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    • HIV/AIDS Prayer Flags

    • HIV/AIDS Prayer Flags

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I worked with students in the secondary schools to create prayer flags, "Messages of Hope," about HIV. It was a beautiful activity and students really opened up creating these flags. Some students created memorials, some quotes and some messages...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Childrens Health Day, HIV Testing Event

    • Childrens Health Day, HIV Testing Event

    • HIV/AIDS

    • Childrens Health Day. HIV/AIDs testing for mothers and children, health education and distribution of vitamins. We had an overwhelming amount of mothers and children come to the event. Lesotho has one of the highest HIV rates in the world.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Education for a AIDs-Free Generation

    • Education for a AIDs-Free Generation

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken inside a classroom at Mashai Primary School, in the remote mountains of Lesotho. It's estimated that 23% of the population of Lesotho is infected with HIV/AIDS. At Mashai Primary School 1/3 of the students are orphans. ...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Remote HIV Outreach

    • Remote HIV Outreach

    • HIV/AIDS

    • Hike to a remote village in the mountains near Mokhotlong, Lesotho. Peace Corps volunteers assisted organization Touching Tiny Lives in identifying mothers and children with HIV/AIDS in the most remote areas of Lesotho. Volunteers provided...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • HIV Prayer Flags

    • HIV Prayer Flags

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I worked with HIV support groups in the Mashai River Valley in Lesotho to make "prayer flags" for HIV/AIDS. We went around to remote schools in the mountainous district of Thaba Tseka to ask students and teachers to create messages of hope about...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Lesotho Cemetery

    • Lesotho Cemetery

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This cemetery full of small, child-sized graves is a common sight in Lesotho where over 20% of the population is infected with HIV/AIDS. Volunteers in Peace Corps Lesotho are working with mothers and village health care workers in Lesotho to help...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Education

    • Education

    • HIV/AIDS

    • I took this photo walking to St. Theresa Primary School in Lesotho. Lesotho has one of the highest HIV/AIDS rates in the world. Primary education is free, but only goes up to 5th grad. Education is a key in helping Lesotho have an HIV/AIDS-free...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cultural Exchange in Lesotho

    • Cultural Exchange in Lesotho

    • Children; Host community friends

    • A Peace Corps Volunteer and a herd boy enjoy time together at Semonkong Falls in Lesotho. Children in Lesotho are usually curious about white skin and this boy really wanted to check out the Volunteer’s hand. This duo was with a group of children...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Basotho Herd Boy

    • Basotho Herd Boy

    • Host families; Animals; Terrain

    • Abuti, a herd boy, on his donkey collecting corn feed for the cows. This 14 year old boy spends most days walking across the mountains in the Senqu river valley of Lesotho, herding my host family's cow, donkeys and sheep.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Grandmother in Lesotho

    • Grandmother in Lesotho

    • Host families; Elders; Housing

    • My host family Grandmother. Too old to work in the fields, she spends most days sitting against the stone wall of her hut absorbing the heat of the stones. She patiently sorts grain and beans, watches the goings-on of the village and sends all her...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Journal Writing

    • Journal Writing

    • Housing; Terrain

    • Self portrait of daily life in my village. Every afternoon I would sit in the doorway of my rondavel and journal, read or play the guitar as I watched the sunset over the Drakensburg mountains in Lesotho.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Peace Corps staff physician: an adventure in medicine

    • The Peace Corps staff physician: an adventure in medicine

    • Marketing campaigns; Doctors; Medicine

    • Full text of a brochure aimed at recruiting medical doctors to serve as Peace Corps staff physicians. Discusses ways that Peace Corps doctors provided support to both Volunteers and host communities throughout the world. Although no exact date of...
    • Brochures

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