This is my family, they took care of me my entire two years of service. I love them as my own family. This picture was taken on my last Sunday at site, we are all dressed from church and preparing to eat the feast the family cooked in my honor.
I helped my town, Nueva Esperanza, secure a grant from Pfizer Pharmeceutical. Pfizer donated all the building materials for a health clinic and sent doctors and medicine for the opening. We had to build it. The response from my town was...
celebrations; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); youth development
I took this photo at a sleep over with the graduating Chicas Poderosas (Powerful Girls) group that I started in my town, Nueva Esperanza de Cano Negro, Los Chiles, Alajuela, Costa Rica. After two months the girls had completed a workbook, service...
This photo is taken in the Eastern Province, Zambia. I took this photo last January when I was building a preschool in their village. As we were finishing the building, the children were attending school in the one finished block of the building....
This photo was taken in January 2011 in Honduras in a small convenience store where Ashley Bass (Peace Corps Youth Development Volunteer) is playing with two young boys - Janier Aaron and Marvin Maradiaga - who will be receiving club foot...
A common sight next to an outdoor kitchen in Tonga. Here, a young Tongan girl sits among a large pile of coconuts. Coconuts play an extremely important role in the Tongan peoples lives from a source of food to potholders and pot cleaners as well as...
This photo was taken on May 30, 2012 during a workshop my counterpart Leonor Vargas and I gave to ninth graders on VIH/AIDS. The woman in the picture is Leonor. We made the poster shown with the ways of transmission, and with the students one by...
I took this photo at the end of an English club with young learners during the spring 2011 semester. We studied sea and beach vocabulary (because we live by the sea) by drawing pictures on the blackboard and labeling them in both Russian and...
I took this photo during an English Corner at Bijie University where we discussed AIDS and the impact it can have on a community. Every week Bijie University, in Guizhou, China holds an English corner where students from all different majors come...
This photo was taken during a health lesson with a women's group in a village in Guatemala. We were discussing the presence of germs and how they enter the body. Since the majority of women in rural Guatemala have low literacy levels, lessons are...
Ishiwi lya Abanna, voice of the children, made a statement on December 1, 2010 in Zambia to fight against stigma and educate their community on HIV/AIDS. Here we have a peer educator and a small boy putting their head and hand together in unity....
This photo was taken on May 30, 2012 during an HIV/AIDS workshop with ninth graders in Colombia. It was my counterpart, Leonor Vargas' and I's first workshop with the students after the HIV/AIDS conference in May 2012. We covered stigma and...
I took this photo during my parents' visit to Malawi on Jan. 2, 2007. A previous Peace Corps volunteer at my site had taught this store owner to play Scrabble and left him this board when he finished his service. He was very good at the game when...
I live in Mali, West Africa. I'm a health Volunteer and get to bike along the Niger River everyday as I travel to work at the Cscom. My favorite part of my daily ride is passing by "Mini Dioro," a small island surrounded by the beauty of the Niger...
This photo was taken on May 30, 2012 during a workshop my counterpart and I gave to a class of ninth graders. This is Leonor Vargas, my counterpart, and a ninth grade student. We are doing a dinamica to show the students how people use all kinds of...
Ishiwi lya Abanna, meaning voice of the children, was a group created at a school for youth to have a safe haven to express themselves through creativity. On World AIDS Day, December 1, 2010, the children marched 15 kilometers through their...
Ishiwi lya Abanna, meaning voice of the children was a group created a schooll for youth to have a safe haven to express themselves through creativity. On World AIDS Day, December 1, 2010, the children marched 15 kilometers through their community...
Ishiwi lya Abanna, meaning voice of the children was a group created at a school for youth to have a safe haven to express themselves through creativity. On World AIDS Day, December 1, 2010, the children marched 15 kilometers through their...