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...
Melissa Kadzik is weighing a baby at a monthly baby weighing and education session for mothers in Toweta Benin. January 2008. Babies are weighed hanging from the scale. Most babies were more scared of the white girl then hanging from the scale.
In this picture I am overlooking my Sierra/mountain community in Peru. I would climb up to the Cerro Miramar (Mountain Looking out to the ocean) typically at a bi-weekly rate to gain perspective of my work, see the outer perimeter of my district...
My old rural site of Mache is located in the Sierra or mountains of La Libertad in Peru, and overlooking Mache is Cerro Miramar (mountain looking out to the ocean). I would climb the cerro on a biweekly basis to gain perspective - see the entire...
This photo was taken at Waterberg Primary School in Ongombombonde, Namibia (Otjozondjupa Region) June 6, 2009 . The school and PCV solicited for an in-kind donation of teddy bears for the full first grade class (100+ students) from an organization...
This photo was taken at a local fundraising dinner event in Okakarara, Namibia on Aug 21, 2009. I wore a friends traditional Herero dress and am photographed with a fellow teacher. It was a great honor to be invited to the event with my other...
This photo features a group of 5th graders at Waterberg Primary School in Ongombombonde, Namibia (Otjozondjupa Region). It was taken November 10, 2009 shortly after the new computers arrived and the desks and painting had been completed. Along...
This photo was taken in the open courtyard at the Waterberg Primary School in Ongombombonde, Namibia (Otjozondjupa Region) on November 24, 2009. As a small rural village, there only form of trash collection was through the dedicated work of a...
This photo was taken on August 2, 2009 with one of the several Window of Hope groups that I worked with at Waterberg Primary School in Ongombombonde, Namibia (Otjozondjupa Region). Window of Hope is a UNICEF driven educational program made up of...
This photo was taken on July 16, 2008 at Waterberg Primary Schoool in Ongombombonde, Namibia (Otjozondjupa Region). Waterberg Primary is a hostel boarding school where children live and learn year-round. This photo was taken at dusk as the...
I took this photo in June 2012 at La Ressource Combined school in St. Lucia. After seeing the HIV/AIDS awareness pin that I keep on my bag, a couple of grade 5 boys were interested in what it stood for. I came to find out that they knew very little...