This is my favorite photo of my host brother and our neighbor skateboarding at sunset. I taught them how to skate along with many other children by creating a unique skateboard program.
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...
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.
We had a "snow day" in the Eastern Cape, the first time the locals have ever seen that much snow. So I rounded up a few of the local kids and taught them how to build a snowman. Later we had a snowball fight and we tried to make one giant snow...
This photo is of my five-year-old neighbor Lindi in Mzinti, South Africa from November 8, 2010. Lindi is holding a recently donated Elmo doll from the United States. She supports it alongside her back with a tied cloth in the same manner that rural...
In June 2010, excitement surrounding the FIFA World Cup reverberated from the cities to the rural areas of South Africa. In this photo, kids in Mzinti, South Africa are playing soccer at the local grounds as the opening match team, the national...
A Mozambican migrant waits in line on September 3, 2010 at the organization that I work for in order to register for identity documents. In South Africa there are a large number of mobile and undocumented persons, which has implications on...
This is my host mother from the village of Phoshiri in northern South Africa (Limpopo Province). The village just received electricity in late 2007 but many of the traditional means of life have not changed (I.e., cooking over a fire). My host...
Host families; Cooking; Pre-service Training (PST)
This photo was taken during my pre-service training in 2008 in South Africa. My host parents were very happy people and lived alone without children (their children are grown). They were always joking and laughing. We spent a lot of time in...
Host families; Pre-service Training (PST); Cooking
The photo was taken in 2008 during my pre-service training. This was my training host mother and she was training me to make traditional "pap" or "bogobe" which is eaten throughout rural South Africa. It was a real treat for her to show me how to...