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    • Desert Trek

    • Desert Trek

    • Animals; Counterparts; Terrain

    • I had the opportunity to take a camel trek in the Sahara Desert during my Peace Corps service in Morocco. Here, I am joined by my teaching colleague and friend, and other friends during the camel trek in the spring of 2007. I never knew there were...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Common Love

    • A Common Love

    • Animals; Host families

    • My host sister Liza and I cuddling one of the newest members of the family. This picture was taken May 21, 2006 in Trypillia, Ukraine towards the end of my training. I had become so attached to my host family I didn't even want to think about...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • American School Visits Ben Guerir

    • American School Visits Ben Guerir

    • Art

    • This photo was taken during a U.S. school group's visit to Ben Guerir. During the visit, the group of young people from Ben Guerir and young people from America talked, played games, and shared lunch at the house of a local youth center member. ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Los Multiplicadores de Los Limones

    • Los Multiplicadores de Los Limones

    • Celebrations

    • This photo is of the youth group in one community in which I worked, Los Limones. The event is of a graduation of the "Escojo Mi Vida!" (I choose my life) curriculum in which youth learned about Sexually Transmitted Infections, HIV/AIDS, self...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Pupusas

    • Pupusas

    • Food and meals; Celebrations

    • Pupusas are the national snack of El Salvador. They are made with corn or rice flour, and stuffed with cheese and other ingredients (beans, chicharron, ayote, etc.). Pupusas are eaten in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras, but El Salvador claims...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Candlelight Memorial in Morocco

    • Candlelight Memorial in Morocco

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This is a photo of the Candlelight Memorial for victims of HIV/AIDS that we completed during my service. It has been an annual event in the community each year since. Pictured are local participants in the event.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • HIV/AIDS Campaign in Morocco

    • HIV/AIDS Campaign in Morocco

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo documents work that went into the first HIV/AIDS campaign we undertook during my service. Pictured are the Volunteer and several local community and association members creating the ribbons that we gave to a local group of school...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • AIDS Vigil

    • AIDS Vigil

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken with two little girls during a vigil I organized with the Red Cross to remember those who have died of SIDA (AIDS) and to raise awareness of the disease. The sign, translated in English, reads: "AIDS isn't just a disease:...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Candlelight Memorial in Morocco

    • Candlelight Memorial in Morocco

    • HIV/AIDS

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Creating HIV/AIDS Ribbons in Morocco

    • Creating HIV/AIDS Ribbons in Morocco

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken by another Peace Corps volunteer in my region during an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign in Ben Guerir, Morocco in May 2006. The campaign brought a mobile testing unit to the youth center and included a community awareness march by...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • HIV/AIDS Awareness Campaign in Morocco

    • HIV/AIDS Awareness Campaign in Morocco

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken by another Peace Corps volunteer in my region during an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign in Ben Guerir, Morocco in May 2006. The campaign brought a mobile testing unit to the youth center and included a community awareness march by...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • La Vide da La Vega

    • La Vide da La Vega

    • Host community friends

    • This is a photo I took while visiting the family members of one of my community friends in La Vega, Dominican Republic. What was originally just an experiment testing out my new camera, turned into a fascinating portrait of Dominican "campo"...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Peace

    • Peace

    • host community friends

    • I took this picture in 2006 in the village of Karapashi, Ukraine, Kiev Oblast. This is the maintenance man at the village's bread factory.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Ya Ukrainka! Lera with Host Mum Maria

    • Ya Ukrainka! Lera with Host Mum Maria

    • Host families

    • This photo was taken in March of 2006 in Uzyn, Kievskaya Oblast, Ukraine, when I had been living with my host family for about a month. On the right is my host "mother" Maria, making sure I was properly dressed to go out into the cold to use the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Winter in the Village

    • Winter in the Village

    • Host families; Climate

    • This photo was taken during my training in Trypillia, Ukraine on March 6, 2006. The little girl is my host sister, Liza, all bundled up for her morning walk to school. It was one of the first major snowfalls I experienced while in Ukraine.
    • Volunteer Photos

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