I took this photo in Pomabamba, Ancash on April 1st, 2011 during a PEPFAR training workshop for Peace Corps Volunteers and their community counterparts. The photo shows two women playing the game "telephone," in which a complicated phrase is...
This photo was taken in Corrales, Tumbes, Peru, on the eve of World AIDS Day, 2009. We received a small PEPFAR grant to run a year-long HIV prevention program, focused on training youth peer educators and educating the community about prevention...
camps and clubs; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)
I took this photo during a GLOW (Girls Leading Our World) camp in Piura, Peru during February, 2010. A large component of this girls' leadership weekend was teaching about sexual education. Here, one of the girls from my town, Yocelin, practices...
Music; Celebrations; Host community; traditional dress
I took this photo in November, 2009 at the going away party for my site mate, Michael. The festivities included much traditional song and dance, which was led by this charming young boy singing a soulful mariachi tune.
These high school girls just finished dancing a typical kichwa dance representing their culture at an exposition in Tena, Ecuador. The dance competition was between rural and urban high schools in the region with categories such as original and...
I took this photo in Peru on November 29th, 2009. My main project during my service was to promote HIV and AIDS prevention among young people in my site. Here my committee of community leaders and I organized a candlelight vigil to honor those...
I took this photo on my last full day in my community of Malval, Tumbes, Peru on November 12, 2010. During my service I taught my three host nephews (pictured left to right: Jhosue, Isaac, and Joel) how to bake many things. Here we are baking a...
This photo is taken on the Rio Napo in Ecuador. A leaf called 'barbasco' is traditionally used as a fishing technique, as it consumes the oxygen in the water through its natural toxins and the fish die. The crushed leaf is released in the water...