I took this photo during the Makira Island Youth HIV/AIDS workshop on July 6th, 2011, on Makira Island, Vanuatu. It was a one-day workshop focusing on teaching the youth of the island about HIV/AIDS. The workshop was broken up into four sections...
This photo was taken February 11, 2010 on Cameroon's National Youth Day. The students marching are high school students who were members of Club Reglo, or Youth Club, in my post of Banyo, Cameroon. These students were trained as peer educators...
I took this photo in December of 2012 at a high school in Cameroon. The Health Club and Girls Empowerment Club partnered together to hold a series of events for the school population to commemorate World AIDS Day. The most popular part was the...
This photo was taken during a World Aids Day observance in Lovech, Bulgaria in 2011. Youth volunteers from the Bulgarian Red Cross spent the afternoon passing out brochures, condoms, etc. in the Lovech city center. The event culminated with the...
Galilaya is a fishing village located on Lake Kyoga at one of the northern most points in Kayunga District. Makerere University Walter Reed Project (MUWRP) collaborated with a Peace Corps Volunteer, Katherine Peters to do HIV education in Kayunga...
I took this photo at the end of a week-long workshop on HIV/AIDS for Village Health Workers in Vanuatu. Throughout the week we trained VHW's in HIV/AIDS knowledge and in tools and resources they could use for simple, effective awareness and...
July 24th, 2011 - Volunteer Brian Bartley shakes hands with a local football team competing in the North Bank region's first annual Know Your Status Football Tournament. Organized by three environment Volunteers, and one health Volunteer, the Know...
This picture was taken on the path to a museum in Suriname on Jan 21, 2012. Several Volunteers came to the village to support a 3-day HIV/AIDS education event, reaching over 400 people in the area. This photo shows a female Volunteer from a...
This photo was taken after the set up was complete for World AIDS Day 2011 at the Main House of Health in Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan. The photo shows a Peace Corps volunteer with educational material to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS.
This photo was taken during a week-long workshop for Village Health Workers in Vanuatu. The purposes of the workshop were to provide Village Health Workers (who work in very remote areas) with education on HIV/AIDS and to train them in tools and...
The image is of me dressed as a giant condon (condom) with the children of my PC site Zaruma, Ecuador. We were about to march through the streets of town to converge upon the parque central where displays the children had made were out for all to...
This Malagasy child was very enthusiastic about helping us Peace Corps Volunteers celebrate our AIDS festival at the community-based training site in the highlands of Madagascar. The festival was an education and awareness-raising activity held...
I took this picture on May 18th, 2012 in Ukraine. May 18th is Day of Remembrance for People Who Have Died of AIDS, the local social service center arranged for a memorial in support of those living with HIV and those who have passed away. The photo...
This picture was taken on Jan 19, 2012 at a school in Suriname. This was the first session of a 3-day HIV/AIDS education event in the village, held for the Adult Education Program students - about 100 men and women who attend evening classes at...
Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD); International Women's Day
The women of the Gulmance ethnic group in Burkina Faso proudly showcase their traditional wares for International Women's Day. This holiday, held annually on March 8th, highlights the achievements and contributions of women. The women in the...
This was taken on the second day of our HIV/AIDS workshop for Village Health Workers in Vanuatu on May 28th in Pango Village, Efate, Vanuatu. Village Health Workers came into Efate from many different islands across Vanuatu to learn how to teach...
This was taken on the third day of our HIV/AIDS workshop for Village Health Workers in Vanuatu on May 29th in Pango Village, Efate, Vanuatu. Mi Li, a Volunteer, is going over some of the HIV/AIDS posters to a Village Health Worker after one of the...
This was taken on the fourth day of our HIV/AIDS workshop for Village Health Workers in Vanuatu on May 30th in Pango Village, Efate, Vanuatu. Village Health Workers came into Efate from many different islands across Vanuatu to learn how to teach...
This was taken on the first day of our HIV/AIDS workshop for Village Health Workers in Vanuatu on May 27th in Vanuatu. Lindsay, a Volunteer, is wearing one of our special designed t-shirts for this years HIV/AIDS Village Health Worker Workshop.