This is a photo of my volunteer club, Together We Can Succeed. The kids are from a small village in Bulgaria , called Svoboda. We created the awareness ribbon cookies by hand, and wrapped them to be sold for future HIV/AIDS prevention projects. The...
This is a photo of my volunteer club, Together We Can Succeed. The kids are from a small village in Bulgaria, called Svoboda. We created the awareness ribbon cookies by hand, and wrapped them to be sold for future HIV/AIDS prevention projects. The...
This photo was taken on December 1st, 2011 at a PEPFAR funded HIV awareness event in the Volunteer's town square. You can plainly see the "promoter" words on their T-shirts as well as an HIV awareness ribbon, methods of contraception, the words ETS...
This photo was taken on December 1st, 2011 after a PEPFAR funded HIV awareness event in the Volunteer's town square. You can plainly see the "promoter" words on their T- shirts, HIV awareness ribbons, and members of the staff of the local health...
This photo was taken on December 1st, 2011 at a PEPFAR funded HIV awareness event in the Volunteer's town square as he registered members of a school to participate in a contest between nine schools about HIV awareness. You can plainly see the huge...
This photo was taken on December 1st, 2011 at a PEPFAR funded HIV awareness event in the Volunteer's town square. You can plainly see the volunteer carrying in a large table for the event with a health center member and trainee, an AIDS ribbon on...
This photo was taken on December 1st, 2011 at a PEPFAR funded HIV awareness event in the volunteer's town square. You can plainly see the volunteer speaking with community partners before the event and an HIV ribbon on his arm.
This photo was taken of students on December 1st, 2011 at a PEPFAR funded HIV awareness event in the Volunteer's town square. You can plainly see signs dedicated to HIV, a condom costume, and a dance routine.
This photo was taken of students on December 1st, 2011 at a PEPFAR funded HIV awareness event in the Volunteer's town square. You can plainly see the HIV/AIDS sign in the background. They are performing a skit dedicated to preventing discrimination...
This photo was taken on December 1st, 2011 at a PEPFAR funded HIV awareness event in the Volunteer's town square. You can plainly see the large poster made by students at a secondary school and a teenage girl talking about their project.
I took this photo of a fellow Volunteer, Paco, pinning HIV/AIDS ribbons on orphans and vulnerable children at a youth forum in Bobirwa Region on World AIDS Day, December 2010. We held a candlelight vigil to honor those we have lost to HIV/AIDS and...
This photo was taken at one of the HIV and AIDS Prevention Education Workshops in Asuncion, Paraguay. These workshops were collaborative efforts from HIV and AIDS education professionals from the Ministry of Health and Peace Corps Volunteers....
This photo was taken in Capiata, Paraguay - a community located one hour outside the capitol. Often, it is referred to as a "dormotorio" community, or a place where you sleep, as the majority of the residents commute into the capitol for work. This...
This photo was taken at an HIV and AIDS prevention education workshop in Asuncion, Paraguay. The presenter is a professional educator who works with the National Secretariat of Children and Adolescents and had been working with this particular...
I took this photo on December 1, 2011 at the World AIDS Day event in my community in Dominican Republic. Our youth group Escojo Mi Vida ("I Choose My Life") prepared and presented informational talks and dramas about HIV/AIDS. The photo shows some...
This is a photo of Dominican youth playing 'Find the Ball,' a game from the HIV prevention initiative Deportes para la Vida. Youth pass a ball from one another behind their backs in order to see if they can guess where it stops. The ball...
This is a photo taken of club Superman in Dominican Republic. The group is for young boys and is facilitated by a local teenager, Victor. He is a wonderful role model and facilitates HIV prevention games that are taught in the Deportes para la...
This is a photo of a mural done on the front of an elementary school in Dominican Republic by the group Brilliant Girls. The mural depicts children's rights and features some of the painters and their proud work! One of the rights says freedom...
This is a photo taken in Dominican Republic. Kristy, a youth Yolunteer in the DR, is facilitating a HIV prevention game called juggling life with her Sports for Life group. The youth have to try to juggle balls that represent different...
This photo was taken on December 1, 2011, at the World AIDS Day event in my community's church, Carlos Pinto, Dominican Republic. I am kneeling at the center surrounded by some of the youth members of our HIV/AIDS awareness group Escojo Mi Vida (I...