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...
Pre-service training (PST); Volunteers; Art; Education
In an effort to nurture creativity, the training staff engaged the Volunteers in a group mural painting exercise. We all made contributions and learned collective creative thinking. But it didn't do much for our painting skills.
I painted this world map mural on the outside of the primary school in La Cruz de Abangares, Costa Rica. It has every country in the world in Spanish, as well as inspirational quotes on the sides that I took from Martin Luther King, Jr. Together...
This photo is a shot of several cultural paintings on the exterior of the primary school in La Cruz de Abangares, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. Included in this photo are the Guanacaste Tree, the phrase "Orgullosamente Guanacasteco," or "proudly...
I painted this mural of a couple dancing, in traditional Guanacaste dress, on the exterior of the primary school in La Cruz de Abangares, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. It is part of a large mural project I led with the students consisting of cultural...
This mural of the Guanacaste tree, a national Costa Rican cultural symbol, was painted by students of the primary school in La Cruz de Abangares! It is part of a large mural project I led consisting of several cultural paintings on the exterior of...
I painted this world map mural on the outside of the primary school in my assigned community of La Cruz de Abangares, Costa Rica. Several of the students painted the Costa Rica and Guanacaste (province) flags next to the world map. Together with...
I painted this world map mural on the outside of the primary school in my assigned community of La Cruz de Abangares, Costa Rica. It has every country in the world in Spanish, as well as inspirational quotes on the sides that I took from Martin...
I took this photo on April 4, 2011 at my community's elementary school in Costa Rica. First through sixth graders participated in a drawing competition that I put together. The top 25 drawings were selected by the school teachers and staff to be...
The photo is of the mural that was designed and painted on the compost facility that the US Embassy in Senegal funded. There is also another compost facility that the City of Joal in Senegal funded. The Mural depicts the many stages of the solid...
Ronald Webster was the Chief Minister of Anguilla who insisted Anguilla needed a Social Security Program for the people of the island. In spite of heavy opposition from people concerned about the corrupt use of the funds generated by the program,...
There are 4 murals that depict the history of Anguilla from the time of Columbus, to the present day, circa 1981. This was painted by a local artist as a gift to the people of Anguilla, and is from a mural in the main government building.
This photo is of the painted Easter Eggs my host family and I decorated in March 2009. Moldova is an Orthodox country that follow both the Romanian and Russian Orthodox calendar. Religious holidays are of great importance in Moldova including...
Volunteer Caroline Mackenzie working with two young disabled children from the Association of Young Disabled of Eastern Donbass Region, Luhansk, Ukraine, attending the National Talent Contest.