The Stars of Tomorrow is an HIV peer education program made possible through VAST funds. The three-day training took place January 31 through February 2, 2011. Twenty-one unemployed, out of school youth in their 20s were trained to be HIV peer...
Over the past year, I have been working with a youth club with the aim of lifeskills education and girls' empowerment. Part of our aim is empowerment through health and ownership of one's body. Every Wednesday after school, anywhere from 15-25...
For the past 9 months, I have been working with a group of Grannys (in South Africa they are known as Gogos) to form a health education group. Often the ones left to cook, clean, and care for young babies while their own children go to cities to...
I took this photo in Naas, South Africa on March 23, 2011. The woman pictured is the grandmother or Gogo in siSwati of a client that I work with. Gogos have frequently become the primary care givers in a country where many children are orphaned as...
I'm a current Volunteer in South Africa (since July 2008). One of my primary projects this entire time has been an after-school Art Club with Grades 4-7 at one of our schools. Just this year I got some supplies for teaching the kids painting,...
This picture was taken on June 9, 2010, the last day of school for the term before a big holiday for the World Cup. All the staff and learners who had soccer jerseys wore them that day and also brought vuvuzelas (a traditional South African soccer...
This photo was taken on December 1st, 2011 in South Africa at a primary school in celebration of the school's first recognition of World AIDS Day. Here a grade 6 learner reads a poem she has written for the school event for World AIDS Day...
This photo was taken on December 1st, 2011 in South Africa at a primary school in celebration of the school's first recognition of World AIDS Day. Here two primary school life skills teachers, Ma Chabaemang (right) and Ma Leabile (center), stand...
For World Aids Day 2010, the community gathered together to put on an amazing event. The community experienced performances from students and youth, HIV education, personal testimonies from people living with HIV, condom demonstrations,...
This photo was taken at the end of my organization's World AIDS Day Awareness Campaign on December 2, 2011 in South Africa. This image is of the four Volunteers who helped make the awareness campaign such a huge success. The "flag" they are...
I took this photo on December 9, 2010 during the 16 Days of Activism, an annual campaign on gender-based violence. In one of our door-to-door outreach efforts in Block A, South Africa, a woman invited me and my coworkers into her house to...
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...
I took this photo at my organization's World AIDS Day Awareness Campaign on December 2, 2011 in a village in South Africa. After the formal program of the day, different activites were organized to get the attendees of the event to think about the...
This picture was taken on the east coast of South Africa. Every Sunday I walk 3 hours to the beach and often times students come with me. To date, 50 students have come with me. In this picture there are five girls, two 5th graders, one 6th...
Dancing in the village... Our host brothers and some other local boys excited to get their photo taken. After the 2010 FIFA World Cup, Shakira's Waka Waka (This Time for Africa) was hugely popular song in South Africa.
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...
Early in my services, Knowledge (the finance manager at my NGO site) and his son took me on a tour of surrounding communities. Caught in unexpected rain and wind, both struggled for shelter under their umbrellas. Taken in the north of the Limpopo...
This photo was taken on December 1st, 2011 in South Africa at a primary school in celebration of the school's first recognition of World AIDS Day. Here a group of girls from grade 7 perform a song they wrote about the stigma of having HIV/AIDS and...