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- Above the Horizon
- Games; Youth
- On August 23, 2011, a girl plays a game in which you must leap and successfully get your feet over an elastic string. Two children were holding the ends of the string and moved it higher and higher with each jump. Orphans and vulnerable children...
- Volunteer Photos
- Solemn Mourning
- Funerals; Traditional dress
- Cathy (foreground) and Barb attended the funeral of a fellow trainee's host father in South Africa in February 2011. Women are traditionally required to cover their heads at funerals, which typically begin before sunrise.
- Volunteer Photos
- Community Burial
- funerals; traditional dress
- Trainees witness the burial of Danielle's (second from right) host father in February 2011 in South Africa. There were more than a thousand people at the funeral because the deceased was a distinguished member of the community and closely related...
- Volunteer Photos
- 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
- Jumping to the Finish Line
- games; youth
- A boy makes his best effort to win a race in which you must jump with a balloon between your knees to the finish line. His competitor's balloon popped soon after the word "Go!" The race was just one of many activities offered to the children of...
- Volunteer Photos
- Choir
- music; schools; counterparts
- A teacher, and school choir conductor, takes a bow after her learners sing the national anthem at an inter-school cultural and art competition in South Africa on August 30, 2011.
- Volunteer Photos
- Matthew and the keyboard
- technology; education
- I took this photo on September 6th, 2011 in the newly completed computer lab at Ramotshinyadi HIV/AIDS Youth Guide in South Africa. This was the first computer class in the lab, and was provided to seven local youths, most of whom had never used a...
- Volunteer Photos
- A Medical Ritual
- HIV/AIDS
- A woman infected with HIV takes her TB medicine in the presence of a home-based worker on June 16, 2011, in Mangata, South Africa. To ensure on going treatment of a patient to slow the spread of TB, meds must be taken with a health worker present.
- Volunteer Photos
- A Friendly Visit
- HIV/AIDS
- A woman infected with HIV shares a smile with her family and a home-based care worker (foreground) who was visiting to ensure the woman was continuing her TB treatment. Taken in Mangata, South Africa on June 16, 2011.
- Volunteer Photos
- Just Listening
- HIV/AIDS
- Instead of meeting outside on a rainy day, my youth group listens to a podcast about the HIV/AIDS crisis on my computer in a classroom at a school in South Africa on March 16, 2012. Everyone, including Nicholus, and his girlfriend Fairytale, payed...
- Volunteer Photos
- Double Epidemic
- HIV/AIDS
- An elderly woman infected with HIV takes her TB medicine with food in the presence of a home-based worker in the morning in South Africa on June 16, 2011. HIV has fueled a TB epidemic in South Africa as well as many other countries.
- Volunteer Photos
- Child with Gogo
- HIV/AIDS
- A gogo (grandmother) takes her TB medicine with food during a visit by a home-based care worker on the morning of June 16, 2011, while her grandson sits across the table. She is one of the many people in South Africa affected by both HIV and TB....
- Volunteer Photos
- Child and Father
- HIV/AIDS
- A boy still has banana residue on his mouth after taking his medicine to treat TB as his father sits in the background. The child likely was infected with TB by his mother, who is also HIV positive. The HIV pandemic has created TB epidemics in some...
- Volunteer Photos