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    • Youth Film-Makers Against HIV/AIDS

    • Youth Film-Makers Against HIV/AIDS

    • HIV/AIDS; Youth development

    • During my first year living in my community in Nicaragua, I loved spending my afternoons working with a youth group making videos about the community. After a while it became too much to continue editing all of the footage myself and so with a...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Watermelon

    • Watermelon

    • HIV/AIDS

    • In parched north-eastern Nicaragua, a watermelon can make the difference between good health and malnourishment. For someone living with HIV/AIDS, it can mean the difference between life and death. This photo was in 2012 taken at a family garden...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Washing Machine

    • Washing Machine

    • Work; Housing

    • This picture was taken by my sister Karen when she came to visit me in Nicaragua in 2001. I got to wash our clothes by hand on the pila, a concrete washboard and sink. This was a source of great amusement and connection with my grandmother who...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Virus de Inmunodeficiencia Humana

    • Virus de Inmunodeficiencia Humana

    • HIV/AIDS

    • Two stick figures are shown demonstrating one important aspect of HIV/AIDS: it only affects human beings. This was taken in Barranquilla, Colombia in 2012 during a Peace Corps workshop and was created by workshop participants.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Vaccination campaign in Cinkasse

    • Vaccination campaign in Cinkasse

    • Maternal and child health; Health; Host community

    • November 29, 2010. A mother holds tight as her baby receives an MMR vaccination during a campaign. You can see the nurse's hands. Many children came to the campaign with incomplete vaccination records.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Vaccination Campaign

    • Vaccination Campaign

    • Medicine; Health

    • Taken on April 22, 2010 in a rural community in my site in Nicaragua. This photo shows me helping the nurse carry the cooler with the vaccines. Every year Nicaragua has a national vaccination campaign for measles, mumps, diphtheria, tetanus etc,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tressez-moi!

    • Tressez-moi!

    • Host community friends; Volunteers; Traditional dress

    • February 2011. I got my hair braided in Cinkasse in northern Togo. I had a great time talking and laughing with these two ladies, two wives of the same husband, while they did their work. Braids and wigs are the style there, as women often have...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Tomasita, with Love

    • Tomasita, with Love

    • Pre-service training (PST); Host families

    • This photo was taken in Nicaragua in September of 2010. The woman in the center is celebrating a birthday. The married couple are current Peace Corps Volunteers, Julie Westerman and Matthew Reid. Tomasita, the woman featured, was host mom to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The School Garden

    • The School Garden

    • Secondary projects; Children; Agriculture; Environment

    • This photo was taken in Nicaragua in the village of Las Palmeras outside of the city of Rivas. I worked with this group of children ages 5-10 at their school to create a tree nursery and organic garden. This project ultimately fulfilled the goal...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Team Work

    • Team Work

    • HIV/AIDS

    • Volunteer Tara and her counterpart work together to provide workshops to hospital staff at a public hospital in Nicaragua. The workshops focus on ensuring equal treatment of HIV positive patients, often times the exception rather than the rule...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Teaching and Learning About Erosion

    • Teaching and Learning About Erosion

    • youth; environment

    • On this day I did a lesson about erosion and my assistant program director came to observe me. She took this photo. This community, Guanacastillo, has a river they use for everything. It was an important lesson for them. We built a mountain of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Standing Up Against HIV

    • Standing Up Against HIV

    • HIV-AIDS; Drama

    • This photo was taken during a workshop on female sexual health in the primary school of a rural farming community. The photo shows Selena Martinez as an HIV virus, surrounded by crouching girls, whom demonstrated white blood cells letting down...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Snake Kill

    • Snake Kill

    • Animals

    • Peace Corps Volunteer Jerry Perkins, left, checks out a dead snake killed near the stick hut where he lived. With him are residents of the agrarian reform colony Los Angeles, where Perkins served as "assessor tecnico" in 1971.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • September 11, 2001

    • September 11, 2001

    • Host community friends; Youth; Terrain

    • This is how I remember September 11th. I went on a school field trip with my teachers and students to the ruins of Old Leon, Nicaragua. After the field trip I was exhausted and hungry. I wanted to get home and make tuna casserole. However, my...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Rosa and the Giant Hershey Bar

    • Rosa and the Giant Hershey Bar

    • Children; Host community; Food and meals

    • This photo depicts a 6th grade student from Nicaragua in April 2002. During my Peace Corps service, I served as an Environmental Education Volunteer and worked in elementary schools. My Peace Corps Partnership Project was to complete the 1st...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Quince Años

    • Quince Años

    • Celebrations; Children; Traditional dress

    • Celebrating a 15th birthday party of the Solentiname Islands. Daniella was a beautiful birthday girl.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Pregame

    • Pregame

    • teachers and students; sports

    • November 2010. This photo was taken at the High School in Cinkasse, northern Togo. Our team is warming up for the big match. Teachers versus Students. I had been working with an environment group of high school students, and they had been...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Pool Tournament

    • Pool Tournament

    • games; health

    • This photo was taken in 2010 in Casas Viejas, El Jicaro, Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua. I did a pool tournament in which groups of men competed in pool and in between each round listened to a lesson about agriculture practices or sexual health. At the...
    • Volunteer Photos

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