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...
A few of the kids who helped design and paint the mural at our primary school posed for a picture during the process. The photo was taken in January 2012 in the village of Bissighin in Burkina Faso.
This photograph was taken of me while painting the hand of a student/neighbor to make an HIV/AIDS poster. The poster was used in the central clinic, elementary school, and high school while I promoted HIV/AID awareness and precautions. The final...
A history of the Peace Corps in Chile, prepared on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the US Peace Corps, for distribution at the reunion of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers who served in Chile, hosted by the Embassy of Chile in Washington DC...
This ACTION Peace Corps Volunteer working in Nairobi, Kenya is a staff Physician at the Medical Training Center. He also acts as an advisor to area health programs.
Peace Corps volunteer Eileen Sullivan of Cohasset, Mass., is raising rabbits and growing alfalfa in the small community of Tugualo, Ecuador. Previously, she spent one year as a volunteer nurse in the community of Latucunga, Ecuador, Here, Eileen...
Flag-waving, music, marching and declamations are mandatory for any official event in Bolivia. Often, as in the case of this event, the inauguration of the new teachers' living quarters in the town of Comanche, all the school kids participate....
Kids were always saying, "Santa never comes to the Philippines!" Kim and I needed to remedy the situation so we bought toothbrushes, sound makers, etc. for 100 kids. I used the cotton from the first aid kit to make a beard, Kim sewed a hat, and I...
Most afternoons our house was filled with the station's children who loved to come in and dress up in our hats and shoes and dance around. We enjoyed playing with the kids and answering their many questions about where we came from and why we...
This is a picture of a young girl named Nana Farida. She is benig carried tied to her mother's back and she is unhappy about it. This was taken in the village of Tsanwa in the Maradi state of Niger in early 2010.