This photo was taken in May 2010 of one of our Seboza Club Meetings at the primary school in Pandamatenga, Botswana. The students were from Standards 5-7 (equivalent of grades 4-6) and were participating in life skills and HIV prevention...
This photo was taken in November 2009 at Pandamatenga Primary School in Pandamatenga, Botswana. This was the end of the school year and we wanted to take a photo with the teacher and his standard 2 (equivalent of 1st grade) class, whom I was...
Adams Bunbunke Yao, the health/water sanitation technical trainer, works with students from the northern region of Ghana on a map of Ghana at the school. (July 2010)
During training in July 2010, health/water sanitation Peace Corps trainees, Emma and Connor, are teaching a hand-washing song to primary school students in the northern region of Ghana.
This was taken in Linden, Guyana, South America. It was part of a PEPFAR grant I was able to garnish alongside two other Volunteers. We did a puppet show campaign targeting primary and secondary schools with the message about HIV/AIDS...with...
This photo was taken in the northern region of Ghana during a two-week long HIV/AIDS education program. Five health Volunteers and three counterparts traveled down the White Volta River doing outreach and testing in over a dozen villages that are...
This is Damba sounding the talking drums during the Damba Festival (for which he was named) in the northern region of Ghana. The men sitting behind are elders and opinion leaders who have joined outside the chief's palace. (February 2010)
Myself, with a group of children who helped our health/water sanitation Peace Corps trainees, dig a simple pit latrine in a village in the northern region of Ghana. The photo was taken by Connor Botkin (used with permission) in July of 2010.
I took this photo around the time of the Muslim holiday, Tobaski, in mid-November, 2011. This photo was taken outside of the family compound. Baby Yaya and I are about to go on a walk around village with the other children who will receive their...
This is my landlady Abibata with her two children, Yushogu and Fusina, at our family house. I brought out some sparklers I'd received in a package and they had a blast - although we had to be careful of the thatch roofing. Sparks and dry thatch...
This is Alimatu, the little girl that lives in my family house in the northern region of Ghana. We had painted our faces earlier that morning with fingernail polish. The kids love it and pretended like they were going to a wedding. (April 2011)
This photo was taken up the Demerara River in Guyana, South America. My counterpart, the clinic staff and myself would make twice monthly trips to service the rivering communities. This is one of the houses/docks we stopped at and captured this...
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.
This photo was taken in a community in Nicaragua during the month of May in 2011. As a maternal and child health Volunteer in El Jícaro, I assisted the doctors that day with collecting HIV tests. We ate lunch at a woman's house, and she had five...
Volunteers Casimir and Stephanie work with Mohammed and Adam to make their torches to burn for Fire Festival, an event that takes place in the northern region of Ghana. This photo was taken at my house in December of 2010.
My neighbor's child, Laciba, and my landlord's little girl, Fusina, playing with balloons at my house in the northern region of Ghana (Christmas Day, 2010).