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    • Our Porcelain Goddess

    • Our Porcelain Goddess

    • Housing

    • After two years of service, Youth Development Volunteer Lauren Warchol knows to bring her own toilet paper to this bathroom in the government funded Social Services Center where she works in Ukraine. Not much more than a hole in the ground, but at...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Ukrainian Cooking Lesson

    • A Ukrainian Cooking Lesson

    • Host families; Cooking

    • Shortly after arriving to site and moving in with our host family, three generations of Ukrainians teach Lauren how to make varenyky, stuffed dumplings, which were then filled with sour cherries. A labor of love that is so worth the effort!
    • Volunteer Photos
    • My Host Mother

    • My Host Mother

    • Host families

    • I took this photo in the summer of 2009 in my yard with my host mother in a small village in Ukraine. Summertime brings so many fresh fruits and vegetables to the market and such beautiful weather after the long hard winter that it is hard to keep...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • My New Mom

    • My New Mom

    • Host families

    • My host mom and I at my Swearing- In Ceremony, 10-31-2008. Since the day I arrived to St. Kitts Tracey has welcomed me into her family. About a week into my stay she was "mom" and I was "daughter."
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Malika and Me

    • Malika and Me

    • Host families

    • Taken a few days before I was to finish training and swear-in as a volunteer in Morocco. My first host mother Malika was everything I needed her to be being so far from home. Here we are in the kitchen as we are cooking dinner and having girl talk...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Celebrating My Moms

    • Celebrating My Moms

    • Host families

    • This photo was taken in southern Morocco, in my site, which is comfortably nestled into a river valley in the Sahara Desert. In April 2009, my mom came to visit me in Morocco. I treasure this picture, sitting in between my real mother (on the left)...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hollowed our Jicaro (Hee-ka-ro) for Coffee!

    • Hollowed our Jicaro (Hee-ka-ro) for Coffee!

    • host community friends

    • This is a picture of a very dear friend of mine, Felicia, hollowing out a dried Jicaro Fruit, in order to use it as a mug for coffee drinking! They live in Costa Rica in the small fishing village on the golf of Nicoya, Colorado de Abangares. Her...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Operation Smile

    • Operation Smile

    • Hospitals; Celebrations

    • Dr. Sanaa Ademi and Volunteer Andrew Harris spread Christmas cheer to patients in Jordan during the most recent Operation Smile mission.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • HIV Workshop

    • HIV Workshop

    • HIV/AIDS; Youth; Youth development

    • Volunteer Aliyya Shelley giving an interactive HIV workshop to high school and university students in Guatemala (June 2009).
    • Volunteer Photos
    • From the Mouths of Babes...

    • From the Mouths of Babes...

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This is a picture of a simple poster made by a secondary school student who participated in a World AIDS Day parade in 2009, my first year in site in Cayalti, Peru. There were elaborate signs with tissue paper, paintings and glitter, but this sign...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Circle Reflection

    • Circle Reflection

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken at one of the HIV and AIDS Prevention Education Workshops in Asuncion, Paraguay. These workshops were collaborative efforts from HIV and AIDS education professionals from the Ministry of Health and Peace Corps Volunteers....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Way They Learn

    • The Way They Learn

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken in Capiata, Paraguay - a community located one hour outside the capitol. Often, it is referred to as a "dormotorio" community, or a place where you sleep, as the majority of the residents commute into the capitol for work. This...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Elements of Discrimination

    • Elements of Discrimination

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken at an HIV and AIDS prevention education workshop in Asuncion, Paraguay. The presenter is a professional educator who works with the National Secretariat of Children and Adolescents and had been working with this particular...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fun with Female Condoms

    • Fun with Female Condoms

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken December 1, 2011 in my village in Burkina Faso. We celebrated World AIDS day by giving a village-wide awareness campaign and condom demonstrations. Surprisingly, one of the volunteers for practicing with the female condom was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Jóvenes Contra el SIDA y VIH

    • Jóvenes Contra el SIDA y VIH

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo during the school parade that the Health Post and I organized for December 1st, 2009: International Day Against HIV and AIDS in Peru. All of the teenagers in the high school participated by making banners and marching to the...
    • Volunteer Photos

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