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    • Village Wedding

    • Village Wedding

    • Weddings

    • This picture was taken on July 16th, 2011, in a village in Bulgaria. Kay and Tyler are the bride and groom, and are accompanied by a few of the many babas (grandmothers) in this small village. Kay and Tyler met during pre-service training (PST),...
    • Vinegarville

    • Vinegarville

    • Business development; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD); Agriculture

    • This is a picture of some of the 25 women who are learning to to make vinegar, wine vinegar, and herb-infused vinegar. The man in the picture is the agricultural agent who is teaching them. They come every week from all over the valley. They hope...
    • Volunteer Delivers Condoms

    • Volunteer Delivers Condoms

    • HIV/AIDS; Education

    • This picture was taken on the path to a museum in Suriname on Jan 21, 2012. Several Volunteers came to the village to support a 3-day HIV/AIDS education event, reaching over 400 people in the area. This photo shows a female Volunteer from a...
    • Waka Waka South Africa

    • 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.
    • Wash Those Little Hands

    • 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...
    • Water Delivery

    • 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.
    • Welcome to Honduras

    • 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
    • Welcome to the Banana Republic!

    • 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!
    • Where the Senorita Comes From

    • 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...
    • Working The Land With My Host Parents

    • 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...
    • World AIDS 2010 Day Media Event

    • 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...
    • World AIDS Day 2007 in Galilaya, Uganda

    • 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...
    • World Aids Day 2011

    • 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...
    • World AIDS Day Mural

    • 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...

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