The photo was taken at North-West Province of South Africa in a school called Goakganya Primary School where Peace Corps had their permagarden training with PCVs & Counterparts. The workshop was held on the 2-3 April 2012 and the picture was taken...
The Courage of Irene Malachi is well known in Vanuatu. Her influence extends to many rural areas where she has been in the vanguard of those seeking a new approach and understanding to HIV-AIDS and its effects.
Irene is now the holder of a quite...
This week, tears of joy were shed by Mrs. Irene Malachi who was first announced the first ever HIV/AIDS victim in the small island country of Vanuatu in 2002 when she was presented an award by the Peace Corps Country Director, Mr. Edwin Stice....
This is from a celebration of Global Youth Service Day 2006 in Santo Domingo. It shows Volunteers with their youth HIV/AIDS peer-educators from the Escojo Mi Vida network "I choose life."
I took this photo in May 2010 at a Catholic primary school in Togo, West Africa. This was a HIV/AIDS training teaching students the characteristics of the disease, prevention, living with it, etc. This photo shows the students representing every...
Children; Water and sanitation; Teachers and students
This photo show Peace Corps Volunteer Leana NĂ¡poles and preschool children in Ecuador. This picture was taken after Leana and her fellow HIV/AIDS program trainees gave a charla (or talk) to the preschoolers on the importance of handwashing and...
This photo was taken last week in a park in my town. The boy sitting with me is showing me how to make a necklace by stringing together flowers. Photographer is another boy the same age that loves using my camera.
This photo was taken a few weeks ago at a health fair in Ecuador. My counterpart agency is Plan Internacional, and part of our booth included proper condom use demonstrations. These are students from a local high school that attended the fair,...
Usually the highlight of my day is hanging out with these kids and their friends, who shine shoes at the center of my town. The problem is they should be in school, and some of them have never gone to school and can't read. I figured I'd be...
This is one of my favorite people at site, Luis. The picture was taken by another kid his age, who loves using my camera. It was a morning of some mini photography lessons, not that I am qualified to be giving photography lessons. We are...
This was a World AIDS Day March that I organized along with New Life Organization in Grenville, Grenada. We distributed information about HIV and AIDS, a list of places that provide free testing and counseling, and red awareness ribbons.
Situated in the African Rift Valley, Uganda is home to the source of the Nile River in Lake Victoria. The Lake provides the main source of protein for the tribes that live in the southeastern district. The children have just off-boarded a ferry...
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.