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    • Youth Visions HIV Prevention Mural

    • Youth Visions HIV Prevention Mural

    • HIV/AIDS; Art

    • This photo was taken during the unveiling of an HIV prevention mural painted in 2008 in collaboration with the students from Kongo SS in the Upper East Region of Ghana. This was the culmination of a six week project focused on collaboration between...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World Map Project

    • World Map Project

    • Schools; Teachers and students; Art; World Map Project

    • The photo was taken in March of 2008. My students and I were working on a World Map Project. We took a large wall that everyone walks past at the school and drew a mural of a world map. This photo shows us in the finishing stages of painting it. We...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Welcome to Binaba!

    • Welcome to Binaba!

    • Host community friends; Celebrations; Agriculture

    • A welcome dinner hosted by the executive members of Binaba Women's Farmers Association (BWFA) at my house in January 2005.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • We Three

    • We Three

    • Housing; Traditional dress; Children

    • In our house on the compound of Akrokerr Teacher Training College. Traditional Kente cloth hangs on the wall, Adinkra cloth covers the table.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Waiting for the buss

    • Waiting for the buss

    • Children; Transportation

    • I took this photo at the bus station in Takarodi, Ghana in January, 2004 of this cute little girl that was all dressed up and waiting with her mother for the bus (tro-tro) to Axim, Ghana where I was working.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Volunteer Trainers

    • Volunteer Trainers

    • Pre-service Training (PST)

    • These are the faces of experience- my Volunteer trainers who we thought of as all-knowing. Some so great that their photos are on the 8th floor wall at PC HQ.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Village Evening

    • Village Evening

    • Children

    • This is a photo of myself (taken by Volunteer Stephanie Lagos, and used with permission) holding Laciba, one of my neighbor's daughters, in a village of in the northern region of Ghana, around December of 2010.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Trust Games

    • Trust Games

    • HIV/AIDS; Camps and clubs

    • Girls Leading Our World (GLOW) Camp participants play trust games, helping them to feel comfortable with one other in hopes of encouraging them to open up and share their experiences. During the April 2012 camp, several youth led seminars on HIV...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Total Solar Eclipse

    • Total Solar Eclipse

    • Celebrations

    • This is a photo of Very Reverend S.L. Addo Donkoh, the headmaster of my school, Akuse Methodist Secondary Technical School (AMEST). The photograph was taken on the morning of 29 March 2006, just before a total solar eclipse passed through Ghana...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Togo Falls

    • Togo Falls
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    • This photo was taken in October of 2003 at the Togo Falls in the Volta region of Ghana, and shows several members of my group playing in the water.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Risk Game

    • The Risk Game

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo during an HIV/AIDS lecture my students were providing to one of our local combined primary and junior high schools on July 20th, 2012 in Ghana. The photo shows my HIV/AIDS student leaders from the senior high school I teach at...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Life of a Girl-Child

    • The Life of a Girl-Child

    • Children

    • It was just another day in Kpendua, another lunch in my best friend's compound with his family. One of the neighboring children walked in to greet us all, carrying her younger sister on her back as usual This photo was taken in 2008 in Kpendua,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Teaching in Ghana

    • Teaching in Ghana
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    • This is my small class of 65 students. Teaching this group was a huge challenge, but well worth it as most of them passed their general art national leaving exam.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Swearing In Ceremony

    • Swearing In Ceremony

    • Swearing-in ceremonies

    • This photo was taken in Accra Ghana August 1976. After weeks of language, and cultural training we were ready to be sworn in by Howard Stevenson(Peace Corp) and Shirley Temple Black (Ambasador)
    • Volunteer Photos

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