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    • A Pledge Enacted

    • A Pledge Enacted
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    • The signatures of students, Peace Corps Volunteers, teachers, and PHA (People with HIV/AIDS) group members show their commitment to practice safe sexual habits. All camp participants signed the banner after hearing stories from PHA group members...
    • AIDS is Strong but We are Stronger

    • AIDS is Strong but We are Stronger
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    • In this scene from the awareness play “Acting Out,” the AIDS virus, represented by the actor in red, attacks the four corners of the world. The AIDS virus may appear stronger than the world, but in the end, the world defeats AIDS. “Acting...
    • Attacking the Virus

    • Attacking the Virus
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    • I took this photo at Mochudi Teen Club located at Stepping Stones International in Mochudi, Botswana in 2011. Teen Club is a support group for HIV positive adolescents, sponsored by Baylor Childen's Clinical Centre of Excellence in Botswana. The...
    • Candlelight Red Ribbon

    • Candlelight Red Ribbon
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    • This photo was taken after a week-long training of trainers on the topic of HIV/AIDS and behavior change communication, which included interviews of local sex workers, and a testimonial from a PLWH. This pictures is of Blake Van Fleteren, one of...
    • Carrying AIDS Away

    • Carrying AIDS Away
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    • In this scene from the Acting Out Awareness play, the actors representing the four corners of the world are carrying AIDS far away so that it cannot hurt anyone again. The Acting Out Awareness play is a Peace Corps Partnership Project from Massa,...
    • Comfortable with Condoms

    • Comfortable with Condoms
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    • This photo was taken on February 15, 2012 at the HoHoe Camp GLOW (Girls Leading Our World) in the Volta Region, Ghana. Twenty junior high girls from villages where Volunteers work joined with seven high school girl leaders for a week long camp put...
    • Creative Teaching

    • Creative Teaching
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    • This photo was taken at a school in central Swaziland in November of 2011. The students had been exposed to HIV messages for years, but this was their first interactive lesson. The lesson (and subsequent lessons) were very successful. Students...
    • Engageons-nous!

    • Engageons-nous!
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    • This photo shows the final product of the mural the students and teachers painted at my primary school in Burkina Faso in January 2012. The mural followed activities I led with the teachers to teach the students about HIV/AIDS transmission,...
    • Engageons-nous!

    • Engageons-nous!
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    • The students and teachers gathered for a photo after putting the finishing touches on our HIV/AIDS mural at a primary school in Burkina Faso. The mural followed activities I led with the teachers to teach the students about HIV/AIDS transmission,...
    • Fighting Against AIDS

    • Fighting Against AIDS
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    • In this scene from the Acting Out Awareness play, the AIDS virus has come face to face with the four corners of the world. At first, the world doesn't know what to do to stop AIDS. In the end they join forces to fight against AIDS. Acting Out...
    • Fun with Paint

    • Fun with Paint
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    • A few of the kids who helped design and paint the mural at our primary school posed for a picture during the process. The photo was taken in January 2012 in the village of Bissighin in Burkina Faso.
    • Hand in Hand

    • Hand in Hand
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    • I took this photo during an English Corner at Bijie University where we discussed AIDS and the impact it can have on a community. Every week Bijie University, in Guizhou, China holds an English corner where students from all different majors come...
    • HIV Prevention Mural

    • HIV Prevention Mural
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    • This photo was taken in June 2009. Myself and the 16 year old brother of my neighboring Peace Corps Volunteer painted this mural in my village, Gbangbadou in Guinea. It's painted in the 10th grade classroom of a brand new school building and...
    • HIV/AIDS Education and Prevention

    • HIV/AIDS Education and Prevention
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    • Early in my service, I established a high school club called "Yo Merezco" that had a goal to create awareness and educate others on all that is associated with HIV/AIDS. In 2010, I was asked by the health center to co-coordinate World AIDS Day. As...
    • HIV/AIDS Sign Vegetable plot

    • HIV/AIDS Sign Vegetable plot
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    • 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...
    • It's Not Who You Are

    • It's Not Who You Are
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    • This quilt piece was made by a participant of an HIV awareness seminar conducted on December 1, 2011. The seminar highlighted the fact that there are no "high-risk people," only "high risk behaviors." Understanding this concept is crucial in...
    • Je m'engage

    • Je m'engage
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    • One of the students at our primary school in Burkina Faso made his hand print on the mural to show that he chooses to engage in the fight against HIV/AIDS. The mural followed an activity I did with the teachers at the primary school to teach the...
    • Let's Be Friends

    • Let's Be Friends
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    • This photo was taken after an elementary school presentation of "It's OK to be Friends," a puppet show I wrote for the Palau Red Cross Society to serve as a tool to educate children that you can't catch AIDS by being a friend. I made all the...
    • Life Decisions

    • Life Decisions
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    • In this photo, the camp co-lead teacher, Kruu Namfone, is the last person to sign the anti-HIV/AIDS pledge banner. She eloquently summed up the experience as, "heart warming, knowing that my students, the future leaders of Thailand, promise to...

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