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- Positive and Negative Brotherhood
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This photo was taken in November of 2011 in central Swaziland. Two boys are walking home from school, one is HIV positive and the other HIV negative. Swaziland has a HIV prevalence between 26-33% percent depending on what study you are looking... - Volunteer Photos
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- Creative Teaching
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This photo was taken at a school in central Swaziland in November of 2011. The students had been exposed to HIV messages for years, but this was their first interactive lesson. The lesson (and subsequent lessons) were very successful. Students... - Volunteer Photos
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- Pointed in the Right Direction
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Children; HIV-AIDS -
A Community WORTH group was meeting in the lowveld of Swaziland in Feburary of 2012. WORTH groups consist of 20-30 women who meet to discuss HIV issues and work on micro finance. When women are able to pull together and succeed, the OVC in that... - Volunteer Photos
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- Old Enough to Know a Good Thing
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HIV-AIDS; Elders -
This photo was taken during a community WORTH meeting in Swaziland. This woman walks more then 40 minutes every week to meet with other women and gain knowledge both of HIV/AIDS prevention and micro-fiance. Well into her 70's and with five... - Volunteer Photos
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- English party at school
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My counterpart decided on a whim one day to have an "English party." For two weeks, our students, who barely knew any English, rehearsed "Sleeping Beauty." They made all their own props and costumes and memorized their lines from a book my aunt... - Volunteer Photos
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- Faces Full of Books
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This is the first time our English classroom in Darkhan Village, Kyrygzstan, has had good textbooks. They came our way through a private donation from the U.S. Here is a group of 3rd graders, proudly showing off their colorful new books. - Volunteer Photos
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- Let's Go: Learning a Third Language
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In the school where I worked in Darkhan Village, Kyrgyzstan, students like these two 3rd-grade girls use the cyrillic alphabet in all their classes. They can speak Kyrgyz and Russian, but learning English is difficult, because they have to learn a... - Volunteer Photos
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- An Afternoon Rainbow
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The day my host sister, Begaim, announced that she was getting married, a summer afternoon rain shower gave way to a dramatic double rainbow in my small village in eastern Kyrgyzstan. We rushed outside to take pictures. Here, my youngest host... - Volunteer Photos
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- A Cultural Exchange through Snowboarding
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Here is Azamat, hiking back up the hill with my snowboard for another run. Azamat was helping us collect firewood for a winter tourism project deep in the Terskey Ala-Too range of the Tien Shan mountains of Kyrgyzstan. At the end of the day, our... - Volunteer Photos
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- A Kyrgyz Yurt in a Snow Storm
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Peace Corps takes you to some far-out places. This is me, posing in front of a yurt during a blizzard. The yurt was about four miles above a small village in eastern Kyrgyzstan called Ichkey-Jergez, nestled in the foothills of the Terskey Ala-Too... - Volunteer Photos
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- Relaxing on the South Shore
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A lone sunbather rests on the southern shore of Lake Issyk-Kul, Kyrgyzstan, while a throng of sheep search for grass in the sand. While the north shore of the lake is quite developed and popular with tourists, the south shore still offers serenity... - Volunteer Photos
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- Besh Barmak
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Celebrations; Food and meals; Animals; Ceremonies - Volunteer Stories
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