This photo was taken on November 8, 2010, in a port town on the Upper Suriname river, Suriname. Chris Rodriguez (left) and another Volunteer teach participants of an HIV/AIDS prevention training how to properly dispose of condoms. The training was...
A young local boy and Peace Corps Suriname Volunteer, Chris Rodriguez, show off their red beads which were distributed and worn by attendees of a World AIDS Day 2009 event in Suriname. The beads represented the community's unification to stop...
I took this photo the summer of 2008, during an HIV/AIDS awareness camp held in Ivanychi, Ukraine. The three students seen here, from the 8th form, created the poster as a project to show what they learned. The poster says "We Stop AIDS Together"...
The Stars of Tomorrow is an HIV peer education program made possible through VAST funds. The three-day training took place January 31 through February 2, 2011. Twenty-one unemployed, out of school youth in their 20s were trained to be HIV peer...
I am so happy here! This photo was taken on World AIDS Day with the young women in the nonprofit I started, PROLIR. We had just performed a dance in front of the government officials in my town in Mozambique, Africa. The young women were so proud...
This photo was taken at the end of November 2010 in the outskirts of my site in Namibia. My hiking pack is resting against the sign on the B3. It was a beautiful and very hot, dry, dusty day. You can see the lack of vegetation in the southern edges...
The fantastic game of Ludo, played in rural Uganda, transformed into an HIV/AIDS information dissemination tool. Ludo tournament day involving 13 rural communities, February 14th, 2009.
This was in the magnificent town of Tolagnaro inhabited primarily by the proud and industrious Antanosy tribesmen and women. I was discussing HIV/AIDS awareness and prevention with a group of local at-risk youths during a breal from our "baskety"...
This photograph was taken in the North West Region of Ghana in 2005 during the Peace Corps annual bike ride for HIV/AIDS awareness and education. I love this picture because I remember that day so well, there was singing and dancing around a huge...
This photo was taken at the camel farm outside of my village in Botswana on April 29, 2011. During colonial times, camels were used by police to patrol remote villages because there were no paved roads. Today, they are used for tourism purposes and...
This photo was taken in the northern region of Ghana during a two-week long HIV/AIDS education program. Five health Volunteers and three counterparts traveled down the White Volta River doing outreach and testing in over a dozen villages that are...
Teachers and students; Celebrations; Schools; Secondary projects
This photo was taken in November 2009 at Pandamatenga Primary School in Pandamatenga, Botswana. This was the end of the school year and we wanted to take a photo with the teacher and his standard 2 (equivalent of 1st grade) class, whom I was...
This photo was taken in May 2010 of one of our Seboza Club Meetings at the primary school in Pandamatenga, Botswana. The students were from Standards 5-7 (equivalent of grades 4-6) and were participating in life skills and HIV prevention...
This was taken in Linden, Guyana, South America. It was part of a PEPFAR grant I was able to garnish alongside two other Volunteers. We did a puppet show campaign targeting primary and secondary schools with the message about HIV/AIDS...with...
In this photo is Volunteer Liz Anderson teaching a class of 30 girls a session on the biology and transmission of HIV during a Girls Empowerment HIV Awareness Summer Camp in Baham, Cameroon, August 2010.
In this photo is Volunteer Julia during our collaborative Girls Empowerment HIV Awareness Summer Camp. Julie is centered around a number of the girls during one of our community building exercises.
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...
This photo was taken during training for health group 33 in Namibia, at an organization named Kayec. This is an after school program that we visited during training and we were teaching the learners how to play baseball. The young girls were my...
This is a photo of the Candlelight Memorial for victims of HIV/AIDS that we completed during my service. It has been an annual event in the community each year since. Pictured are local participants in the event.