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    • We are Taking Control

    • We are Taking Control

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo is was taken at Uukwiyuushona Combined School on the 28th of June 2012 during HIV/AIDS Awareness Week, established by the government of Namibia. This photo was organized with the theme of reducing and eliminating stigma and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • We Got Vaccinated!!!

    • We Got Vaccinated!!!

    • Medicine; Children

    • Vaccination day is a busy day at the "Case de Sante" (health hut) in Affem Kabye, Togo. The health hut did not have refrigeration so we did not stock vaccinations. Instead the health workers from the Hopsital in Tchamba (20 km away) would send us...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • We Three

    • We Three

    • Housing; Traditional dress; Children

    • In our house on the compound of Akrokerr Teacher Training College. Traditional Kente cloth hangs on the wall, Adinkra cloth covers the table.
    • 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
    • Wedding Bliss

    • Wedding Bliss

    • Weddings; Celebrations; Dance; Traditional dress

    • The midwife at a local clinic celebrates on her wedding day in Burkina Faso. The bride is dancing with friends during a Muslim wedding celebration where friends stick money on her while singing and dancing. People all around are using technology...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Welcome to Diawarala!

    • Welcome to Diawarala!
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    • This photo is of me showing off the sign I made welcoming in French and Bambara and English the Peace Corps Director and an employee from Peace Corps Washington to the hamlet of 600 people I lived in. I overlapped by six months with another...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Welcoming Guests

    • Welcoming Guests

    • Host community friends; Volunteers; Traditional dress

    • I took the time to welcome all the guests who made it to the opening ceremony of the Centre de Creativite d'Adeta in my village of Adeta, Togo, including the smallest ones. The ceremony dedicated the new center to the village of Adeta and was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Well Work and Field Based Training

    • Well Work and Field Based Training

    • Pre-service Training (PST); Environment; Water and Sanitation

    • This is a photo of a field base training that I set up in my village Koporo-pen. We were doing a top well repair and another Volunteer and I took that opportunity to train Peace Corps trainees as well as our own village masons. We brought some...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • West African Skateboarding

    • West African Skateboarding

    • Markets; Host community; Volunteers

    • In February 2010, a fellow volunteer Coleman, got a package from the United States with his old skateboard. We were both volunteers in rural Burkina Faso so we took advantage of the few days we had off in Burkina's capital, Ouagadougou, where there...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • What Stigma in the Community Looks Like

    • What Stigma in the Community Looks Like

    • HIV/AIDS

    • A male caregiver and youth leader demonstrate what 'stigma in the community' looks like in a role play that was part of a two day Stigma Symposium held in South Africa in November, 2011. Here the older man helps his young friend while community...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • What the Tourists Didn't See

    • What the Tourists Didn't See

    • Business development

    • That’s Dirck Kuzatjike in the gray jacket. He stands in front of the white board he has borrowed from my office in order to host a meeting on the street corner. All the people gathered around him are members of his organization, the Young...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • What's cookin?

    • What's cookin?

    • food and meals

    • Improved cook stoves that is! When I first arrived in my village of Adeta, Togo I tackled some projects that many of us learn in our first months of training. It was an easy way to engage with members of my community in some basic grassroots...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • When the Battle Begins

    • When the Battle Begins

    • Environment; Children; Terrain

    • A village on the west coast of Madagascar, August 16th, 2011. A long day. Walked over 20 kilometers… 10 km to go, 10 km on the way back, and back and forth on the beach depending where the small boats full of fish would arrive. I had gotten up...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Who Knows the Answer?

    • Who Knows the Answer?

    • Celebrations; Games

    • I took this photo during a World AIDS Day event at the end of November, 2011 at a primary school in Swaziland. World AIDS Day is a great event held yearly in order to educate children and adults alike in the community, an important and fun way to...
    • 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
    • Wild Horses

    • Wild Horses

    • environment

    • Not only one of the Rolling Stones greatest hits, but great subjects for this photo. this was taken in 1990 on a hike with a road engineer named Jeff. It was without a doubt the coldest hike I have ever been on in my life.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Wind Is Your Friend

    • Wind Is Your Friend

    • Agriculture

    • Strong winds may kick up a lot of dust in the Far North of Cameroon, but the Kapsiki women here use this force of nature to separate beans and grains from there protective layers. January 27th, 2012.
    • Volunteer Photos

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