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    • Host Family Madness

    • Host Family Madness

    • Host families; Children

    • This photo is a picture of me and some of the kids living on my host family's homstead in northern Swaziland. It was taken during a 'silly faces' photoshoot when I returned to my host family homestead from PST for a visit in early August 2011. We...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Lightning Strike

    • Lightning Strike

    • Terrain

    • Taken during my integration period as a Volunteer serving in Swaziland. I sat during a rain storm with the front door of my hut opened for a bit trying to catch a lightning strike off in the distance. About three minutes into my efforts I was...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Croc

    • Croc

    • Animals

    • Africa. Mlilwane Game Reserve, Swaziland, July 2010. This was taken during our first trip away from our training village during pre-service training, having been in Swaziland less then a month. We took a trip to the Mlilwane Game Reserve to see...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Fighting the African Sun!!

    • Fighting the African Sun!!

    • Volunteers; Pre-service Training (PST)

    • Africa Swaziland Group 8 (PST) Pictured is Fred and Krista July 2010 Swaziland Cultural Center This photo was taken during PST. At the time we were only in Swaziland for less then a month, this was the first trip away from our training site and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Positive and Negative Brotherhood

    • Positive and Negative Brotherhood

    • HIV-AIDS

    • This photo was taken in November of 2011 in central Swaziland. Two boys are walking home from school, one is HIV positive and the other HIV negative. Swaziland has a HIV prevalence between 26-33% percent depending on what study you are looking...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Creative Teaching

    • Creative Teaching

    • Teachers and students; Education; HIV-AIDS

    • This photo was taken at a school in central Swaziland in November of 2011. The students had been exposed to HIV messages for years, but this was their first interactive lesson. The lesson (and subsequent lessons) were very successful. Students...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Pointed in the Right Direction

    • Pointed in the Right Direction

    • Children; HIV-AIDS

    • A Community WORTH group was meeting in the lowveld of Swaziland in Feburary of 2012. WORTH groups consist of 20-30 women who meet to discuss HIV issues and work on micro finance. When women are able to pull together and succeed, the OVC in that...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Old Enough to Know a Good Thing

    • Old Enough to Know a Good Thing

    • HIV-AIDS; Elders

    • This photo was taken during a community WORTH meeting in Swaziland. This woman walks more then 40 minutes every week to meet with other women and gain knowledge both of HIV/AIDS prevention and micro-fiance. Well into her 70's and with five...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • One in Four

    • One in Four

    • HIV/AIDS

    • Swaziland currently has the highest HIV rate in the world. One out of every four people is infected with the virus. But everyone in this small but beautiful country is affected. The children of Swaziland suffer the most, many losing their parents...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • One Love Swazi Style

    • One Love Swazi Style

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo is taken of the mural at the local KaGogo center (community center) in Mabondvweni, Swaziland. It is a take on the Swaziland flag by replacing the shield with a man and woman kissing. The intent of the mural is to display the importance...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • STOP and Think!

    • STOP and Think!

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo is of two of the local preschool children in Swaziland. Learning about 'STOPPING' and thinking before you go near someone else's blood. The children learned the common 'stop' hand signal when learning about HIV and proudly displayed it...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World AIDS Day, getting to zero.

    • World AIDS Day, getting to zero.

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo is taken on December 1st, 2011 in Swaziland. In organizing a day event at the local primary school to raise awareness and decrease stigma of HIV/AIDS, the students participated in various ways. This picture is of young primary school...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Cookin' for Health

    • Cookin' for Health
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    • On World AIDS Day on December 1st, 2011 the local primary school hosted an event in honor of all those with HIV and the ones who have lost the struggle against AIDS. These two bo-make (mothers) prepared the food for the community members as well as...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • STOP AIDS!

    • STOP AIDS!

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken in May 2012, outside the local preschool. The children learned about putting a 'STOP' to AIDS and basics on how to avoid getting the virus. The kids were drawing in the sand showing the hand signal to stopping AIDS.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • United We Stand

    • United We Stand

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken at the World AIDS Day event in a community in Swaziland. This group of young primary students are a part of the school's health club. They performed a drama about 'getting to zero' in terms of zero new infections, zero related...
    • Volunteer Photos

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