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    • World Malaria Activities

    • World Malaria Activities

    • Drama

    • This picture was taken in Cotonou Benin in June 2010 (late Malaria Day celebrations). A theatrical group form Allada Benin was hired to put on a skit about malaria. In this scene, the girl standing is acting as a mosquito and is showing how she...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World Map

    • World Map

    • Secondary Projects; World Map Project

    • This photo was taken inside a classroom at a men's prison in July of 2008 in Concepcion, Paraguay. I organized a world map mural with eight prisoners who were working on achieving their high school diplomas while they finished their prison...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World Map

    • World Map

    • Teachers and Students; World Map Project

    • This is a photo of Volunteer Aliyya painting a world map with her students in Guatemala.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World Map Project

    • World Map Project

    • Teachers and Students; World Map Project

    • Some students and I working on painting a world map in one of the classrooms at our school in Bagare, Burkina Faso in September 2007.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World Map Project

    • World Map Project

    • Schools; Teachers and students; Art; World Map Project

    • The photo was taken in March of 2008. My students and I were working on a World Map Project. We took a large wall that everyone walks past at the school and drew a mural of a world map. This photo shows us in the finishing stages of painting it. We...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Worokia and the Beans

    • Worokia and the Beans

    • Host families;

    • Samabogo, Mali taken on 10/4/2009. This is my host mom, Worokia, at my village going away party. I bought 50 pounds of beans and invited my friends and family to eat and dance. I admit we are all bean eaters.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • WWII Memorial

    • WWII Memorial

    • Statues and monuments

    • WWII Memorial in Samaulkol, North Kazakhstan Oblast. Nearly every family in the village sent someone to the front. Half of them did not return.
    • 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
    • Yaneth Weaving

    • Yaneth Weaving

    • Host community friends; Children

    • This was taken in 2011 (post-service) while visiting the Emberá community Ella Drua in Colón, Panama. Yaneth was weaving a traditional Emberá basket while her daughter, Vianca, and my son, Adrián, played on the floor.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yerba Mate, Paraguayan Style

    • Yerba Mate, Paraguayan Style

    • Food and meals; Host community; Host community friends

    • This photo taken on August 27th, 2006 shows my wife and I engaged in the classic Paraguayan ritual with our favorite progressive farmer in our site in Paraguay. Sharing the indigenous green tea, yerba mate, with a communal cup is the universal way...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yes We Can

    • Yes We Can

    • Children; Elders

    • The picture was taken by my home village, Tougouri, Burkina Faso. In the picture are my best-friend's mother (therefore MY grandmother) and my friend's son. The little boy is the smiliest and giggliest little boy ever created and his grandmother...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Young Love

    • Young Love

    • Celebrations; children; traditional dress

    • This photo was taken in May 2008 at School #3662 in Isla Tobati, Paraguay. This is a traditional dance that the students were doing for a Mother's Day celebration. The photo shows a girl and boy in costume during the performance. They are both six...
    • 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 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

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