This photo was taken while leading rural Salvadoran youth in a group discussion after the first performance of "A Mi Manera," an original musical promoting life skills, gender equality, and reproductive health. Over 100 rural youth from Peace Corps...
Breaking some ice with university directors and professors in Guinea to ease into another day of our entrepreneurship training on April 25, 2013. SPA results: Representatives 15 Guinean universities as well as representatives from other...
Many of the men in my village leave to find work in Italy. They are gone for years at a time while the women and girls have to make ends meet in village, waiting for money to be sent over. This is a photo of three girls from my village in...
The children in my village have taken me in at their big sister, calling me "kakak" rather than my actual name. It's heartwarming. They love to take me to the sugarcane fields that surround our village. They run with knifes, and it makes me...
This photo was taken on the island of Grenada. This photograph is from Grenada's inaugural Camp G.L.O.W. (Girls Leading Our World) 2012. This week long sleep over camp was made possible by a SPA grant. This photo was taken during our morning...
This photo was taken on the island of Grenada. This photograph is from Grenada's inaugural Camp G.L.O.W. (Girls Leading Our World) 2012. This week long sleep over camp was made possible by a SPA grant. This photo was taken during our morning...
This photo was taken on the island of Grenada. This photograph is from Grenada's inaugural Camp G.L.O.W. (Girls Leading Our World) 2012. This week long sleep over camp was made possible by a SPA grant. This photo was taken during our morning...
I took this photo February, 2012 in Carpuela (Valle de Chota) Imbabura, Ecuador. It depicts artist Alicia Villaba's view of the yearning and longing for a better education for the young Afro-Ecuadorians in her community. This power piece is made...
Yai Gong (Thai grandmother) in my host family seems pleased with the color on her fingertips. In the first month on site i was often with her as the family went out to pick chili. She liked me, although I knew she couldn't quite figure out who I...
I am doing practice writing classes for the students before the Write On contest, which will be February 12th at our high school in the Philippines. They write in the library. When this picture was taken there were 11 students; we are up to 14 and...
This photo was taken in January 2013. My friend and I helped create a world map at my primary school, and the local community members and children loved to sit and watch us while we drew out the individual countries. Some were even brave enough to...
This photo is taken on December 1st, 2011 in Swaziland. In organizing a day event at the local primary school to raise awareness and decrease stigma of HIV/AIDS, the students participated in various ways. This picture is of young primary school...
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 grade 6 learner reads a poem she has written for the school event for World AIDS Day...
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 two primary school life skills teachers, Ma Chabaemang (right) and Ma Leabile (center), stand...
The people seen here are part of large farming family from a small pueblito in Mexico. They go out together to their milpa in the country every Sunday to do whatever is needed to raise maize, peppers, beans, squash, and marigolds (for religious...
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...
Although tanks of natural gas are available in this small pueblito in Queretaro, Mexico, families here still cook on open wood fires to a large extent. Trucks selling gas make themselves noisily known as they drive through town with music blaring...