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    • 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
    • Promoting Water Conservation

    • Promoting Water Conservation

    • Children; Natural disasters; Art; Secondary projects; Water and sanitation

    • Following the tsunami of 2009, Peace Corps Volunteers partnered with the Red Cross to promote water conservation and provide an afternoon of enjoyment in the midst of sadness and loss. Volunteers from groups 80, 81 and 82, led by Volunteer Joey...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Ribbon Painting

    • Ribbon Painting

    • HIV-AIDS; Art

    • On World AIDS Day teenage boys paint a red ribbon on the side of the Volunteer’s house after a series of workshops on HIV/AIDS.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Russian Festival

    • Russian Festival

    • Celebrations; Traditional Dress; Art

    • This was taken during a community Festival of Russian Culture in Vilkova, southern Ukraine. Many choruses participated - all with colorful costumes! This is a renowned wine-growing region, which is why a big bunch of grapes is featured as part of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Shopping in the Art Market

    • Shopping in the Art Market

    • Markets

    • This photo was taken August 2009 at the art mark on Stefan cel Mare street in the center of Moldova's capital Chisinau. This art market is widely known around Moldova for its handicrafts including the Moldovan designed stacking dolls that can be...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Student Mural at Radu Recreation Center

    • Student Mural at Radu Recreation Center

    • youth development; art

    • Students are working with a local entrepreneur in Moldova to convert one floor in her building into a youth recreation center. One of their projects is to paint a mural of images and words that are important or have special meaning to the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Teaching Peace Through Art

    • Teaching Peace Through Art

    • Art

    • Two young dar chebab (youth center) students in Morocco participated in creating an art mural for the dar chebab where Volunteer Elizabeth Chon taught the students how to paint properly and the meaning behind the art mural.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Teamwork on the mural!

    • Teamwork on the mural!

    • Host community; Art

    • This photo was taken in the fall of 2009, soon after I arrived in my first village of in northeastern Bulgaria. We painted a mural together that featured the Bulgarian and American flags, different kinds of people, peace doves, and beautiful...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Art of Silk Weaving

    • The Art of Silk Weaving

    • Artisans; Host community friends

    • I took this photo during one of my visits to a silk weaving group in my community. I was located in a subdistrict of 13 villages. Almost every house in every village had a weaving loom -all day you would hear the wood hitting the loom to make the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Recent History of Anguilla

    • The Recent History of Anguilla

    • Art

    • 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.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Shkodra Owl

    • The Shkodra Owl

    • Signs; Art

    • This drawing was submitted to the Peace Corps Albania newsletter, Hajde! Hajde! in 2008. It depicts a Volunteer rendition of one of the local animals, a one-eyed owl kept safely dog chained at a popular crossroads coffee bar. The owl came to be an...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Traditional Guanacaste Dance

    • Traditional Guanacaste Dance

    • Schools; Art

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Transporting Computers

    • Transporting Computers

    • art; technology

    • This is a photo of an original watercolor painted by a fellow PCV. It depicts one of my secondary projects - bringing donated computers to my school by whatever means necessary. I was a teacher at Khwalala Day Secondary School, Mulanje District,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Under the Palaver Tree

    • Under the Palaver Tree

    • Art

    • While serving in Liberia, West Africa in 1981-82, I was stationed in Cape Palmas teaching Architecture. Because I am an artist I made many watercolor studies of the people and their environments throughout the area. Now I have revived several of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Village Art Day

    • Village Art Day

    • children; environment

    • On May 25, 2010, in the small Georgian village of Kvibisi, our Business and Social Entrepreneurship group conducted an Art Day for children in the village. In small groups, the kids used art supplies and natural elements like twigs and berries to...
    • Volunteer Photos

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