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- Graduation Day
- This group of girls were very excited to be graduating from Basico (middle school) here in their local school in the village of San Andres Xecul, Totonicapan, Guatemala. This photo was taken in November 2011.
- Volunteer Photos
- Making Tamales!
- Food and meals; Cooking
- Guatemalan tamales are made with corn masa or ground rice, small piece of pork or beef cooked in a spiced sauce, and for special occasions prunes and red pepper are added. These are eaten around holidays, birthdays, or in some communities every...
- Volunteer Photos
- Corn Harvest
- Agriculture
- The entire family takes part in the annual corn harvest here in the highlands of Guatemala. When the corn fields are next to the house they are carried up on the roof where they are then shucked and left to dry out for several weeks. This photo was...
- Volunteer Photos
- Peace Corps Weight Loss!
- This Volunteer was showing us in the Peace Corps Office in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala his success over the past 2 years of his service in losing weight and having to make new holes in his belt. He explained that finally reaching a healthy weight...
- Volunteer Photos
- Students During Recess
- Children; Games
- During recess the kids love to be active and play, and many like to climb things. This photo was taken in a village in the highlands of Guatemala in February 2011.
- Volunteer Photos
- Rural Guatemalan Youth HIV/AIDS Prevention Workshop
- HIV/AIDS
- This photograph features myself, my site mate Christina, and a local counterpart, Arnulfo, from the Ministry of Education. As youth development Volunteers, we facilitated a two-day HIV/AIDS workshop in Totonicapán, Guatemala in February 2011. The...
- Volunteer Photos
- Step by Step - The Condom
- HIV/AIDs
- This photo was taken in June 2011 at an HIV/AIDS education workshop with sexual diversity groups in Quetzaltenango, Guatemala. This picture was taken during "Step by Step," an activity that teaches the correct steps pertaining to condom use.
- Volunteer Photos
- HIV/AIDS Education Chalk Art
- HIV/AIDS
- This picture was taken during International AIDS Day 2011 at the Central Park of Quiche, Guatemala. During this day, Ministry of Health workers and Peace Corps volunteers collaborated by organizing a march through the city, inviting guest speakers...
- Volunteer Photos
- 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,...
- Volunteer Photos
- 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 Canillà in raising awareness and...
- Volunteer Photos
- 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...
- Volunteer Photos
- 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.
- Volunteer Photos
- HIV Butterfly for World AIDS Day
- HIV/AIDS
- This was the actual handmade butterfly that was passed out to the health center staff in a town in Guatemala on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2011. It was a way to promote HIV awareness and the hope of finding a cure in the near future for HIV.
- Volunteer Photos
- Tortillas!
- Food and meals
- Black corn tortillas in Guatemala.
- Volunteer Photos
- Women's Artists Cooperative
- Artisans
- The first official meeting of our Mayan women's arts collective- part of the larger cultural preservation/ tourism project called Runawal Tinamit, Aldea El Pajuil, Chicaman, El Quiche. El Pajuil, where my primary project was based, is a small ...
- Volunteer Photos
- Marimba Lessons with Don Carlos
- Music
- Don Carlos is the foremost marimba player in Aldea El Pajuil. Here in the new community center he is teaching his first co-ed class of students.
- Volunteer Photos
- El Pajuil/ Ju' Yuk
- Women and Children meeting me during my walk through the village of El Pajuil, Chicaman, El Quiche Guatemala. In Poqomchi Mayan the village is called Ju' yuk which means "at the mountain's top".
- Volunteer Photos
- A Stove I Built for a Village Woman and Her Mother
- Work; Community Development
- I built this stove along with my counterpart for this woman and her mother. It uses only a fraction of the wood that an open fire uses and is made out of easily obtainable materials.
- Volunteer Photos
- World Map
- Teachers and Students; World Map Project
- This is a photo of Volunteer Aliyya painting a world map with her students in Guatemala.
- Volunteer Photos
- Jose Domingo
- Host Families
- This is my host brother having his hair washed by my host mom. He was born only a week after I arrived at my site. Because of that, it was always easy to remember how old he was. I took this picture close to the end of my service, so that means...
- Volunteer Photos