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    • Eating Noodles - Step Two: Chew

    • Eating Noodles - Step Two: Chew

    • Food and meals; Children; Traditional dress

    • One-year old Ta is eating noodles while her mother prepares the kindergarden classroom for the new term. It took Ta a while to eat, but she finished the whole bowl set in front of her. This picture was taken in Thailand on April 2011 by Volunteer...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Earthquake Drill

    • Earthquake Drill

    • Natural disasters; Life skills

    • This photo was taken at a local school during an earthquake drill conducted by the Provincial Disaster Risk Reduction & Management Council of Roxas City, Philippines. The students are instructed to duck, cover, and hold during the drill and then to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • During the Rain...

    • During the Rain...

    • host community friends; children

    • This was during the beginning weeks of the wet season in El Salvador. Rosemary, my 12 year old neighbor, was sitting so peacefully watching the rain while off to the side her cousin was reading outloud a book from school. The afternoon went on and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Drumming up Support

    • Drumming up Support

    • HIV/AIDS; Celebrations; Dance

    • This is a photo from a caravan style publicity parade for an event with the CECOJE (Center for youth counseling and peer education - particularly surrounding health) in Mamou, Guinea, that I and my partner organization Population Services...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Drama Camp 2

    • Drama Camp 2

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I organized a youth drama camp in the Mwinilunga area of Zambia as one of my health education projects in December 2012. Drama groups from the district competed at a World AIDS Day performance event, and the five winning teams were selected for a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Drama Camp 1

    • Drama Camp 1

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I organized a youth drama camp in the Mwinilunga area of Zambia as one of my health education projects. Drama groups from the district competed at a World AIDS Day performance event, and the five winning teams were selected for a spot in the camp,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Down Time

    • Down Time

    • Sports

    • Soccer is almost as sacred to life as religion in Honduras. If there are five minutes to spare, someone will always manage to find a ball, and a pickup game of soccer will commence. This idea is not lost on Peace Corps Volunteers, and we quickly...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Double Epidemic

    • Double Epidemic

    • HIV/AIDS

    • An elderly woman infected with HIV takes her TB medicine with food in the presence of a home-based worker in the morning in South Africa on June 16, 2011. HIV has fueled a TB epidemic in South Africa as well as many other countries.
    • 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
    • Do Unto Others.....

    • Do Unto Others.....

    • celebrations; traditional dress; religion

    • When you look closely at this picture, you will notice that the monk's robe is totally wet. For two hours prior to this photo everyone in the village was celebrating the Thai New Year (Songkran), which is April 13-15. During the celebration...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Diversity Days

    • Diversity Days

    • Music

    • In Panama on July 19, 2012, the students of the local school put on a series of skits and musical performances to show appreciation to Padres de Familia.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Diversity Days

    • Diversity Days

    • Music

    • This photo was taken during the Youth Day activities at my school on February 11th 2011; it shows me dancing with a student on campus. The school administration organized an event with music and dancing for the students on the campus of the school.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dedoplistskaro's AIDS Ribbon

    • Dedoplistskaro's AIDS Ribbon

    • HIV/AIDS

    • The photo was a spur of the moment idea that quickly bloomed into a school wide effort. The Ministry of Education in Georgia held a health-related photo contest on Facebook, with different schools submitting their own photos. They asked me if I...
    • Volunteer Photos

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