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    • 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
    • Health Club HIV Prevention Song Practice

    • Health Club HIV Prevention Song Practice

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo during the practice session of the Health Club girls who were going to sing an HIV prevention song, with an accompanying dance, at Youth Day in front of the whole community. They were out of my house practicing after having made...
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Lighting the Night

    • Lighting the Night

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo in May 2012 as part of the Rivne Awareness Project. The PEPFAR funded project included two trainings of trainers for both teachers/psychologists in Rivne as well as secondary school students (grades 9-11). After completing the...
    • 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
    • Never Too Young

    • Never Too Young

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo in May 2012 as part of the Rivne Awareness Project. The PEPFAR funded project included two trainings of trainers for both teachers/psychologists in Rivne as well as secondary school students (grades 9-11). After completing the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Outreach HIV Testing

    • Outreach HIV Testing

    • HIV/AIDS

    • Iceme Health Center III laboratory assistant, Samaritan, and a Volunteer went to Awio village for an outreach HIV testing in the Oyam District on June 21, 2011. We tested over 100 men, women and adolescent youth. In the photo is village women and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • Project Success

    • Project Success

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken in May 2012 as part of the Rivne Awareness Project. The PEPFAR funded project included two trainings of trainers for both teachers/psychologists in Rivne as well as secondary school students (grades 9-11). After completing the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Protect Yourself

    • Protect Yourself

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo in May 2012 as part of the Rivne Awareness Project. The PEPFAR funded project included two trainings of trainers for both teachers/psychologists in Rivne as well as secondary school students (grades 9-11). After completing the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Remembrance

    • Remembrance

    • HIV/AIDS

    • Photo was taken in Uganda at the International Candlelight Memorial 2012. Faith, age 6, is placing a candle in remembrance of the victims of AIDS. Faith was abandoned around the age of 4 and has tested HIV negative twice but some of her fellow...
    • Volunteer Photos

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