This photo was taken on May 15th, 2012 in Ukraine, in the main square of a town. It features Volunteers and Ukrainians laying down candles for a candlelight memorial we did to remember those who have died of HIV AIDS. The candles in the...
This photo was taken on May 15th, 2012 in the main square of a town in Ukraine. It features pupils excitedly sharing their knowledge of HIV after a series of HIV awareness seminars. They are encouraging their peers to add a link to the Chain of...
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...
This photo was taken in the main squareof a town in Ukraine on May 15th, 2012. The Chain of Knowledge was the culmination of an HIV Awareness project I did with the pupils of my school. Participants of the project went into the main square of our...
This photo was taken on March 8th, 2011 at MIFUMI's International Women's Day Celebration in Uganda. The photo is of Guest of Honor Beth Amoit and Volunteer Laura Leach.
These are members of a music, dance, and drama group from Kisoko, Uganda performing at the International Women's Day celebration that took place on March 8th, 2011.
About mid-way through pre-service training was Halloween. A lot of people in our group really loved the holiday, and we knew we wanted to celebrate it with Macedonians in country. We decided to each go as a US holiday, including: Valentines Day,...
this is a picture of my training group during a HUB day in Macedonia. The HUB day fell on Halloween 2009 and my training group really got into the Halloween spirit. We each went as the American holidays: St. Valentine (cupid), St. Patricks, the...
This is my great Peace Corps buddy Patti (left) and I during some sort of fete at the Peace Corps training camp, Tubaniso, outside of Bamako, in Mali. We had arrived in late December, 1990 as "refugees" when we were evacuated from Mauritania. We...
In this picture I am dancing the Macedonian traditional dance, the Oro, for the first time with my host father. I had absolutely no idea what I was doing, but thankfully he was able to tell me the dance steps. Too bad I didnt understand enough...
Kathryn and Francisco Fernandez are Volunteers in Belmopan, Belize. This photo was taken at in Bermudan Landing at a baboon sanctuary during our first week in country as Trainees. Teaching us to hull rice, among other traditional practices, was...
Volunteer Marisa helps students in her photography club critique their photos from the previous week's assignment. Community Youth Center, Zinder, Niger. January 8, 2010.
These students planned and hosted GuiYang Medical University's 3rd Annual Prom, "An Evening in Paris." The evening included American dances like the YMCA and country line dance, crowning of prom king and queen, and a performance by A Cappella group...
1987, Botswana, Molepolole College of Education in the village of Molepolole. This was my first graduating class: Tiny, Soks, Shelia, Dennis, Kelone, Old Man, Debra, Dolly, Rejoice, and teacher - -Manatsa.
This was written about me in our College...