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    • Cookies for a Cause

    • Cookies for a Cause
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    • 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
    • AIDS Ribbon Cookie Project

    • AIDS Ribbon Cookie Project
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    • This is a photo of my volunteer club, Together We Can Succeed. The kids are from a small village in Bulgaria, called Svoboda. We created the awareness ribbon cookies by hand, and wrapped them to be sold for future HIV/AIDS prevention projects. The...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hello

    • Hello
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    • This photo was taken in Sitio Banawen, San Felipe, Zambales, Philippines during a visit to the Aeta community on December 2010. This is a indigenous community that were affected by the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in 1991. Yearly, my organization hikes...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Bata (Children)

    • Bata (Children)
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    • This photo was taken in Sitio Banawen, San Felipe, Zambales, Philippines during a visit to the Aeta community on December 2010. This is a indigenous community that were affected my the eruption of Mt. Pinatubo in 1991. Yearly, my organization hikes...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Home Based Care

    • Home Based Care
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    • This photo was taken of a community home-based care volunteer in Mookane, Botswana on World AIDS Day December 1, 2004. These volunteers visit HIV/AIDS and other ill patients in their home bringing them supplies and friendship.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Library Club

    • Library Club
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    • Children in Botswana gather for a weekly library club at their primary school. Volunteer Harmony Caton spent time with the children, combining art, computer lessons, and HIV education. The students often practiced by typing out phrases and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hand in Hand In Making a Better Future

    • Hand in Hand In Making a Better Future
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    • I captured this precious image at the end of my organization's World AIDS Day Awareness Campaign on December 2, 2011 in South Africa. These boys pictured are some of the orphans that receive daily meals at my organization. They have all lost...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • AIDS Day Princess

    • AIDS Day Princess
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    • I took this photo at the Dibete AIDS Day Celebration in Dibete, Botswana on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2005. The HIV rate in Dibete is quite high (in one study conducted by the PMTCT Counselor in the area over 45.8% of those tested), as it is on...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Their Undivided Attention

    • Their Undivided Attention
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    • I took this photo during our Farewell Celebration for our host families in Mpumalanga, South Africa on March 22, 2012, day before I was to be sworn in as a Peace Corps Volunteer in South Africa. Staring from the back, I was in awe at the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Come, Come to our Awareness Campaign!

    • Come, Come to our Awareness Campaign!
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    • I took this photo right before my organization's World AIDS Day Awareness Campaign on December 2, 2011 in Khula Village, South Africa. The children holding these signs are orphans who have lost their parents from HIV/AIDS. Before the event these...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • We Are All Affected

    • We Are All Affected
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    • I took this photo at my organization's World AIDS Day Awareness Campaign on December 2, 2011 in a village in South Africa. After the formal program of the day, different activites were organized to get the attendees of the event to think about the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Ludo HIV Awareness Tournament

    • Ludo HIV Awareness Tournament
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    • This photo was taken in Uganda in 2009. It is a photo of a tournament involving 13 rural communities playing a popular game that has been modified to provide factual information about HIV/AIDS. During the tournament there were testaments from...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth Visions HIV Prevention Mural

    • Youth Visions HIV Prevention Mural
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    • This photo was taken during the unveiling of an HIV prevention mural painted in 2008 in collaboration with the students from Kongo SS in the Upper East Region of Ghana. This was the culmination of a six week project focused on collaboration between...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World AIDS Day 2007 Bawku

    • World AIDS Day 2007 Bawku
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    • I took this photo of a World AIDS Day Voluntary Counseling and Testing for HIV (VCT) promotion banner right outside the Bawku hospital in the Upper East Region of Ghana. I worked with the other Volunteers in the Upper East Region to help make this...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • One in Four

    • One in Four
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    • Swaziland currently has the highest HIV rate in the world. One out of every four people is infected with the virus. But everyone in this small but beautiful country is affected. The children of Swaziland suffer the most, many losing their parents...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Running Towards the Future

    • Running Towards the Future
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    • A woman runs towards a trash can to dispose of a "used" condom in a race against fellow villagers. By educating rural Malagasy on HIV/AIDS prevention, Peace Corps Volunteers hope to reduce transmission rates and increase awareness. In 2010,...
    • Volunteer Photos

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