This photo was taken of students on December 1st, 2011 at a PEPFAR funded HIV awareness event in the Volunteer's town square. You can plainly see signs dedicated to HIV, a condom costume, and a dance routine.
This photo was taken of students on December 1st, 2011 at a PEPFAR funded HIV awareness event in the Volunteer's town square. You can plainly see the HIV/AIDS sign in the background. They are performing a skit dedicated to preventing discrimination...
I took this photo on December 1, 2011 at the World AIDS Day event in my community in Dominican Republic. Our youth group Escojo Mi Vida ("I Choose My Life") prepared and presented informational talks and dramas about HIV/AIDS. The photo shows some...
This is a photo of a mural done on the front of an elementary school in Dominican Republic by the group Brilliant Girls. The mural depicts children's rights and features some of the painters and their proud work! One of the rights says freedom...
This is a photo taken in Dominican Republic. Kristy, a youth Yolunteer in the DR, is facilitating a HIV prevention game called juggling life with her Sports for Life group. The youth have to try to juggle balls that represent different...
This photo was taken on December 1, 2011, at the World AIDS Day event in my community's church, Carlos Pinto, Dominican Republic. I am kneeling at the center surrounded by some of the youth members of our HIV/AIDS awareness group Escojo Mi Vida (I...
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...
A student at a school in St. Vincent and the Grenadines (Eastern Caribbean) writes out the definition of HIV/AIDS at an educational seminar in HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention facilitated by Volunteers Katie and Sheena.
During an HIV/AIDS education workshop facilitated by PCVs in conjunction with the House of Hope Society in Kingstown, St. Vincent (Eastern Caribbean), students examined myths and facts about the spread of HIV/AIDS. In this photo, the student holds...
Peace Corps Volunteer Sheena facilitates an interactive learning session with primary school students at a school in St. Vincent (Eastern Caribbean) about the myths and facts about HIV/AIDS transmission. In this photo she holds up the card reading...
This photo was taken during an educational program for primary school students about the myths and facts of HIV transmission. Peace Corps Volunteers and staff at the House of Hope state possible forms of HIV transmission and the students hold up...
Sixty students in Grade 4 at a school in St. Vincent participate in a Myths and Facts activity designed to teach different ways through which HIV/AIDS is transmitted. The HIV/AIDS awareness/education program is facilitated by Volunteers and...
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...
This is a photo taken of club Superman in Dominican Republic. The group is for young boys and is facilitated by a local teenager, Victor. He is a wonderful role model and facilitates HIV prevention games that are taught in the Deportes para la...
This picture was taken in Svoboda, Bulgaria during a prevention and awareness fund raising project in 2011. The kids were baking AIDS awareness ribbon cookies by hand, and loving every second of it. The village of Svoboda is small, and consists of...
This photo was taken during an HIV/AIDS awareness fundraising project. The kids in my volunteer club called, Together We Can Succeed, were baking AIDS ribbon cookies to sell for materials for more prevention projects. All of the cookies were hand...
This photo was taken on December 1st, 2011 at a PEPFAR funded HIV awareness event in the Volunteer's town square. You can plainly see the large poster made by students at a secondary school and a teenage girl talking about their project.
This is a photo of Dominican youth playing 'Find the Ball,' a game from the HIV prevention initiative Deportes para la Vida. Youth pass a ball from one another behind their backs in order to see if they can guess where it stops. The ball...
This photo was taken on May 22, 2011 during a soccer tournament. Honduras Peace Corps Youth Development Volunteer Ashley Bass was giving a "charla," or chat, about the proper use of a condom to a large group of men ages 15-15 during a break in a...
A group of youth holding pamphlets containing information about HIV/AIDS distributed during the second HIV/AIDS community awareness campaign we completed during my service.