This photo was taken on March, 2010 in Karfigula, Burkina Faso during a camp for young girls. The camp used soccer as a tool to educate girls on HIV/AIDS. The photo shows Peace Corps volunteer, Brandon Perkins, and Burkinabe counterpart, leading a...
This photo was taken on in March 2010, in Karfigula, Burkina Faso during HIV/AIDS education camp for girls. The camp, organized by four volunteers, used soccer as a means to educate girls from around Burkina Faso on HIV/AIDS. This photo shows a...
This photo was taken in March 2010, in Karfigula, Burkina Faso during an HIV/AIDS educational camp for girls. The camp, organized by 4 volunteers, brought girls from all over Burkina Faso to learn about HIV/AIDS through soccer. Many of the girls...
In Burkina Faso, my girl's soccer team practiced giving presentations on correct condom usage together before demonstrating their knowledge to the police officers of our community. As part of learning healthy living through sport, condom usage to...
Taken in the dirt field that I used as a shortcut on my walk to work at Hassan II University everyday. These are my neighbors, their kids and their shantytown homes. Taken 11/6/2010.
This photo was taken at a takraw match during Sports Week in a village in Thailand during March, 2011. Takraw is a popular sport in Southeast Asia, in which players use their feet and heads to play a game similar to volleyball. They kick and bunt...
I took this image during a welcome ceremony in a fellow PVC's northern village in Togo. All the community members in his village held activities that displayed the traditions of Togolese. The ceremony opened up with a traditional Fulani wrestling...
My host mom, Fati, had this shirt so of course I had to snap a picture. She had no idea who they were, but I told her all about the storied rivalry of Bama/LSU.
Taken in San Luis Potosi, Mexico with 6 Peace Corps volunteers (Martha, Elizabeth, Paul, Gerry, Charles and Juliet) on June 27th, 2010. We were watching the Mexico/Argentina game in an Irish Pub.