Three girls of a close family in the village of Tanka, Niger. It must have been bath time. The photo was taken in 2006 and it captures each of their personalities so perfectly.
While in Burkina Faso working on a World AIDS Day project, I painted a wall, taught proper condom usage, and had middle school students promise to live healthy lifestyles by putting their hand prints on the wall. Part of the promise that the middle...
Members of my women's association explained to mothers how to talk with their children about preventing HIV transmission, destigmatizing seropositivity, and how to prevent unwanted pregnancies. The group of 25 women met to discuss how to teach...
In Burkina Faso, my girl's soccer team practiced giving presentations on correct condom usage together before demonstrating their knowledge to the police officers of our community. As part of learning healthy living through sport, condom usage to...
This photo of Nong (five years old) was taken in his hometown of Plong sub-district, Thoeng district, Chiang Rai province on Dec 7, 2009 at a community event near the Thai-Laos border. After both his parents died from AIDS, Nong, who is also living...
This photo was taken during the HIV/AIDS Bike Trek in October 2011, in the small town of Badari, in The Gambia, West Africa. For two days, ten Peace Corps Volunteers partnered with a student and members of the faculty from Badari Basic Cycle School...
This photo was taken in April 2011 at a Volunteer-organized craft fair for rural artisans and cooperatives to sell their products in Fes, Morocco. Volunteers Diana Yan (right) and Sanyog (middle) are conducting HIV/AIDS outreach to a Moroccan man...
I took this photo during an HIV/AIDS prevention session at the Kingston YMCA in Kingston, Jamaica on April 23, 2012. This picture shows a group of boys raising their hand to true or false statements related to HIV/AIDS prevention.