This photo was taken on December 1st, 2011 in South Africa at a primary school in celebration of the school's first recognition of World AIDS Day. Here a group of girls from grade 7 perform a song they wrote about the stigma of having HIV/AIDS and...
This photo was taken after the set up was complete for World AIDS Day 2011 at the Main House of Health in Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan. The photo shows a Peace Corps volunteer with educational material to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS.
I took this photo in Juan O' Leary, Alto Parana while in the backyard of a friend's house on February 13, 2011. It's a photo of two girls posing while one is holding a bird.
I took this photo while on the c-section ward at the hospital in Arua Uganda. This is a set of twin girls. I also took photos of other twins born at this time. Being a nurse I have direct patient contact to help educate and inform. Education is a...
The photographer was attending an event in Tsivangiana. She saw a photo opportunity and took a picture of the two beautiful children. Tsivangiana is located on the east coast of Madagascar. The photo was taken in 2010.
Taken in April, 2011 in Guatemala. My host sister, myself, and sister in-law (blonde) on the roof of my house, with the town (like Hollywood) sign in the background. Celebrating culture, womanhood...and clothes!
At a workshop of the new Primary Five Curriculum Rollout, I took this picture of our participants (P5 teachers) engaging in some of the stations I had set up. The new P5 curriculum is focus on learner-centered teaching. This station is a math...
Girls from the three southern-most provinces of Mozambique incorporate HIV-prevention methods while learning to play ultimate frisbee at the 2011 Southern Regional REDES (Rapariga em Desenvolvimento, Educação e Saúde--Girls in Education,...
I took this photo in May 2012 as part of the Rivne Awareness Project. The PEPFAR funded project included two trainings of trainers for both teachers/psychologists in Rivne as well as secondary school students (grades 9-11). After completing the...
This photo was taken at the World AIDS Day event in a community in Swaziland. This group of young primary students are a part of the school's health club. They performed a drama about 'getting to zero' in terms of zero new infections, zero related...
This was taken in October 2010 after the inauguration of 8 water faucets for my school, La Felicidad, in Guatemala. Pictured here are me and two students after the inauguration.
The Vegetarian Festival is an annual event in Thailand, celebrated especially by Chinese Thais. Specially chosen devotees prepare physically and spiritually before the festival and follow a vegetarian diet. During the event they partake in...
This is what I viewed while on my bike riding home from another Volunteer’s house during pre-service training (PST). People would sleep in this house during short grain rice season to protect their fields from whomever or whatever would damage...
In this small village in East Java, Indonesia this was a common view at sunset from the front door of my home stay during training. The mountain in view is Panderman Mountain.
This is a photo of myself (taken by Volunteer Stephanie Lagos, and used with permission) holding Laciba, one of my neighbor's daughters, in a village of in the northern region of Ghana, around December of 2010.