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...
During my first year living in my community in Nicaragua, I loved spending my afternoons working with a youth group making videos about the community. After a while it became too much to continue editing all of the footage myself and so with a...
I took this photo of one of my students at Cape Coast School for the Deaf in Cape Coast, Ghana, working on her entry for the PEPFAR HIV/AIDS calendar contest. The theme of the contest was "My Friend with HIV is still my friend." I was her art...
Joseph Esoun, 12, a student at Cape Coast School for the Deaf in Cape Coast, Ghana, works on his entry for the PEPFAR HIV/AIDS calendar contest. The theme of the contest was "My Friend with HIV is still my friend." He was one of 13 winners in this...
This photo was taken at a primary school in March 2012. The children were being educated on HIV/AIDs - good decision-making skills by two Volunteers. As part of the experience they performed role plays that were very good. This is one place that...
This photo was taken at a primary school in March, 2012. I was teaching a classroom of primary 4 children on good decision-making for HIV. The children were participatory and did role play. They don't have many volunteers go into the slum...
I took this photo during an 8 day, HIV/AIDS-focused home-based care training in Mekaneselam, Ethiopia. Fifteen caregivers were trained using a Peace Corps VAST grant to provide home-based care to people living with HIV/AIDS in rural Ethiopia....
This photo is original work of the Girls' Club of Uukwiyuushona Combined School, Namibia from 28 June 2012. Thirty female learners ages 14-20 collaborated ideas and were given a camera to capture them. As learners in grades either 9 or 10, they...
I took this photo during one of the presentations that my HIV/AIDS club has been doing around our district - primarily to primary and junior high schools. This photo shows one of our HIV/AIDS student leaders presenting the "ABCDs" of HIV/AIDS...
I took this picture during a bingo game (with HIV/AIDS words they had learned) during the HIV/AIDS Camp in Piman, Thailand (April, 2011). When there was a winner, we spent a few minutes going back over the phrases of the winning bingo card to...
This photo was taken on May 20, 2011 at an HIV/AIDS candlelight memorial Ukraine. Students of all ages participated in a candlelight walk, quizzes focused on prevention and stigma reduction, behavior pledges and presented interpretive dance, song...
This is a picture of the t-shirts that each attendee to the 3-day HIV/AIDS Camp received (April, 2011). The front of the shirt simply has the red ribbon -- the back says it's the HIV/AIDS Camp in Piman (mostly in Thai). When my service ended nearly...
During the HIV/AIDS Camp in Piman, Thailand (April, 2011) -- we had the kids paint and sign a banner. They had fun painting and deciding how big to write their names! They then understood what the red ribbon symbolized and why it was so prominent...
This is a picture of the whole group of attendees of the HIV/AIDS Camp - the camp was April 7-9, 2011, in Piman, Thailand. This was the day each attendee wore the t-shirt designed for the camp attendees.
I helped develop and obtain funds for a three-day HIV/AIDS Camp in Piman, Thailand during my Peace Corps Service. The camp was held for three days in April, 2011. More than 40 students attended the camp. This is one of the participants learning...
This photo was taken on May 20, 2011,at an HIV/AIDS Candlelight Memorial in Ukraine. Students of all ages participated in a candlelight walk, quizzes focused on prevention and stigma reduction, behavour pledges and presented interpretive dance,...
In April 2012, Peace Corps Volunteers in the Dominican Republic completed the fourth and final filming of an educational soap opera. The project was designed for Volunteers to use technology in innovative ways to address common adolescent issues...
This is a group of photos taken at a school in Ghana. The genders are separated and each student participates anonymously using a turning tech audience response system. This allows students to participate without standing out, and encourages...
Youth in Ukraine light candles to remember victims of HIV/AIDS. They are among those who are aware of HIV/AIDS and how to avoid it, thanks to the Peace Corps and its Volunteers who teach youth to adopt healthy lifestyles.
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...