This photo was taken on March, 2010 in Karfigula, Burkina Faso during a camp for young girls. The camp used soccer as a tool to educate girls on HIV/AIDS. The photo shows Peace Corps volunteer, Brandon Perkins, and Burkinabe counterpart, leading a...
This photo was taken on in March 2010, in Karfigula, Burkina Faso during HIV/AIDS education camp for girls. The camp, organized by four volunteers, used soccer as a means to educate girls from around Burkina Faso on HIV/AIDS. This photo shows a...
This photo was taken in March 2010, in Karfigula, Burkina Faso during an HIV/AIDS educational camp for girls. The camp, organized by 4 volunteers, brought girls from all over Burkina Faso to learn about HIV/AIDS through soccer. Many of the girls...
I took this photo on April 14, 2011, while visiting a fellow Volunteer for an Easter celebration. When we climbed a small bluff that overlooks a small city in southeastern Burkina Faso, we were accompanied by a bevy of school children known by my...
This photo was taken on November 12, 2010, a month into the training of the 23rd group of Volunteers to serve in Burkina Faso. The Small Enterprise Development Volunteers took a field trip to visit a local artisan group in Koudougou, and pictured...
In February 2010, a fellow volunteer Coleman, got a package from the United States with his old skateboard. We were both volunteers in rural Burkina Faso so we took advantage of the few days we had off in Burkina's capital, Ouagadougou, where there...
This photo was taken in November 2009 in the village of Semaga, Burkina Faso. 2009 was a year of major floods in Burkina Faso and the photo shows a Burkinabe woman, Kiyambwe, tending to the millet beer amongst a dilapidated and flood-wrecked house.
This photo was taken in Karfigula, Burkina Faso on March 2010 during an HIV/AIDS education camp. The camp used soccer as a tool to educate young girls about HIV/AIDS. The photo shows a group of young Burkinabe girls celebrating with two volunteers...
This photo was taken on March 2010 in Karfigula, Burkina Faso during the start of the mango season. The photo shows 4 young children looking up at the mango groves with rocks in their hands. They will use the rocks to throw at the mangoes, hoping...
My host mom, Fati, had this shirt so of course I had to snap a picture. She had no idea who they were, but I told her all about the storied rivalry of Bama/LSU.
While in Burkina Faso working on a World AIDS Day project, I painted a wall, taught proper condom usage, and had middle school students promise to live healthy lifestyles by putting their hand prints on the wall. Part of the promise that the middle...
Members of my women's association explained to mothers how to talk with their children about preventing HIV transmission, destigmatizing seropositivity, and how to prevent unwanted pregnancies. The group of 25 women met to discuss how to teach...
In Burkina Faso, my girl's soccer team practiced giving presentations on correct condom usage together before demonstrating their knowledge to the police officers of our community. As part of learning healthy living through sport, condom usage to...
This image was taken during a discussion on family planning and HIV/AIDS prevention in February of 2012 in a village 8 kilometers from our local hospital. Before giving a condom demonstration, we had a relay race. A team of four men and four women...
This image was taken during a discussion on family planning and HIV/AIDS prevention in February of 2012 in a village 8 kilometers from our local hospital. Before giving a condom demonstration, we had a relay race. A team of four men and four women...
This image was taken during a discussion on family planning and HIV/AIDS prevention in February of 2012 in a village 8 kilometers from our local hospital. Before giving a condom demonstration, we had a relay race. A team of four men and four...
This picture was taken at my local market, in a village in Burkina Faso. We were celebrating World AIDS Day 2011 by creating a mural with HIV/AIDS prevention images and explaining those images to the public. We played games, asked the audience...
This picture was taken at my local market, in a village in Burkina Faso. We were celebrating World AIDS Day 2011 by creating a mural with HIV/AIDS prevention images and explaining those images to the public. We played games, asked the audience...
This picture was taken at my local market in Burkina Faso. We were celebrating World AIDS Day 2011 by creating a mural with HIV/AIDS prevention images and explaining those images to the public. We played games, asked the audience to explain the...