I took this picture during the World AIDS Day march in 2010 in Ecuador. Many children, youth, adults, and local organizations participated in the march. This was one of the signs that the participants made.
We had a bike ride on World AIDS Day in Piman, Thailand. All riders wore a sign on their back with the themes of "Getting to Zero." More than 120 children/adults rode in a caravan. This was a picture when the ride was finished. The ride took place...
For World Aids Day 2010, the community gathered together to put on an amazing event. The community experienced performances from students and youth, HIV education, personal testimonies from people living with HIV, condom demonstrations,...
In Georgia, where talking about HIV and AIDS is taboo, it can be difficult to raise awareness and spread accurate information about this important health issue. However, 14 high school students stepped up to the challenge in Akhaltsikhe as part of...
I took this photo in December of 2012 at a high school in Cameroon. The Health Club and Girls Empowerment Club partnered together to hold a series of events for the school population to commemorate World AIDS Day. The most popular part was the...
This picture was taken at my local market, in a village in Burkina Faso. We were celebrating World AIDS Day 2011 by creating a mural with HIV/AIDS prevention images and explaining those images to the public. We played games, asked the audience...
This photo was taken on December 1st, 2011 in South Africa at a primary school in celebration of the school's first recognition of World AIDS Day. Here two primary school life skills teachers, Ma Chabaemang (right) and Ma Leabile (center), stand...
This photo was taken on December 1st, 2011 in South Africa at a primary school in celebration of the school's first recognition of World AIDS Day. Here a grade 6 learner reads a poem she has written for the school event for World AIDS Day...
While in Burkina Faso working on a World AIDS Day project, I painted a wall, taught proper condom usage, and had middle school students promise to live healthy lifestyles by putting their hand prints on the wall. Part of the promise that the middle...
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...
This picture was taken on June 9, 2010, the last day of school for the term before a big holiday for the World Cup. All the staff and learners who had soccer jerseys wore them that day and also brought vuvuzelas (a traditional South African soccer...
I'm a current Volunteer in South Africa (since July 2008). One of my primary projects this entire time has been an after-school Art Club with Grades 4-7 at one of our schools. Just this year I got some supplies for teaching the kids painting,...
This picture was taken in Cotonou Benin in June 2010 (late Malaria Day celebrations). A theatrical group form Allada Benin was hired to put on a skit about malaria. In this scene, the girl standing is acting as a mosquito and is showing how she...
As a PCRV in Liberia, I joined the Liberian Red Cross in a World Malaria Day 2010 rally in downtown Tubmanburg, Liberia. Participants marched through downtown ending at the Red Cross Headquarters, where an informational program was given.
This photo was taken inside a classroom at a men's prison in July of 2008 in Concepcion, Paraguay. I organized a world map mural with eight prisoners who were working on achieving their high school diplomas while they finished their prison...
This photo was taken in January 2013. My friend and I helped create a world map at my primary school, and the local community members and children loved to sit and watch us while we drew out the individual countries. Some were even brave enough to...