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    • Working with Orphans

    • Working with Orphans

    • Art; Teachers and students

    • This photo was taken at a health center in Ethiopia. The Volunteer is encouraging children who were orphaned by HIV to be creative and express themselves using art (paper and markers).
    • World AIDS 2010 Day Media Event

    • World AIDS 2010 Day Media Event

    • HIV/AIDS; Media coverage

    • This photo was taken during the West Regional Project in Bafoussam, Cameroon on World AIDS Day 2010- an event working with 22 Peer Educators. Volunteers and host country nationals met in the regional capital and paraded, passed out condoms (male...
    • World AIDS Day 2007 Bawku

    • World AIDS Day 2007 Bawku

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo of a World AIDS Day Voluntary Counseling and Testing for HIV (VCT) promotion banner right outside the Bawku hospital in the Upper East Region of Ghana. I worked with the other Volunteers in the Upper East Region to help make this...
    • 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...
    • World AIDS Day 2009

    • World AIDS Day 2009

    • Children; Celebrations; HIV/AIDS

    • This photo is of a group of Pandamatenga Primary School students in my village (Pandamatenga), who won the National Drama Competition for this years skit on HIV prevention. They performed in December 2009 at the World AIDS Day Celebration in...
    • World AIDS Day 2011

    • World AIDS Day 2011

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This is a photo I took on World AIDS Day 2011 at the Lycee Bokito in Cameroon. We worked with the high school students to prepare speeches, video screenings, contests, and a testing center to raise awareness of the illness and promote prevention....
    • World AIDS Day 2011 in Burkina Faso

    • World AIDS Day 2011 in Burkina Faso

    • HIV/AIDS; Celebrations; Art

    • Volunteers Luis, Scott, and Joey commemorate World AIDS day 2011 with their community in Burkina Faso. The mural was a great way to get the community interested in talking about HIV/AIDS. The Volunteers held multiple information sessions on...
    • World Aids Day Celebration

    • World Aids Day Celebration

    • Celebrations; HIV/AIDS

    • For World Aids Day 2010, the community gathered together to put on an amazing event. The community experienced performances from students and youth, HIV education, personal testimonies from people living with HIV, condom demonstrations,...
    • 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...
    • World AIDS Day Mural

    • World AIDS Day Mural

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This picture was taken at my local market, in a village in Burkina Faso. We were celebrating World AIDS Day 2011 by creating a mural with HIV/AIDS prevention images and explaining those images to the public. We played games, asked the audience...
    • World AIDS Day Poster and Presenters

    • World AIDS Day Poster and Presenters

    • HIV/AIDS

    • 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...
    • World AIDS Day Presenter in Afrika Borwa

    • World AIDS Day Presenter in Afrika Borwa

    • HIV/AIDS

    • 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...
    • World AIDS Day, getting to zero.

    • World AIDS Day, getting to zero.

    • HIV/AIDS

    • 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...
    • World Fair

    • World Fair

    • Education; Camps and clubs

    • Volunteers from the region of Sikasso in Mali, West Africa conduct a World Fair to help kids learn about different countries and cultures.
    • World Malaria Activities

    • World Malaria Activities

    • Drama

    • This picture was taken in Cotonou Benin in June 2010 (late Malaria Day celebrations). A theatrical group form Allada Benin was hired to put on a skit about malaria. In this scene, the girl standing is acting as a mosquito and is showing how she...

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