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    • Watermelon

    • Watermelon

    • HIV/AIDS

    • In parched north-eastern Nicaragua, a watermelon can make the difference between good health and malnourishment. For someone living with HIV/AIDS, it can mean the difference between life and death. This photo was in 2012 taken at a family garden...
    • Team Work

    • Team Work

    • HIV/AIDS

    • Volunteer Tara and her counterpart work together to provide workshops to hospital staff at a public hospital in Nicaragua. The workshops focus on ensuring equal treatment of HIV positive patients, often times the exception rather than the rule...
    • Green Tomatoes

    • Green Tomatoes

    • HIV/AIDS; Gardens

    • In parched north-eastern Nicaragua, a handful of tomatoes can make the difference between good health and malnourishment. For someone living with HIV/AIDS, they can mean the difference between life and death. This photo was taken in 2012 at a...
    • Virus de Inmunodeficiencia Humana

    • Virus de Inmunodeficiencia Humana

    • HIV/AIDS

    • Two stick figures are shown demonstrating one important aspect of HIV/AIDS: it only affects human beings. This was taken in Barranquilla, Colombia in 2012 during a Peace Corps workshop and was created by workshop participants.
    • Camp Espoir

    • Camp Espoir

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken at an annual Peace Corp Togo camp (camp espoir, or 'hope' in English). This camp occurs every year and for children and youth in every region of the country who are infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. The camp gives the kids an...
    • HIV/AIDS Interactive Game Show

    • HIV/AIDS Interactive Game Show

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This is a group of photos taken at a school in Ghana. The genders are separated and each student participates anonymously using a turning tech audience response system. This allows students to participate without standing out, and encourages...
    • Iceme HIV Support Group

    • Iceme HIV Support Group

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This support group in Uganda would get together every 2 weeks throughout the year to talk about issues and concerns and receive education on HIV/AIDS. This picture is the group that came in September 2011. The group would sometimes have 15 to 80...
    • Team Work

    • Team Work

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken in Togo, West Africa in the village of Pagala at the Peace Corp training site. This was a camp (Camp Espoir, or Hope in English) for children and youth who were infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. A large majority of the campers...
    • Paper Making

    • Paper Making
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    • In April 2012, a club of primary school students learned how to make recycled paper in a small town in southern Mozambique. In this club, students learn skills that will help them to support themselves or their education, as well as information...
    • Paint the world

    • Paint the world

    • HIV/AIDS

    • Ishiwi lya Abanna, meaning voice of the children was a group created a schooll for youth to have a safe haven to express themselves through creativity. On World AIDS Day, December 1, 2010, the children marched 15 kilometers through their community...
    • Paint the world

    • Paint the world

    • HIV/AIDS

    • Ishiwi lya Abanna, meaning voice of the children was a group created at a school for youth to have a safe haven to express themselves through creativity. On World AIDS Day, December 1, 2010, the children marched 15 kilometers through their...
    • Iceme HIV Support Group

    • Iceme HIV Support Group

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken during an HIV/AIDS education and prevention, treatment, care, and support, and Reducing/eliminating stigma and discrimination support group that is held every 2 week throughout the year. The participants number in 15 to 86 at...
    • Besame

    • Besame

    • HIV/AIDS

    • A group of trained peer-educators made signs for the 2008 World AIDS Day parade in Sonaguera, Honduras. This youth's sign says "Kiss me! HIV is not transmitted by kissing."
    • World AIDS Day

    • World AIDS Day

    • HIV/AIDS

    • For the event of World AIDS Day, we conducted a two part activity. The first part of the activity was a mini workshop on the transmission and prevention of HIV. When this activity was done, I, along with some members of the health center staff,...
    • World AIDS Day

    • World AIDS Day

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This is me starting to paint the mural. This was at the very beginning before the mural was completely finished. Here I am emphasizing on the touches of the butterfly of hope. The butterfly became the symbol for CanillĂ  in raising awareness and...
    • Cuida tu Amor

    • Cuida tu Amor

    • HIV/AIDS

    • Here I am showing off the t-shirt I designed for the Paraguay Peace Corps HIV/AIDS taskforce. I am standing in my garden in the town of San Miguel, Paraguay. Sales of the t-shirt support the program. It was quite popular. "Cuida tu Amor" means "Be...
    • Learning is Fun!

    • Learning is Fun!

    • Children; Volunteerism

    • Huge smiles announce how much fun these five year old kids in preschool at the local Neighborhood Care Point (NCP) are having while learning their colors and numbers through fun games and coloring books. These kids come from families that don't...
    • Teamwork and Inspiration

    • Teamwork and Inspiration

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo during a mural-painting event held in March 2012 in Swaziland. The HIV+ Support Group came together to design and paint a large mural encouraging community members to remain faithful to one partner in order to stop the spread of...

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