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- World Health Organization Smallpox Eradication Project, Zaire 1971
- Disease; Health; Volunteers; Host community
- Volunteers with their surveillance teams in Zaire. The surveillance teams provided vaccinations to pursue any subsequently reported cases of smallpox.
- Volunteer Photos
- World Malaria Activities
- Drama
- This picture was taken in Cotonou Benin in June 2010 (late Malaria Day celebrations). A theatrical group form Allada Benin was hired to put on a skit about malaria. In this scene, the girl standing is acting as a mosquito and is showing how she...
- Volunteer Photos
- World Malaria Day Rally
- Malaria; Celebrations; Education
- As a PCRV in Liberia, I joined the Liberian Red Cross in a World Malaria Day 2010 rally in downtown Tubmanburg, Liberia. Participants marched through downtown ending at the Red Cross Headquarters, where an informational program was given.
- Volunteer Photos
- Writing in my Journal
- Housing
- This photo was taken in 1990. Sitting at my dining table, I wrote in my journal daily during my Peace Corps service in Antigua, West Indies. On the wall above me is a map of the Eastern Caribbean where I called home at this time in my life. On...
- Volunteer Photos
- Yearn for Education
- Art
- I took this photo February, 2012 in Carpuela (Valle de Chota) Imbabura, Ecuador. It depicts artist Alicia Villaba's view of the yearning and longing for a better education for the young Afro-Ecuadorians in her community. This power piece is made...
- Volunteer Photos
- Yebo Gogo!
- health; elders
- For the past 9 months, I have been working with a group of Grannys (in South Africa they are known as Gogos) to form a health education group. Often the ones left to cook, clean, and care for young babies while their own children go to cities to...
- Volunteer Photos
- Yebo Gogo
- Elders; Youth
- I took this photo in Naas, South Africa on March 23, 2011. The woman pictured is the grandmother or Gogo in siSwati of a client that I work with. Gogos have frequently become the primary care givers in a country where many children are orphaned as...
- Volunteer Photos
- You Are Most Welcome!
- Elders; Celebrations;
- Lizzy is welcomed to her village in the northern region of Ghana in July of 2009.
- Volunteer Photos
- You Go Girl
- Girls' education; Host community
- Many of the men in my village leave to find work in Italy. They are gone for years at a time while the women and girls have to make ends meet in village, waiting for money to be sent over. This is a photo of three girls from my village in...
- Volunteer Photos
- Young Love
- Celebrations; children; traditional dress
- This photo was taken in May 2008 at School #3662 in Isla Tobati, Paraguay. This is a traditional dance that the students were doing for a Mother's Day celebration. The photo shows a girl and boy in costume during the performance. They are both six...
- Volunteer Photos
- Young Women in Contrast
- Maternal and child health
- This is a picture of a Peace Corps trainee and a Liberian farmer in Zorzor, Lofa County, Liberia, West Africa. The African woman had her son at about the age of 14, is pregnant again, and briskly walks from her farm balancing 50 pounds on her...
- Volunteer Photos
- Youth Day Parade
- HIV/AIDS; Camps and clubs
- This photo was taken February 11, 2010 on Cameroon's National Youth Day. The students marching are high school students who were members of Club Reglo, or Youth Club, in my post of Banyo, Cameroon. These students were trained as peer educators...
- Volunteer Photos
- Youth Visions HIV Prevention Mural
- HIV/AIDS; Art
- This photo was taken during the unveiling of an HIV prevention mural painted in 2008 in collaboration with the students from Kongo SS in the Upper East Region of Ghana. This was the culmination of a six week project focused on collaboration between...
- Volunteer Photos