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    • World AIDS Day 2007 in Galilaya, Uganda

    • World AIDS Day 2007 in Galilaya, Uganda
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    • Galilaya is a fishing village located on Lake Kyoga at one of the northern most points in Kayunga District. Makerere University Walter Reed Project (MUWRP) collaborated with a Peace Corps Volunteer, Katherine Peters to do HIV education in Kayunga...
    • Weaving Mats

    • Weaving Mats
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    • This photo was taken in September 2009 during Peace Corps training while I was staying with my host family. My host mother and auntie were teaching me how to weave mats on the weekends. I (Bina Contreras) am on the left, my host mother "Mama...
    • Watching the Games

    • Watching the Games
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    • This photo was taken in July, 2011 during an school track and field competition at the primary teachers college where I serve as an education volunteer. Despite my lack of technical knowledge on track and field events, I helped run practices...
    • Village Health Team Training

    • Village Health Team Training
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    • Here, I'm teaching at a village health team training about diarrhea and dehydration and how to prepare oral rehydration solution (ORS). The village health team program is an initiative of the Ministry of Health to train local residents in...
    • Victory

    • Victory
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    • I work as an education volunteer in Southwestern Uganda and recently had the opportunity to help the students at my school prepare for a regional track and field competition. This photo shows two of my students as the 10k race was finished. The...
    • Ugandan Teachers Have Fun with Math

    • Ugandan Teachers Have Fun with Math
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    • At a workshop of the new Primary Five Curriculum Rollout, I took this picture of our participants (P5 teachers) engaging in some of the stations I had set up. The new P5 curriculum is focus on learner-centered teaching. This station is a math...
    • Ugandan Scouts

    • Ugandan Scouts
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    • As an education volunteer, I am placed at a Primary Teachers College in rural Uganda. Recently the college held a regional scouting competition where different troupes came to compete. There were children from age five through twenty-five. I came...
    • Tailoring with Hope

    • Tailoring with Hope
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    • I took this photo during the second month of tailoring classes for local women infected with HIV/AIDS in Uganda. Many of these women have not completed primary school and are using their new technical skills to generate income and empower...
    • School Girls in Bugiri District, Uganda

    • School Girls in Bugiri District, Uganda
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    • In Uganda, all schoolchildren wear uniforms. The color & pattern of the uniform identifies the school. Both girls' & boys' heads are shaved, usually until they have completed school. Half of Uganda's population in under the age of 15 & despite the...
    • Reusable Menstrual Pads in Uganda

    • Reusable Menstrual Pads in Uganda
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    • This photo was taken at a training for senior headwoman teachers and headteachers. The teachers are learning to sew reusable menstrual pads from affordable, locally available materials so that they can teach their upper primary girl students how to...
    • Remembrance

    • Remembrance
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    • Photo was taken in Uganda at the International Candlelight Memorial 2012. Faith, age 6, is placing a candle in remembrance of the victims of AIDS. Faith was abandoned around the age of 4 and has tested HIV negative twice but some of her fellow...
    • Rainbow Peace Ambassadors Drama

    • Rainbow Peace Ambassadors Drama
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    • The photo was taken in Uganda, November 2011. This was the Peace Club doing a drama for the community on Conflict Resolution/HIV/AIDS/Alcohol & Drugs. Over 500 people in the community attended. The Peace Club was developed when the youth...
    • Rainbow Peace Ambassadors Drama

    • Rainbow Peace Ambassadors Drama
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    • The photo was taken in Uganda, November 2011. This was the Peace Club doing a drama for the community on Conflict Resolution/HIV/AIDS/Alcohol & Drugs. Over 500 people in the community attended. The Peace Club was developed when the youth...
    • Processional

    • Processional
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    • As an education volunteer in southwestern Uganda, I have the opportunity to work on various secondary projects with local primary schools. In one nearby school, I facilitated a drama club where children could have the opportunity to express...
    • Primary at Recess

    • Primary at Recess
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    • I took this photo from the vantage point of the staff room of the Jinja Primary Teachers' College in July 2011. We are neighbors with a primary school and share the land. This picture shows some children playing dodge ball, while a cow grazes in...
    • Prevention through Murals

    • Prevention through Murals
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    • This photo was taken in Biikira Parish, Rakai district, in Southern Uganda. It is on the wall of the maternity ward at St. Joseph Health Center III. The student, John Paul, is painting a mural that encourages pregnant HIV positive women to go for...

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