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    • STOP AIDS!

    • STOP AIDS!

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken in May 2012, outside the local preschool. The children learned about putting a 'STOP' to AIDS and basics on how to avoid getting the virus. The kids were drawing in the sand showing the hand signal to stopping AIDS.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • United We Stand

    • United We Stand

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken at the World AIDS Day event in a community in Swaziland. This group of young primary students are a part of the school's health club. They performed a drama about 'getting to zero' in terms of zero new infections, zero related...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Child with Gogo

    • Child with Gogo

    • HIV/AIDS

    • A gogo (grandmother) takes her TB medicine with food during a visit by a home-based care worker on the morning of June 16, 2011, while her grandson sits across the table. She is one of the many people in South Africa affected by both HIV and TB....
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Child and Father

    • Child and Father

    • HIV/AIDS

    • A boy still has banana residue on his mouth after taking his medicine to treat TB as his father sits in the background. The child likely was infected with TB by his mother, who is also HIV positive. The HIV pandemic has created TB epidemics in some...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Working Hand-in-Hand To Make a Difference

    • Working Hand-in-Hand To Make a Difference

    • HIV/AIDS; Celebrations

    • This photo was taken at the end of my organization's World AIDS Day Awareness Campaign on December 2, 2011 in South Africa. This image is of the four Volunteers who helped make the awareness campaign such a huge success. The "flag" they are...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hand in Hand In Making a Better Future

    • Hand in Hand In Making a Better Future

    • HIV/AIDS; Children

    • I captured this precious image at the end of my organization's World AIDS Day Awareness Campaign on December 2, 2011 in South Africa. These boys pictured are some of the orphans that receive daily meals at my organization. They have all lost...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tea Siame

    • Tea Siame

    • Host families

    • This photo was taken one Sunday morning in Kanye, Botswana. I was still living with the Sengalo family during my first two months of training. Because Sunday morning was my only free morning of the week, I would always stay in my pajamas a little...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Choir

    • Choir

    • music; schools; counterparts

    • A teacher, and school choir conductor, takes a bow after her learners sing the national anthem at an inter-school cultural and art competition in South Africa on August 30, 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Donald

    • Donald

    • music; youth

    • An out-of-school youth spends his time making music how ever he can, in this case he uses a wire and an old deodorant stick to make a trumpet-like instrument. The caregivers seen in the background were doing a home visit in South Africa. June 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Another One Shaved

    • Another One Shaved

    • Pre-service Training (PST)

    • Barb gets her hair trimmed to a buzz one night in February 2011 in South Africa. Shavings became a nightly ritual for trainees during the first week in-country. In the background, from left to right, are Lanna, Stephanie Martone, and Shaelyn.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Concentrate

    • Concentrate

    • Pre-service Training (PST)

    • Ethan carefully trims the hair of Barb as fellow trainees look on one night during training in South Africa. February 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Take Me Out To The Ball Game

    • Take Me Out To The Ball Game

    • Sports; Children

    • This photo was taken during training for health group 33 in Namibia, at an organization named Kayec. This is an after school program that we visited during training and we were teaching the learners how to play baseball. The young girls were my...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Safety First

    • Safety First

    • Sports; Children

    • This photo was taken in Namibia at the after school program Kayec during our pre-service training for health group 33. We taught the kids how to play the American game of baseball. This boy was trying on a baseball helmet for safety.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Soccer Viewing

    • Soccer Viewing

    • Sports; Pre-service training (PST)

    • This mom and son watched a soccer match at a health event put on by Peace COrps trainees in our homestay village.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Netball

    • Netball

    • sports; youth

    • Sindri joins a scramble for the ball with some students during a game of netball in South Africa in January 2011. Netball is similar to basketball and is popular among South African girls.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Matthew and the keyboard

    • Matthew and the keyboard

    • technology; education

    • I took this photo on September 6th, 2011 in the newly completed computer lab at Ramotshinyadi HIV/AIDS Youth Guide in South Africa. This was the first computer class in the lab, and was provided to seven local youths, most of whom had never used a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cultural Day at School

    • Cultural Day at School

    • Traditional dress; Celebrations

    • I took this photo during the cultural day in 2004 at one of the schools I volunteered at in Mpumalanga, South Africa. It was a wonderful celebration of their culture. Traditional clothes, food, dance and music made the day so special... for me and...
    • Volunteer Photos

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