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    • Youth HIV/AIDS Workshop

    • Youth HIV/AIDS Workshop

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo during the Makira Island Youth HIV/AIDS workshop on July 6th, 2011, on Makira Island, Vanuatu. It was a one-day workshop focusing on teaching the youth of the island about HIV/AIDS. The workshop was broken up into four sections...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth Film-Makers Against HIV/AIDS

    • Youth Film-Makers Against HIV/AIDS

    • HIV/AIDS; Youth development

    • During my first year living in my community in Nicaragua, I loved spending my afternoons working with a youth group making videos about the community. After a while it became too much to continue editing all of the footage myself and so with a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth Development In The Sun

    • Youth Development In The Sun

    • Celebrations; Host community friends; games

    • This photo was taken on July 9, 2011 in Bulgaria, with a group of four youth volunteers who were performing activities as a part of the Peace Corps' 20th/50th anniversary commemoration. In the photo the volunteers and I are attempting to make a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Youth Day Parade

    • Youth Day Parade

    • HIV/AIDS; Camps and clubs

    • This photo was taken February 11, 2010 on Cameroon's National Youth Day. The students marching are high school students who were members of Club Reglo, or Youth Club, in my post of Banyo, Cameroon. These students were trained as peer educators...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yoga

    • Yoga

    • Sports; Pre-service training (PST)

    • I took this picture in August 2010 during my pre-service training in Cambodia. This photo shows a group of my fellow Volunteers practicing yoga during some free time in one Volunteer's host family's wooden home.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Ya-ee

    • Ya-ee

    • Host families

    • I took this photo in December 2010 in Cambodia. The photo shows my ya-ee (Khmer language for grandmother) fanning herself on another hot Cambodian day.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World AIDS Day in Kolofata

    • World AIDS Day in Kolofata

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo in December of 2012 at a high school in Cameroon. The Health Club and Girls Empowerment Club partnered together to hold a series of events for the school population to commemorate World AIDS Day. The most popular part was the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World Aids Day 2011

    • World Aids Day 2011

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken during a World Aids Day observance in Lovech, Bulgaria in 2011. Youth volunteers from the Bulgarian Red Cross spent the afternoon passing out brochures, condoms, etc. in the Lovech city center. The event culminated with the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World AIDS Day 2007 in Galilaya, Uganda

    • World AIDS Day 2007 in Galilaya, Uganda

    • HIV/AIDS

    • Galilaya is a fishing village located on Lake Kyoga at one of the northern most points in Kayunga District. Makerere University Walter Reed Project (MUWRP) collaborated with a Peace Corps Volunteer, Katherine Peters to do HIV education in Kayunga...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Whoa There!

    • Whoa There!

    • Celebrations; Animals

    • This photo was taken in May 2008 in Tibati, Cameroon, during the town's annual Independence Day parade. This horseman was getting a bit out of control with all of the crowd's oh's and ahh's.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • What is That?

    • What is That?

    • Drama; HIV-AIDS

    • In the scene from the Acting Out Awareness play, the AIDS virus has just appeared in the world. The virus, represented by the actor in red, is surrounded by the four corners of the world, represented by the four actors in white. Here, the four...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Weighing Babies for Maternal and Child Health 3

    • Weighing Babies for Maternal and Child Health 3

    • Maternal and child health

    • Each week at the local dispensary we have maternal and child health day where, moms bring in their infants and babies to be weighed, update immunizations, and make sure their baby is developing normally. This photo was taken of me at one of these...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Weaving Mats

    • Weaving Mats

    • Crafts; Host families

    • This photo was taken in September 2009 during Peace Corps training while I was staying with my host family. My host mother and auntie were teaching me how to weave mats on the weekends. I (Bina Contreras) am on the left, my host mother "Mama...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Water Festival

    • Water Festival

    • Children; Celebrations

    • This photo was taken in November 2010 Cambodia during the National Water Festival. In this photo three children are watching a boat race.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Watching the Games

    • Watching the Games

    • schools; children

    • This photo was taken in July, 2011 during an school track and field competition at the primary teachers college where I serve as an education volunteer. Despite my lack of technical knowledge on track and field events, I helped run practices...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wat in Cambodia

    • Wat in Cambodia

    • Architecture

    • I took this photo on a clear day during my training in July 2010 in Cambodia. I went to this pagoda to study language with another Volunteer and we were captivated by the beauty. This photo depicts the roof of one pagoda.
    • Volunteer Photos

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