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    • Coconuts

    • Coconuts

    • Children; Agriculture

    • A common sight next to an outdoor kitchen in Tonga. Here, a young Tongan girl sits among a large pile of coconuts. Coconuts play an extremely important role in the Tongan peoples lives from a source of food to potholders and pot cleaners as well as...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Women Making Tapa

    • Women Making Tapa

    • Artisans; Crafts; Art

    • Women from a small village on the island of 'Eua spend the day painting tapa cloth. These cloths can be up to 50 feet long and are made from the bark of a tree. The cloths, once finished are given as gifts at many events, such as weddings,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • A Family Gained

    • A Family Gained

    • Host families; Traditional dress

    • This is my family, they took care of me my entire two years of service. I love them as my own family. This picture was taken on my last Sunday at site, we are all dressed from church and preparing to eat the feast the family cooked in my honor.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Health Lesson in Rural Guatemala

    • Health Lesson in Rural Guatemala

    • Health; Education

    • This photo was taken during a health lesson with a women's group in a village in Guatemala. We were discussing the presence of germs and how they enter the body. Since the majority of women in rural Guatemala have low literacy levels, lessons are...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Club Foot Medical Brigade in Honduras

    • Club Foot Medical Brigade in Honduras

    • Health

    • This photo was taken in January 2011 in Honduras in a small convenience store where Ashley Bass (Peace Corps Youth Development Volunteer) is playing with two young boys - Janier Aaron and Marvin Maradiaga - who will be receiving club foot...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Chicas Poderosas

    • Chicas Poderosas

    • celebrations; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); youth development

    • I took this photo at a sleep over with the graduating Chicas Poderosas (Powerful Girls) group that I started in my town, Nueva Esperanza de Cano Negro, Los Chiles, Alajuela, Costa Rica. After two months the girls had completed a workbook, service...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Building a Health Clinic

    • Building a Health Clinic

    • health; host community friends; construction

    • I helped my town, Nueva Esperanza, secure a grant from Pfizer Pharmeceutical. Pfizer donated all the building materials for a health clinic and sent doctors and medicine for the opening. We had to build it. The response from my town was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • English Club

    • English Club

    • education;

    • I took this photo at the end of an English club with young learners during the spring 2011 semester. We studied sea and beach vocabulary (because we live by the sea) by drawing pictures on the blackboard and labeling them in both Russian and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Mini Dioro

    • Mini Dioro

    • Terrain

    • I live in Mali, West Africa. I'm a health Volunteer and get to bike along the Niger River everyday as I travel to work at the Cscom. My favorite part of my daily ride is passing by "Mini Dioro," a small island surrounded by the beauty of the Niger...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Hand in Hand

    • Hand in Hand

    • HIV-AIDS

    • I took this photo during an English Corner at Bijie University where we discussed AIDS and the impact it can have on a community. Every week Bijie University, in Guizhou, China holds an English corner where students from all different majors come...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Prevention through Murals

    • Prevention through Murals

    • HIV/AIDS; Art

    • This photo was taken in Biikira Parish, Rakai district, in Southern Uganda. It is on the wall of the maternity ward at St. Joseph Health Center III. The student, John Paul, is painting a mural that encourages pregnant HIV positive women to go for...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Learning to Prevent

    • Learning to Prevent

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken on May 30, 2012 during an HIV/AIDS workshop with ninth graders in Colombia. It was my counterpart, Leonor Vargas' and I's first workshop with the students after the HIV/AIDS conference in May 2012. We covered stigma and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Nombres de la Calle

    • Nombres de la Calle

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken on May 30, 2012 during a workshop my counterpart and I gave to a class of ninth graders. This is Leonor Vargas, my counterpart, and a ninth grade student. We are doing a dinamica to show the students how people use all kinds of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Como se transmite?

    • Como se transmite?

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken on May 30, 2012 during a workshop my counterpart Leonor Vargas and I gave to ninth graders on VIH/AIDS. The woman in the picture is Leonor. We made the poster shown with the ways of transmission, and with the students one by...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Ishiwi lya Abanna

    • Ishiwi lya Abanna

    • HIV/AIDS

    • Ishiwi lya Abanna, voice of the children, made a statement on December 1, 2010 in Zambia to fight against stigma and educate their community on HIV/AIDS. Here we have a peer educator and a small boy putting their head and hand together in unity....
    • Volunteer Photos

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