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    • Standing Up Against HIV

    • Standing Up Against HIV

    • HIV-AIDS; Drama

    • This photo was taken during a workshop on female sexual health in the primary school of a rural farming community. The photo shows Selena Martinez as an HIV virus, surrounded by crouching girls, whom demonstrated white blood cells letting down...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Stirring the Pap

    • Stirring the Pap

    • food and meals

    • Cassie helps prepare pap by violently stirring it until it is thick in consistency, while a woman supervises the effort. Pap is a flavorless corn-based food popular in South Africa. February 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Stomp Out Malaria - Mosquito Netting Project Crew

    • Stomp Out Malaria - Mosquito Netting Project Crew

    • Malaria; Schools; Youth; Site development

    • The photo was taken at the completion of the mosquito netting project in Mozambique. The goal of the project was to prevent malaria by putting up new mosquito netting in all windows and plant lemon grass outside of the classrooms to deter...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • 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
    • Stop AIDS, Love Life

    • Stop AIDS, Love Life

    • HIV/AIDS

    • After having completed our first HIV/AIDS meeting ever at our senior high school, we went around teaching them the "Stop AIDS, Love Life" handshake which everyone fell in love with. This photo was taken this year, 2012, after my form 2 students...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • STOP and Think!

    • STOP and Think!

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo is of two of the local preschool children in Swaziland. Learning about 'STOPPING' and thinking before you go near someone else's blood. The children learned the common 'stop' hand signal when learning about HIV and proudly displayed it...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Students at Orphanage Camp Learning English

    • Students at Orphanage Camp Learning English

    • youth; education

    • Eager to learn, level three students at an orphanage camp in Rabat are writing their daily lesson. They are excited to learn what I was going to teach them next. These young minds are full of questions about proper ways of writing and speaking...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Students Teaching Each Others

    • Students Teaching Each Others

    • youth; environment

    • After an environmental trash pick-up activity and lesson in Ait Ben Haddou, Morocco, we’ve divided the students in groups and asked them to present what they have learned from the activity and how they envision a healthy environment to be.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sunset on the River

    • Sunset on the River

    • Host families

    • This is a photo of my host brother standing on the edge of the River Paraguay, that I took during training. It was the first trip I had taken to the River Paraguay with my host family. Another Peace Corps Volunteer also came along with her host...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Supermen

    • Supermen

    • Camps and clubs; Celebrations

    • Chicos Superman is a program for boys aged 10-14 to meet and talk about positive self-esteem, values, and HIV/AIDS prevention. In May 2012, this group met to make Mother's Day cards for their moms. Their appreciation for their mothers' is one...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Supermen

    • Supermen

    • Host community friends

    • This photo was taken July 2012. My friend came to visit me and we were walking through my barrio with my host nieces. This is a beautiful view of what I get to see everyday.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sylvie at the Waduk

    • Sylvie at the Waduk

    • children

    • This photo was taken during my first few weeks at site (June 2011). It's an incredibly difficult transitional time but the children in my village embraced me and took me in like one of their own best friends. We went exploring by bicycle, children...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Take a Bite

    • Take a Bite

    • Host community friends; Volunteers; Traditional dress

    • The children in my village have taken me in at their big sister, calling me "kakak" rather than my actual name. It's heart-warming. They love to take me to the sugarcane fields that surround our village. They run with knifes, and it makes me...
    • Volunteer Photos

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