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- Education for a AIDs-Free Generation
- HIV/AIDS
- This photo was taken inside a classroom at Mashai Primary School, in the remote mountains of Lesotho. It's estimated that 23% of the population of Lesotho is infected with HIV/AIDS. At Mashai Primary School 1/3 of the students are orphans. ...
- Volunteer Photos
- Remote HIV Outreach
- HIV/AIDS
- Hike to a remote village in the mountains near Mokhotlong, Lesotho. Peace Corps volunteers assisted organization Touching Tiny Lives in identifying mothers and children with HIV/AIDS in the most remote areas of Lesotho. Volunteers provided...
- Volunteer Photos
- Preventing Mother to Child Transmission of HIV
- HIV/AIDS
- This mother was one of the first women in my village to receive PMTC (Preventing Mother to Child Transmission) treatments. She is HIV positive and her baby Ausi Bonolo was born HIV negative. This photo was taken in the remote mountainous Thaba...
- Volunteer Photos
- A Mayor's Message of Prevention
- HIV/AIDS
- I took this photo walking home through Guayaquil on November 30th, 2009. I had been working late in anticipation of the launch of a new campaign to raise public awareness of HIV by my counterpart organization, Fundación VIHDA, the next day in the...
- Volunteer Photos
- Testing the Innocent
- HIV/AIDS
- 3-18-08, Tanzania. A man arrived at the HIV testing site & asked if his 4 year old son could be tested. We only test adults but he said that the son was born in a rough environment. This indirectness implies that the parents are infected. The nurse...
- Volunteer Photos
- HIV Prayer Flags
- HIV/AIDS
- I worked with HIV support groups in the Mashai River Valley in Lesotho to make "prayer flags" for HIV/AIDS. We went around to remote schools in the mountainous district of Thaba Tseka to ask students and teachers to create messages of hope about...
- Volunteer Photos
- Peace Corps Mongolia World Aids Day at the School of Nursing in Ulaanbaatar
- HIV/AIDS
- This photo was taken at the school of nursing in Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia on December 2nd, 2009. My counterparts and I wrote a grant to a local agency asking for condoms and educational materials. We received them plus t-shirts and each of my...
- Volunteer Photos
- Lesotho Cemetery
- HIV/AIDS
- This cemetery full of small, child-sized graves is a common sight in Lesotho where over 20% of the population is infected with HIV/AIDS. Volunteers in Peace Corps Lesotho are working with mothers and village health care workers in Lesotho to help...
- Volunteer Photos
- Education
- HIV/AIDS
- I took this photo walking to St. Theresa Primary School in Lesotho. Lesotho has one of the highest HIV/AIDS rates in the world. Primary education is free, but only goes up to 5th grad. Education is a key in helping Lesotho have an HIV/AIDS-free...
- Volunteer Photos
- Besame
- HIV/AIDS
- A group of trained peer-educators made signs for the 2008 World AIDS Day parade in Sonaguera, Honduras. This youth's sign says "Kiss me! HIV is not transmitted by kissing."
- Volunteer Photos
- Azime 2
- HIV/AIDS; Youth; Gardens; Agriculture
- This photo was taken during my trip to Crimea, Ukraine, to visit some local Volunteers. The girl in this picture is Azime, a Crimean Tatar 12 year old. The photo shows her proudly showing her parents' crops. Azime lives in a little town far away...
- Volunteer Photos
- Taking out the Trash
- Environment
- This photo was taken in the village of Dihovo where all of PC Macedonia teamed up to help with a trash cleanup. We cleaned for 2 days and picked up over 30 tons of trash from the river and its banks! We pulled everything imaginable out of this...
- Volunteer Photos
- The Moroz, Yavlenka, Kazakhstan
- Weather
- I took this picture in January 2008 in Kazakhstan. The Moroz (Frost) in Kazakhstan could get down to deathly temperatures, but at the same time it could be one of the most amazing and beautiful scenery to encounter. When the Moroz would set in on...
- Volunteer Photos
- Celebrating Independence Day
- Celebrations; Youth; Anniversaries; Schools; Crafts
- I took this photo during my first few weeks teaching 3rd and 4th grade elementary school in Belize. Our indigenous K'ekchi Maya students were making homemade flags celebrating Belize's 25th year as an independent nation.
- Volunteer Photos
- Lake Bunyoni
- Terrain; Site
- This photo was taken during an Easter vacation to the southwest of Uganda. Lake Bunyoni is Africa's second deepest lake.
- Volunteer Photos
- Landing Site
- Fishing; Host community
- This photo was taken at a landing site in Uganda. This landing site is a busy area on the shores of Lake Victoria where fisherman and fishing boats populate the area.
- Volunteer Photos
- Gallo Pinto, Peace Corps Style
- Food and meals
- This is my version of Costa Rica's most traditional breakfast, gallo pinto. Gallo pinto literally means "speckled rooster", and this dish gets its name from its speckled appearance of the two main ingredients, beans and rice. The dish also includes...
- Volunteer Photos
- Happy Hour
- Food and meals; Host community
- I took this photo during a walk through my village in Uganda. The gentleman are enjoying 'local brew'. A warm millet beer.
- Volunteer Photos
- 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
- Comida Tipica
- Food and meals
- In the Dominican Republic, the lunch time standard is rice and beans, possibly some meat. Tostones are fried plantains (shown on the back of the plate).
- Volunteer Photos