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- World AIDS Day 2010
- HIV/AIDS
- Local middle and high school students participating in a march for World AIDS Day, December 1, 2010 in Ecuador.
- Volunteer Photos
- World AIDS Day 2010
- HIV/AIDS
- A member of the youth group explains basic HIV information to his peers during a World AIDS Day open house on December 1st, 2010 in Ecuador.
- Volunteer Photos
- World AIDS Day 2010
- HIV/AIDS
- I took this picture of my youth group in Colimes, Ecuador after the World AIDS Day march on December 1, 2010. All of the youth include in this picture are peer educators who worked with hundreds of youth in their community in HIV prevention and...
- Volunteer Photos
- World AIDS Day 2007 Bawku
- HIV/AIDS
- 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...
- Volunteer Photos
- World AIDS Day
- HIV/AIDS
- 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,...
- Volunteer Photos
- World AIDS Day
- HIV/AIDS
- 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 Canillà in raising awareness and...
- Volunteer Photos
- World AIDS Day
- HIV/AIDS
- 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...
- Volunteer Photos
- World AIDS Day
- HIV/AIDS; Art
- 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.
- Volunteer Photos
- Working with Village Health Workers to Create HIV/AIDS Action Plans
- HIV/AIDS; Education
- 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...
- Volunteer Photos
- Working on our Balance
- Camps and clubs; Children; Health
- Isabel works on the parallel bars to improve her balance during occupational therapy. Her peers cheer her on. About 30-40 children with multiple disabilities lived at the children's section of the Julio Endara M. Hospital near Quito, Ecuador. Some...
- Volunteer Photos
- Working Cowboys
- Youth; Work; Rural sites
- While we were conducting a home visit, these two boys came tromping back from working out in the fields. They were instantly curious as to who the strangers in their house were. They looked so cute in their matching cowboy hats that I asked to take...
- Volunteer Photos
- Work Together, Play Together
- Camps and clubs
- This photo was taken in Andringitra, Madagascar. Two Peace Corps Volunteers, Kurt and Sonia, along with their sisters (visiting), met up with the Club Vintsy (an environment club). Kurt and Sonia did a lot of their work with Club Vintsy in...
- Volunteer Photos
- Word AIDS Day 2010
- HIV/AIDS
- 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.
- Volunteer Photos
- Women's Association Explaining How to Prevent HIV Transmission to Peers
- HIV/AIDS; Maternal and child health
- 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...
- Volunteer Photos
- Women Making Improved Soy Porridge in Kambole, Togo
- Cooking; Nutrition
- Local women demonstrate making improved soy porridge to improve child nutrition in Kambole, Togo.
- Volunteer Photos
- Without a Door
- Elders; Host community friends
- I took this photo on December 9, 2010 during the 16 Days of Activism, an annual campaign on gender-based violence. In one of our door-to-door outreach efforts in Block A, South Africa, a woman invited me and my coworkers into her house to...
- Volunteer Photos
- With My Family in Croix des Bouquets
- Host families
- This picture was taken with my host family shortly before training ended in September of 1984. They took such good care of me. At first they attempted to serve me meals that they thought were Americanized. When they realized how much I liked...
- Volunteer Photos
- With Friends in Croix des Bouquets
- Children; Host community
- Ann and I walked to school each morning during training in the company of this beautiful group of children.
- Volunteer Photos
- Where the Heck is Helena?
- Transportation; Housing
- Traveling by taxi from the capital of Guyana, Georgetown, to my new site in New Amsterdam, I flew by this road sign. Helena?? That's my hometown in Montana! It's pointing in the right direction, but I reckon it's a village here. I don't recall...
- Volunteer Photos
- Wheelbarrow
- camps and clubs; sports
- This photo was taken in March 2008 in Santa Rosa, Paraguay at a regional youth leadership camp. The camp was held during one day where youth, ages 13-21 came to be empowered to become leaders. They learned skills, such as this one, which focused...
- Volunteer Photos