A male caregiver and youth leader demonstrate what 'stigma in the community' looks like in a role play that was part of a two day Stigma Symposium held in South Africa in November, 2011. Here the older man helps his young friend while community...
That’s Dirck Kuzatjike in the gray jacket. He stands in front of the white board he has borrowed from my office in order to host a meeting on the street corner. All the people gathered around him are members of his organization, the Young...
I took this photo during a World AIDS Day event at the end of November, 2011 at a primary school in Swaziland. World AIDS Day is a great event held yearly in order to educate children and adults alike in the community, an important and fun way to...
This photo was taken on August 2, 2009 with one of the several Window of Hope groups that I worked with at Waterberg Primary School in Ongombombonde, Namibia (Otjozondjupa Region). Window of Hope is a UNICEF driven educational program made up of...
Members of my women's association explained to mothers how to talk with their children about preventing HIV transmission, destigmatizing seropositivity, and how to prevent unwanted pregnancies. The group of 25 women met to discuss how to teach...
I took this picture during the World AIDS Day march in 2010 in Ecuador. Many children, youth, adults, and local organizations participated in the march. This was one of the signs that the participants made.
This photo was taken at the end of my organization's World AIDS Day Awareness Campaign on December 2, 2011 in South Africa. This image is of the four Volunteers who helped make the awareness campaign such a huge success. The "flag" they are...
This photo was taken at a health center in Ethiopia. The Volunteer is encouraging children who were orphaned by HIV to be creative and express themselves using art (paper and markers).
I took this photo at the end of a week-long workshop on HIV/AIDS for Village Health Workers in Vanuatu. Throughout the week we trained VHW's in HIV/AIDS knowledge and in tools and resources they could use for simple, effective awareness and...
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...
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,...
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 CanillĂ in raising awareness and...
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...
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.
Even after the bike ride for World AIDS Day 2011, in Piman, Thailand, I kept a sign on my bicycle the rest of the month to continue showing my support to my community.
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...
Galilaya is a fishing village located on Lake Kyoga at one of the northern most points in Kayunga District. Makerere University Walter Reed Project (MUWRP) collaborated with a Peace Corps Volunteer, Katherine Peters to do HIV education in Kayunga...
This photo is of a group of Pandamatenga Primary School students in my village (Pandamatenga), who won the National Drama Competition for this years skit on HIV prevention. They performed in December 2009 at the World AIDS Day Celebration in...
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.