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    • Find the Ball!

    • Find the Ball!

    • HIV/AIDS; Games

    • This is a photo of Dominican youth playing 'Find the Ball,' a game from the HIV prevention initiative Deportes para la Vida. Youth pass a ball from one another behind their backs in order to see if they can guess where it stops. The ball...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Do you know Pepe?

    • Do you know Pepe?

    • HIV/AIDS; Camps and clubs

    • This is a photo taken of club Superman in Dominican Republic. The group is for young boys and is facilitated by a local teenager, Victor. He is a wonderful role model and facilitates HIV prevention games that are taught in the Deportes para la...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Saber Es Poder - Knowledge is Power

    • Saber Es Poder - Knowledge is Power

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo on December 1, 2011 at the World AIDS Day event in my community in Dominican Republic. Our youth group Escojo Mi Vida ("I Choose My Life") prepared and presented informational talks and dramas about HIV/AIDS. The photo shows some...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Rights of Children

    • The Rights of Children

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This is a photo of a mural done on the front of an elementary school in Dominican Republic by the group Brilliant Girls. The mural depicts children's rights and features some of the painters and their proud work! One of the rights says freedom...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Juggling Life!

    • Juggling Life!

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This is a photo taken in Dominican Republic. Kristy, a youth Yolunteer in the DR, is facilitating a HIV prevention game called juggling life with her Sports for Life group. The youth have to try to juggle balls that represent different...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Escojo Mi Vida - I Choose My Life

    • Escojo Mi Vida - I Choose My Life

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken on December 1, 2011, at the World AIDS Day event in my community's church, Carlos Pinto, Dominican Republic. I am kneeling at the center surrounded by some of the youth members of our HIV/AIDS awareness group Escojo Mi Vida (I...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hand Washing

    • Hand Washing

    • Water and sanitation

    • This is a photo of the children who live in my courtyard. Every morning, midday and evening they come to my house so that we can wash our hands together. Hygiene is one of the health program's most emphasized subjects.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tailoring with Hope

    • Tailoring with Hope

    • Life skills

    • I took this photo during the second month of tailoring classes for local women infected with HIV/AIDS in Uganda. Many of these women have not completed primary school and are using their new technical skills to generate income and empower...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Goal-Forming with Young Campers

    • Goal-Forming with Young Campers

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken at a life skills summer camp we did in Ntolo, Cameroon. We were working on writing goals around staying in school and having a positive, healthy year. HIV/AIDS prevention was a big part of the life skills focus. This girl was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Steps

    • Steps

    • HIV/AIDS

    • A photo of women at a local health center who are attending a seminar on infant and maternal health. The photo shows a mother watching her child walk across the frame, holding my hands.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Preparing the Land

    • Preparing the Land

    • HIV/AIDS

    • These at-risk women, most HIV positive, are being trained to grow their own vegetables to improve their nourishment and possible provide income. Finote Selam, Etthiopia April 2011
    • Volunteer Photos
    • SIDA March

    • SIDA March

    • HIV/AIDS

    • Photo taken on Dec. 1, 2006 when the town of Tachina, Ecuador organized a march against HIV/AIDS. These are local students from the Luis Vargas Torres high-school.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Painting for Prevention

    • Painting for Prevention

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo on January 30th, 2012 at my Peace Corps site in Nicaragua. It was the second day of a two-day HIV workshop with at-risk youth and gang members funded by Peace Corps/PEPFAR VAST funds. The workshop was focused on HIV prevention and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • HIV-Free Future

    • HIV-Free Future

    • HIV/AIDS

    • For World AIDS Day, December 1, 2011, my counterpart and I put together a testing day and video show event in my town, Krobo, Central Region, Ghana. For the testing part we encouraged all community members to test. Our focus was specifically on...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hand Washing

    • Hand Washing

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This is a photo of the children who live in my courtyard. Every morning, midday and evening they come to my house so that we can wash our hands together. Hygiene is one of the health program's most emphasized subjects.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Soyskabobs

    • Soyskabobs

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this picture during a soy formation I organized as part of a series of VAST-funded income-generating activity trainings for people living with AIDS who are under treatment at the local hospital in Cameroon. The project was aimed at care and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A la Sante!

    • A la Sante!

    • HIV/AIDS

    • These are participants of the soy workshop I organized as part of a series of income-generating activity trainings for AIDS patients at the local hospital. They have just made soymilk, learning about nutrition and also opportunities for earning...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sharing HIV Prevention Lyrics

    • Sharing HIV Prevention Lyrics

    • HIV/AIDS

    • These are two girls in my secondary school health club in Cameroon. We were planning to perform for the end-of-school ceremony on the topic of AIDS prevention, so they are pitching the lyrics they wrote to the rest of the club.
    • Volunteer Photos

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