Delivery
- Children; water and sanitation; Transportation
- Water came from shallow wells in the creekbed. My neighbors delivered two jugs a week - about 10 gallons. This is my weekly delivery of water.
- Volunteer Photos
- Wash Those Little Hands
- Water and sanitation; Teachers and students
- On October 15, 2010, Global Handwashing Day, I held a demonstration on how to use an old plastic bottle to wash your hands. The surrounding children are primary school students in the Educational Institution Fe y Alegria #70. The children continued...
- Volunteer Photos
- Walking to School in Pohnpei, Federated States of Micronesia
- Animals; Children
- An every day walk to school in the village.
- Volunteer Photos
- Waka Waka South Africa
- Sports; Children; Music
- Dancing in the village... Our host brothers and some other local boys excited to get their photo taken. After the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Shakira's Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) was hugely popular song in South Africa.
- Volunteer Photos