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    • Painting Awareness

    • Painting Awareness

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo in July 2011 at a summer camp for at-risk youth infected and affected by HIV in Ukraine. Camp OHALOW (Overcoming HIV And Leading Our World) is a week-long HIV leadership camp where kids aged 10-13 have an opportunity to experience...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tears for Years of Fighting HIV/AIDS

    • Tears for Years of Fighting HIV/AIDS

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo is original work of the Girls' Club of Uukwiyuushona Combined School, Namibia from 28 June 2012. Thirty female learners ages 14-20 collaborated ideas and were given a camera to capture them. As learners in grades either 9 or 10, they...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Taking a Stand Together

    • Taking a Stand Together

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo during the May 2011 Candlelight Memorial in Rivne, Ukraine. The transmission rate of HIV in Eastern Europe is one of the highest in the world and this picture displays the Rivnenska community taking a moment to remember those who...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Soviet Memories

    • Soviet Memories

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken in Ukraine in June 2012. Pictured are Irena Karkan and Volunteer Joanne Luongo (seated). Ukraine is full of reminders of its communist past. Tanks, fighter jets, and heavy artillary are displayed in every community around the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Pretty Maids all in a Row

    • Pretty Maids all in a Row

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken in the yard of my apartment block in Ukraine, in May 2012. Our yard is the "Children's Yard" where all the kids in the neighborhood gather to play every evening after dinner. The children are bright, beautiful, fun and very...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Pin Pride

    • Pin Pride

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken at the junior high school I teach at in Gbedema, Ghana during the week of World AIDS Day which was December 1, 2012. During the week, the students were taught lessons on HIV/AIDS and the teachers wore red ribbon pins to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Advocacy Starts Young

    • Advocacy Starts Young

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken at the junior high school I teach at in Ghana during the week of World AIDS Day which was December 1, 2012. During the week, the students were taught lessons on HIV/AIDS and the teachers wore red ribbon pins to commemorate...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A World Without HIV

    • A World Without HIV

    • HIV/AIDS; Art

    • I took this photo in July 2011 at a summer camp for at-risk youth infected and affected by HIV in Ukraine. Camp OHALOW (Overcoming HIV And Leading Our World) is a week-long HIV leadership camp where kids aged 10-13 have an opportunity to experience...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Peace and Awareness

    • Peace and Awareness

    • HIV/AIDS; Art

    • I took this photo in July 2011 at a summer camp for at-risk youth infected and affected by HIV in Ukraine. Camp OHALOW (Overcoming HIV And Leading Our World) is a week-long HIV leadership camp where kids aged 10-13 have an opportunity to experience...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Candles in the Night

    • Candles in the Night

    • HIV/AIDS; Celebrations

    • I took this photo in May 2012 at the end of the Rivne Awareness Project (Ukraine). The PEPFAR funded project included two trainings for both teachers/psychologists in Rivne and school students (grades 9-11). After completing the training teachers &...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mam Nonga

    • Mam Nonga

    • Camps and clubs

    • I have a creativity club for pre-school/kindergarden-aged children where we do activities to encourage creativity, independence, and outside-the-box thinking. In Burkina Faso the education system is based largely on a system of memorization, and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Lamusa

    • Lamusa

    • Children

    • This photo was taken during a seminar for women's health. The child in this picture is the son of the woman who was presenting information about proper nutrition. I held him while she presented. His name is Lamusa, which means "Thursday" in my...
    • 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

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