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    • Trifon Zarezan Day

    • Trifon Zarezan Day

    • music

    • I took this photo on February 12th, 2011, of the local folk song group in Chiprovtsi Bulgaria. They were warming up with tea, honey, and rakia before singing for Trifon Zarezan Day Celebrations. Trifon Zarezan is an annual holiday celebrating...
    • Trifon Zarezan Day Participation

    • Trifon Zarezan Day Participation

    • traditional dress; food and meals

    • On February 12, 2011, I participated with the ladies folk group in greeting visitors to Chiprovtsi, Bulgaria. The photo shows me dressed in traditional costume, offering bread as a welcome to visitors. The occasion was Trifon Zarezan Day, a...
    • Tswana Learners Sing for World AIDS Day

    • Tswana Learners Sing for World AIDS Day

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken on December 1st, 2011 in South Africa at a primary school in celebration of the school's first recognition of World AIDS Day. Here a group of girls from grade 7 perform a song they wrote about the stigma of having HIV/AIDS and...
    • Turkmenbashi World AIDS Day 2011

    • Turkmenbashi World AIDS Day 2011

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken after the set up was complete for World AIDS Day 2011 at the Main House of Health in Turkmenbashi, Turkmenistan. The photo shows a Peace Corps volunteer with educational material to raise awareness of HIV/AIDS.
    • 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...
    • Waiting in Wembezi on World AIDS Day 2011

    • Waiting in Wembezi on World AIDS Day 2011

    • HIV/AIDS

    • Waiting for the start of World AIDS Day training in a township in South Africa are members of the Christian Church of Africa, whose Archbishop was the first to welcome PLWHAs into churches in his diocese. Also depicted is Volunteer Mary Pat...
    • Wash Day

    • Wash Day

    • Life skills

    • The Photo was taken at a Food and Medical Distribution Site in Jawand, Afghanistan (1972). Villagers maintained their daily chores during the food distributions.
    • Watching

    • Watching

    • International Women's Day; celebrations

    • For International Women's Day, the women leaders of Maroua took a day trip to Pouss to meet their Sultan and to Maga to see the fishing and rice production. I had the honor of being invited to pariticipate. Every place we stopped the villagers...
    • Wedding Day

    • Wedding Day

    • celebrations

    • 15 pots of mole sauce were made in preparation for this wedding in a small town in Mexico. The wedding and reception involved 2 small adjacent pueblitos and lasted almost 24 hours. Ultimately, over 800 people were fed a full dinner (cooked and...
    • Women's Day Celebration

    • Women's Day Celebration

    • Teachers and students; Traditional dress; Dance; International Women's Day

    • My school held a celebration dinner for International Women's Day, March 8th. Women's Day is a big deal in Romania. I enjoyed the dinner and dancing, after which a friend took this picture showing me and students in traditional costumes. My...
    • Word AIDS Day 2010

    • Word AIDS Day 2010

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this picture during the World AIDS Day march in 2010 in Ecuador. Many children, youth, adults, and local organizations participated in the march. This was one of the signs that the participants made.
    • World AIDS 2010 Day Media Event

    • World AIDS 2010 Day Media Event

    • HIV/AIDS; Media coverage

    • This photo was taken during the West Regional Project in Bafoussam, Cameroon on World AIDS Day 2010- an event working with 22 Peer Educators. Volunteers and host country nationals met in the regional capital and paraded, passed out condoms (male...
    • World AIDS Day

    • World AIDS Day

    • HIV/AIDS

    • For the event of World AIDS Day, we conducted a two part activity. The first part of the activity was a mini workshop on the transmission and prevention of HIV. When this activity was done, I, along with some members of the health center staff,...
    • World AIDS Day

    • World AIDS Day

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This is me starting to paint the mural. This was at the very beginning before the mural was completely finished. Here I am emphasizing on the touches of the butterfly of hope. The butterfly became the symbol for CanillĂ  in raising awareness and...
    • World AIDS Day

    • World AIDS Day

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This mural painted in front of the health center in a town in Guatemala was part of an art contest that was held on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2011. The art contest was among children and a 13 year old boy won the contest. His drawing was painted...
    • World AIDS Day

    • World AIDS Day

    • HIV/AIDS; Art

    • This is the mural painting by itself after the completion for World AIDS Day 2011 in a town in Guatemala. This mural was painted in front of the health center to raise HIV awareness for the entire town.
    • World AIDS Day 2007 Bawku

    • World AIDS Day 2007 Bawku

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo of a World AIDS Day Voluntary Counseling and Testing for HIV (VCT) promotion banner right outside the Bawku hospital in the Upper East Region of Ghana. I worked with the other Volunteers in the Upper East Region to help make this...

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