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    • La Vide da La Vega

    • La Vide da La Vega

    • Host community friends

    • This is a photo I took while visiting the family members of one of my community friends in La Vega, Dominican Republic. What was originally just an experiment testing out my new camera, turned into a fascinating portrait of Dominican "campo"...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Supermen

    • Supermen

    • Host community friends

    • This photo was taken July 2012. My friend came to visit me and we were walking through my barrio with my host nieces. This is a beautiful view of what I get to see everyday.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Find the Ball!

    • Find the Ball!

    • HIV/AIDS; Games

    • This is a photo of Dominican youth playing 'Find the Ball,' a game from the HIV prevention initiative Deportes para la Vida. Youth pass a ball from one another behind their backs in order to see if they can guess where it stops. The ball...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Do you know Pepe?

    • Do you know Pepe?

    • HIV/AIDS; Camps and clubs

    • This is a photo taken of club Superman in Dominican Republic. The group is for young boys and is facilitated by a local teenager, Victor. He is a wonderful role model and facilitates HIV prevention games that are taught in the Deportes para la...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • AIDS Vigil

    • AIDS Vigil

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken with two little girls during a vigil I organized with the Red Cross to remember those who have died of SIDA (AIDS) and to raise awareness of the disease. The sign, translated in English, reads: "AIDS isn't just a disease:...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Saber Es Poder - Knowledge is Power

    • Saber Es Poder - Knowledge is Power

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo on December 1, 2011 at the World AIDS Day event in my community in Dominican Republic. Our youth group Escojo Mi Vida ("I Choose My Life") prepared and presented informational talks and dramas about HIV/AIDS. The photo shows some...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Rights of Children

    • The Rights of Children

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This is a photo of a mural done on the front of an elementary school in Dominican Republic by the group Brilliant Girls. The mural depicts children's rights and features some of the painters and their proud work! One of the rights says freedom...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Juggling Life!

    • Juggling Life!

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This is a photo taken in Dominican Republic. Kristy, a youth Yolunteer in the DR, is facilitating a HIV prevention game called juggling life with her Sports for Life group. The youth have to try to juggle balls that represent different...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Escojo Mi Vida - I Choose My Life

    • Escojo Mi Vida - I Choose My Life

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken on December 1, 2011, at the World AIDS Day event in my community's church, Carlos Pinto, Dominican Republic. I am kneeling at the center surrounded by some of the youth members of our HIV/AIDS awareness group Escojo Mi Vida (I...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Los Multiplicadores de Los Limones

    • Los Multiplicadores de Los Limones

    • Celebrations

    • This photo is of the youth group in one community in which I worked, Los Limones. The event is of a graduation of the "Escojo Mi Vida!" (I choose my life) curriculum in which youth learned about Sexually Transmitted Infections, HIV/AIDS, self...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Chicas Sanas

    • Chicas Sanas

    • Camps and clubs; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD); HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken during a Soy Sana Chicas Brillantes mini conference in the Dominican Republic on Saturday April 14, 2012. Soy Sana focused on the girls understanding their body and reproductive organs, as well as HIV/AIDS prevention through an...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Supermen

    • Supermen

    • Camps and clubs; Celebrations

    • Chicos Superman is a program for boys aged 10-14 to meet and talk about positive self-esteem, values, and HIV/AIDS prevention. In May 2012, this group met to make Mother's Day cards for their moms. Their appreciation for their mothers' is one...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Somos Solidarias

    • Somos Solidarias

    • Camps and clubs

    • This picture was taken during GLOW (Girls Leading Our World) Camp 2012 in the Dominican Republic. These girls spent the week learning about leadership, HIV/AIDS, managing stress, teamwork, and future planning. These 2 young leaders will spend the...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Team DPV

    • Team DPV

    • Camps and clubs

    • During a Soy Sana Chicas Brillantes, which is our version of G.L.O.W., mini conference in Dominican Republic I took a picture with my Deportes para la Vida (grassroots soccer) trainers who ran HIV/AIDS prevention games for the conference.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The First World Map Project Map in the Peace Corps

    • The First World Map Project Map in the Peace Corps

    • Children; Education; Work; Schools; Teachers and students;

    • This is the first World Map Project Map in what was to become a standard Peace Corps activity worldwide. It is in the school in Hondo Valle, Dominican Republic. Volunteer Barbara Jo White is working with two high school students on the map. It was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Dominican Classroom

    • Dominican Classroom

    • Work; Teachers and students

    • Part of our job was to go to the schools of the teachers we were training on horseback or by motorcycle, and observe our teachers as they taught. This was one class on one day in 1967.
    • Volunteer Photos

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