These women are some of the vulnerable women being given training in urban gardening to help them improve their nutrition and teach them to raise their own gardens. Many of these women are HIV positive. This photo was taken in Ethiopia in the...
This group of employees from the district hospital in Namibia had just finished planting seeds in their plot at the hospital's community garden. The women are part of an HIV support group at the hospital that I had the pleasure of teaching...
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 "promoter" words on their T-shirts as well as an HIV awareness ribbon, methods of contraception, the words ETS...
Family members grieve at a deuil, or mourning ceremony, on the outskirts of Bandjoun, Cameroon, in August 2004. Many Cameroonians deny the existence of AIDS and insist that many die of the flu, pneumonia, or even sorcery. However, AIDS is often the...
My name is Nic, I have been a Peace Corps education Volunteer in Mozambique since 2011. I teach French and English to very talented 11th and 12th graders. Last month I organized the town's first annual Cultural Day to give my students an...
I took this photo during an 8 day, HIV/AIDS-focused home-based care training in Mekaneselam, Ethiopia. Fifteen caregivers were trained using a Peace Corps VAST grant to provide home-based care to people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Ethiopia. This...
I took this photo during an 8 day, HIV/AIDS-focused home-based care training in Mekaneselam, Ethiopia. Fifteen caregivers were trained using a Peace Corps VAST grant to provide home-based care to people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Ethiopia. This...
This photo was taken at a primary school in Cambodia on World AIDS Day 2011. Each student was given a red ribbon and a cube containing information about HIV/AIDS along with a short lecture on the topic. The picture shows a student with a ribbon...
HIV/AIDS is a major contributor to the growing number of orphans and vulnerable children in Ethiopia. Many of these orphaned children live on the streets in Dessie, Ethiopia, without much support, and chance to live in a home or receive an...
I took this photo during an 8 day, HIV/AIDS-focused home-based care training in Mekaneselam, Ethiopia. Fifteen caregivers were trained using a Peace Corps VAST grant to provide home-based care to people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Ethiopia....
The HIV+ group I worked with in Mpungu Vlei, Namibia, was bold and ready to take risks to eliminate stigma in the village. I designed t-shirts that said 'I'm Positive' on the front and 'about reducing stigma' on the back. Positive and negative...
I took this photo during an 8 day, HIV/AIDS-focused home-based care training in Mekaneselam, Ethiopia. Fifteen caregivers were trained using a Peace Corps VAST grant to provide home-based care to people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Ethiopia. This...
I took this photo during an 8 day, HIV/AIDS-focused home-based care training in Mekaneselam, Ethiopia. Fifteen caregivers were trained using a Peace Corps VAST grant to provide home-based care to people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Ethiopia....
I took this photo during an 8 day, HIV/AIDS-focused home-based care training in Mekaneselam, Ethiopia. Fifteen caregivers were trained using a Peace Corps VAST grant to provide home-based care to people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Ethiopia. This...
This photo was taken at a primary school in March 2012. The children were being educated on HIV/AIDs - good decision-making skills by two Volunteers. As part of the experience they performed role plays that were very good. This is one place that...
This photo was taken at a primary school in March, 2012. I was teaching a classroom of primary 4 children on good decision-making for HIV. The children were participatory and did role play. They don't have many volunteers go into the slum...
This photo was taken in April 2012 in Ghana (Northern Region) at a school for the deaf. I, Kate Barclay, am giving the presentation, and my JHS students are watching. The presentation is entirely in Ghanaian Sign Language.
Peace Corps Uganda unveiled an HIV Mural painting in Rakai, June 2011 at a primary school. This photo was taken while working on the mural. Volunteers and Ugandan staff and youth were involved in the project. As they were painting, the youth also...
Peace Corps Uganda painted a HIV Mural in Rakai, June 2011 at a primary school. This photo was taken while painting. Volunteers and Ugandan staff and youth were involved in the project. As they painted, the youth also learned about, HIV/AIDS,...