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    • Rivne Candlelight Memorial Ceremony

    • Rivne Candlelight Memorial Ceremony

    • HIV-AIDS

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sharing Knowledge

    • Sharing Knowledge

    • HIV-AIDS

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • It's Not Who You Are

    • It's Not Who You Are

    • HIV-AIDS

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Story Telling

    • Story Telling

    • Camps and clubs; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • Volunteers Marisa and Ashley pass some free time telling stories to their Young Girls' Empowerment Camp participants. Zinder, Niger. 3/24/2010
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Trick or Treat!

    • Trick or Treat!

    • Celebrations

    • 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,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Halloween Macedonian-style

    • Halloween Macedonian-style

    • Celebrations

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • First Pumpkin

    • First Pumpkin

    • Celebrations; Children

    • Host kids Hadiza, Kader, Balki, and Rakia help Volunteer Laura Ballard carve a pumkin to celebrate Halloween. Zinder, Niger. October 29th, 2009.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Patti and Laura at Tubaniso, Mali

    • Patti and Laura at Tubaniso, Mali

    • Country evacuations; Training sites

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Getting Off On the Right Foot

    • Getting Off On the Right Foot

    • Dance; Host families; Celebrations

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • "I've Never"

    • "I've Never"

    • Games; Teachers and students

    • April 2011, GuiYang, GuiZhou, China Peace Corps Response Volunteer Laura Ballard plays "I've Never" with her freshman English class.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Scrabble Buddy

    • Scrabble Buddy

    • Host community friends; games

    • Yuan Xiao Lu, a graduate student at the univeristy where I served teaching English, became one of my favorite Scrabble buddies. April 2011.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Rhythm

    • Rhythm

    • Pre-service Training (PST)

    • 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 Photos
    • Photo Class

    • Photo Class

    • Teachers and students

    • 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.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Prom Planning Committee

    • Prom Planning Committee

    • Teachers and students; Celebrations

    • 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...
    • Volunteer Photos

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