This photo was taken during my trip to Crimea, Ukraine, to visit some of local Volunteers. The girl in this picture is Azime, a Crimean Tatar 12 year old. The photo shows her proudly showing her parents' crops. Azime lives in a little town far away...
This photo was taken during my trip to Crimea, Ukraine, to visit some local Volunteers. The girl in this picture is Azime, a Crimean Tatar 12 year old. The photo shows her proudly showing her parents' crops. Azime lives in a little town far away...
A group of trained peer-educators made signs for the 2008 World AIDS Day parade in Sonaguera, Honduras. This youth's sign says "Kiss me! HIV is not transmitted by kissing."
This was an end result of a PEPFAR-funded chicken project. The group consists of 10 HIV positive people, 5 people with disabilities and 5 fully healthy people. The group broke down stigma among the village regarding HIV positive people and people...
Here I am showing off the t-shirt I designed for the Paraguay Peace Corps HIV/AIDS taskforce. I am standing in my garden in the town of San Miguel, Paraguay. Sales of the t-shirt support the program. It was quite popular. "Cuida tu Amor" means "Be...
In this photo I am showing off the t-shirt I designed for the Paraguay Peace Corps HIV/AIDS Taskforce. I am standing in my garden in the town of San Miguel, Paraguay. Sales of the t-shirt support the program. It was quite popular. "Cuida tu Amor"...
RPCV Dina Davis with the stickers she designed for the Paraguay Peace Corps AIDS Taskforce awareness campaign, 2010.
The stickers say "Sabes las realidades?," meaning "Do you know the facts?," and were designed to accompany a pamphlet of AIDS...
This photo was taken on December 1st, 2011 in South Africa at a primary school in celebration of the school's first recognition of World AIDS Day. Here a learner presents basic fact to a student body of close to 700 other learners on the current...
This photo was taken in Mozambique during one of my REDES meetings. REDES is a girls empowerment group in Peace Corps Mozambique that stands for Girls for the Development of Education and Health. I meet with my girls twice every week: once to...
Two students of a girls' secondary school share a happy moment during an exercise at soccer practice. In the lesson the students learn about team work and how to praise one another for a job well done. The girls are enrolled in the grassroots...
This was the actual handmade butterfly that was passed out to the health center staff in a town in Guatemala on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2011. It was a way to promote HIV awareness and the hope of finding a cure in the near future for HIV.
This photo was taken July 2011 in Ghana. I, Britany Ferrell, trained students to be HIV/AIDS peer educators at a senior high school where I was a teacher. In this picture you see my students wearing their blue HIV peer educator t-shirts, giving a...
This picture was taken at the open house during our "HIV Tour" in Ecuador on September 16, 2011. Middle and high school students participated in an interactive presentation on basic HIV information and played games testing their knowledge on HIV...
I took this photo during the school parade that the Health Post and I organized for December 1st, 2009: International Day Against HIV and AIDS in Peru. All of the teenagers in the high school participated by making banners and marching to the...
This photo was taken in the western region of Ghana. I, Britany Ferrell, am in the photo surrounded by a "sea of children" who were excited and followed us around on the "Know Your Status Float" that was driven around the town alerting people of...
Huge smiles announce how much fun these five year old kids in preschool at the local Neighborhood Care Point (NCP) are having while learning their colors and numbers through fun games and coloring books. These kids come from families that don't...
Dina Davis holds the stickers she designed to accompany informational pamphlets for World AIDS Day. The campaign was initiated and carried out by the Peace Corps Paraguay AIDS Taskforce.
Dina Davis holds the stickers she designed to accompany informational pamphlets for World AIDS Day. The campaign was initiated and carried out by the Peace Corps Paraguay AIDS Taskforce.
This is a photo of me and several of my community members as we participate in a local celebration in the Lubombo region of Swaziland. The festival commemorates the harvest of the marula fruit in February 2011 and women from all over come together...
I took this photo during a mural-painting event held in March 2012 in Swaziland. The HIV+ Support Group came together to design and paint a large mural encouraging community members to remain faithful to one partner in order to stop the spread of...