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    • Youth Film-Makers Against HIV/AIDS

    • Youth Film-Makers Against HIV/AIDS

    • HIV/AIDS; Youth development

    • During my first year living in my community in Nicaragua, I loved spending my afternoons working with a youth group making videos about the community. After a while it became too much to continue editing all of the footage myself and so with a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Young Muslim Girl

    • Young Muslim Girl

    • Traditional dress; Children

    • This little girl is one of my neighbors and she is the loudest little girl. She will see me coming from a mile away and scream my name as loud as she can before running over and chatting non-stop in the local language, Kiborana. On this day in June...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Young girl

    • Young girl

    • Children; Host families

    • This is a photo of a young girl posing for the camera. The photo was taken (using color accent) at a friend's house in Juan O'Leary, Alto Parana on December 25, 2010.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • You Go Girl

    • You Go Girl

    • Girls' education; Host community

    • Many of the men in my village leave to find work in Italy. They are gone for years at a time while the women and girls have to make ends meet in village, waiting for money to be sent over. This is a photo of three girls from my village in...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • You Don't Have to Be a Dentist to Find Cavities

    • You Don't Have to Be a Dentist to Find Cavities

    • Host community friends; Volunteers; Children

    • The children in my village have taken me in at their big sister, calling me "kakak" rather than my actual name. It's heartwarming. They love to take me to the sugarcane fields that surround our village. They run with knifes, and it makes me...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yoga in the DR

    • Yoga in the DR

    • Camps and clubs

    • This photo was taken during a Chicas Brillantes conference in February 2011. Volunteer Phoebe is teaching 50 young Dominican girls how to use yoga to relieve stress, build self-confidence and stay healthy. It was part of a 3-day conference that...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yoga in Pilatovets

    • Yoga in Pilatovets

    • Sports; Children; Volunteers

    • On August 18th, 2011, the second day of a summer camp in Bulgaria, I led a yoga class. The picture shows me, second from the left, and a group of girls, ages 8-12, in the Warrior I pose. Women and girls were very interested in fitness. As an after...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yoga

    • Yoga

    • Sports; Pre-service training (PST)

    • I took this picture in August 2010 during my pre-service training in Cambodia. This photo shows a group of my fellow Volunteers practicing yoga during some free time in one Volunteer's host family's wooden home.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yes, We Have Bananas

    • Yes, We Have Bananas

    • Markets

    • This photo was taken in March 2011 at the Talumalu Market. Talumalu is a very big market and the center of things on Saturdays when everyone is doing their shopping. Mostly vegetables and produce of all kinds, but also available are Tongan...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yearn for Education

    • Yearn for Education

    • Art

    • I took this photo February, 2012 in Carpuela (Valle de Chota) Imbabura, Ecuador. It depicts artist Alicia Villaba's view of the yearning and longing for a better education for the young Afro-Ecuadorians in her community. This power piece is made...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Ya-ee

    • Ya-ee

    • Host families

    • I took this photo in December 2010 in Cambodia. The photo shows my ya-ee (Khmer language for grandmother) fanning herself on another hot Cambodian day.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Write On Competition

    • Write On Competition

    • Libraries

    • I am doing practice writing classes for the students before the Write On contest, which will be February 12th at our high school in the Philippines. They write in the library. When this picture was taken there were 11 students; we are up to 14 and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World Map 2

    • World Map 2

    • World map project; Teachers and students

    • This picture has a volunteer and kids working on a world map in Paraguay on June 24, 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World Map 1

    • World Map 1

    • World map project; Teachers and students

    • This picture includes a volunteer and kids painting a world map on the library in Paraguay on June 24, 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World Map

    • World Map

    • Crafts; World Map Project; Youth; Schools

    • This photo was taken in January 2013. My friend and I helped create a world map at my primary school, and the local community members and children loved to sit and watch us while we drew out the individual countries. Some were even brave enough to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World Malaria Day Rally

    • World Malaria Day Rally

    • Malaria; Celebrations; Education

    • As a PCRV in Liberia, I joined the Liberian Red Cross in a World Malaria Day 2010 rally in downtown Tubmanburg, Liberia. Participants marched through downtown ending at the Red Cross Headquarters, where an informational program was given.
    • Volunteer Photos

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