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    • 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
    • Saber Es Poder - Knowledge is Power

    • Saber Es Poder - Knowledge is Power

    • HIV/AIDS

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Rights of Children

    • The Rights of Children

    • HIV/AIDS

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Juggling Life!

    • Juggling Life!

    • HIV/AIDS

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Escojo Mi Vida - I Choose My Life

    • Escojo Mi Vida - I Choose My Life

    • HIV/AIDS

    • 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...
    • 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
    • Junior

    • Junior

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo in June 2012 at La Ressource Combined school in St. Lucia. After seeing the HIV/AIDS awareness pin that I keep on my bag, a couple of grade 5 boys were interested in what it stood for. I came to find out that they knew very little...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • What it Means

    • What it Means

    • HIV/AIDS

    • 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.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • MYTH

    • MYTH

    • HIV/AIDS

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Blood Transfusion

    • Blood Transfusion

    • HIV/AIDS

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • MYTH

    • MYTH

    • HIV/AIDS

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Myths and Facts

    • Myths and Facts

    • HIV/AIDS

    • 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...
    • 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
    • Do you know Pepe?

    • Do you know Pepe?

    • HIV/AIDS; Camps and clubs

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cookies for a Cause

    • Cookies for a Cause

    • HIV/AIDS; Cooking

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Student Submission at HIV Event

    • Student Submission at HIV Event

    • HIV/AIDS; Drama

    • 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.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Find the Ball!

    • Find the Ball!

    • HIV/AIDS; Games

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos

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