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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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • 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
    • World AIDS Day 2011

    • World AIDS Day 2011

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This is a photo I took on World AIDS Day 2011 at the Lycee Bokito in Cameroon. We worked with the high school students to prepare speeches, video screenings, contests, and a testing center to raise awareness of the illness and promote prevention....
    • 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
    • Edzi Toto Comes to Cape Verde

    • Edzi Toto Comes to Cape Verde

    • HIV/AIDS

    • On December 1st 2012, Peace Corps Cape Verde celebrated what would be its last AIDS Day in country as not soon after Peace Corps would announce its graduation from the country it has so loyally served since 1988. In this photo, Volunteer...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Bwaise Slum Project

    • Bwaise Slum Project

    • HIV/AIDS

    • The youth here were taught life skills decision-making techniques for prevention of HIV. The youth acted out what they would do and say if confronted with a decision for sex. It was really great to watch them react to various situations that they...
    • 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

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