10/23/09. Dinner with Lesley Saliga (conference participant), Donka Panayotova (Chairperson of Organization Drom, sponsor of the Conference and operator of the desegregation project), Mary Smarr, RPCV, and Valentina Kordova (conference...
On Easter morning in the village of Stokopani, Ukraine, we got up at sunrise to have our eggs and bread blessed by a priest. This village was so small, there was no church -- people held holiday services at the local grocery store. Afterwards, we...
This is a picture i took during training in Guatemala, where there are still standing structures of ruins from the last capital city for the Mayans from 1463.
This was taken in October 2010 after the inauguration of 8 water faucets for my school, La Felicidad, in Guatemala. Pictured here are me and two students after the inauguration.
At a workshop of the new Primary Five Curriculum Rollout, I took this picture of our participants (P5 teachers) engaging in some of the stations I had set up. The new P5 curriculum is focus on learner-centered teaching. This station is a math...
I took this photo from the vantage point of the staff room of the Jinja Primary Teachers' College in July 2011. We are neighbors with a primary school and share the land. This picture shows some children playing dodge ball, while a cow grazes in...
I took this picture at the Jinja market, right when the workers started flooding in, picking up things for dinner. I was overwhelmed because I rarely go during busy times.
In Senegal, men dress up as lions and parade around neighborhoods roaring and baring their teeth as children shriek with both joy and fear. Community associations rent out these lions for the weekend to raise money for community projects. When the...
This photo was taken during an Alcohol and Drug Abuse Awareness Walk in asmall village in Botswana where I have served since June 2010. The photo shows a student holding a placard during the event which alerts young people living with HIV/AIDS to...
I took this photo of a fellow Volunteer, Paco, pinning HIV/AIDS ribbons on orphans and vulnerable children at a youth forum in Bobirwa Region on World AIDS Day, December 2010. We held a candlelight vigil to honor those we have lost to HIV/AIDS and...
This photo, taken September 2011 in the uThukela District of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, shows a role play depicting stigma in the family, part of TAMCC's (Thukela Amajuba Mzinyathi Christian Council) initiative on Churches Challenging Stigma....
These three men are pastors who are part of TAMCC's Male Caregivers Programme. This photo was taken in November 2011 in South Africa, in the epicenter of the world's HIVAIDS pandemic. These pastors are participating in a two-day stigma symposium...
Waiting for the start of World AIDS Day training in a township in South Africa are members of the Christian Church of Africa, whose Archbishop was the first to welcome PLWHAs into churches in his diocese. Also depicted is Volunteer Mary Pat...
A male caregiver and youth leader demonstrate what 'stigma in the community' looks like in a role play that was part of a two day Stigma Symposium held in South Africa in November, 2011. Here the older man helps his young friend while community...
This photo, taken on World AIDS Day 2011 at the Christian Church of Africa located South Africa, depicts Thukela Amajuba Mzinyathi (TAMCC) staff person teaching about human rights pertaining to HIV/AIDS and stigma. This was one of 16 events that...