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    • Youth Visions HIV Prevention Mural

    • Youth Visions HIV Prevention Mural

    • HIV/AIDS; Art

    • This photo was taken during the unveiling of an HIV prevention mural painted in 2008 in collaboration with the students from Kongo SS in the Upper East Region of Ghana. This was the culmination of a six week project focused on collaboration between...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Yearn for Education

    • Yearn for Education

    • Art

    • I took this photo February, 2012 in Carpuela (Valle de Chota) Imbabura, Ecuador. It depicts artist Alicia Villaba's view of the yearning and longing for a better education for the young Afro-Ecuadorians in her community. This power piece is made...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World Map Project

    • World Map Project

    • Schools; Teachers and students; Art; World Map Project

    • The photo was taken in March of 2008. My students and I were working on a World Map Project. We took a large wall that everyone walks past at the school and drew a mural of a world map. This photo shows us in the finishing stages of painting it. We...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World AIDS Day 2011 in Burkina Faso

    • World AIDS Day 2011 in Burkina Faso

    • HIV/AIDS; Celebrations; Art

    • Volunteers Luis, Scott, and Joey commemorate World AIDS day 2011 with their community in Burkina Faso. The mural was a great way to get the community interested in talking about HIV/AIDS. The Volunteers held multiple information sessions on...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • World AIDS Day

    • World AIDS Day

    • HIV/AIDS; Art

    • This is the mural painting by itself after the completion for World AIDS Day 2011 in a town in Guatemala. This mural was painted in front of the health center to raise HIV awareness for the entire town.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Working with Orphans

    • Working with Orphans

    • Art; Teachers and students

    • This photo was taken at a health center in Ethiopia. The Volunteer is encouraging children who were orphaned by HIV to be creative and express themselves using art (paper and markers).
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Women's Chorus in Vilkova, Ukraine

    • Women's Chorus in Vilkova, Ukraine

    • Art; Traditional Dress; Celebrations

    • One of the many women's choruses at a Festival of Russian Culture in Vilkova, Ukraine, 2009. This region of southern Ukraine was formerly called Bessarabia, and I have been told that there are more than 30 ethnic groups or cultures in Odessa...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Women Making Tapa

    • Women Making Tapa

    • Artisans; Crafts; Art

    • Women from a small village on the island of 'Eua spend the day painting tapa cloth. These cloths can be up to 50 feet long and are made from the bark of a tree. The cloths, once finished are given as gifts at many events, such as weddings,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Village Art Day

    • Village Art Day

    • children; environment

    • On May 25, 2010, in the small Georgian village of Kvibisi, our Business and Social Entrepreneurship group conducted an Art Day for children in the village. In small groups, the kids used art supplies and natural elements like twigs and berries to...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Under the Palaver Tree

    • Under the Palaver Tree

    • Art

    • While serving in Liberia, West Africa in 1981-82, I was stationed in Cape Palmas teaching Architecture. Because I am an artist I made many watercolor studies of the people and their environments throughout the area. Now I have revived several of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Transporting Computers

    • Transporting Computers

    • art; technology

    • This is a photo of an original watercolor painted by a fellow PCV. It depicts one of my secondary projects - bringing donated computers to my school by whatever means necessary. I was a teacher at Khwalala Day Secondary School, Mulanje District,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Traditional Guanacaste Dance

    • Traditional Guanacaste Dance

    • Schools; Art

    • I painted this mural of a couple dancing, in traditional Guanacaste dress, on the exterior of the primary school in La Cruz de Abangares, Guanacaste, Costa Rica. It is part of a large mural project I led with the students consisting of cultural...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Shkodra Owl

    • The Shkodra Owl

    • Signs; Art

    • This drawing was submitted to the Peace Corps Albania newsletter, Hajde! Hajde! in 2008. It depicts a Volunteer rendition of one of the local animals, a one-eyed owl kept safely dog chained at a popular crossroads coffee bar. The owl came to be an...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • The Recent History of Anguilla

    • The Recent History of Anguilla

    • Art

    • There are 4 murals that depict the history of Anguilla from the time of Columbus, to the present day, circa 1981. This was painted by a local artist as a gift to the people of Anguilla, and is from a mural in the main government building.
    • Volunteer Photos

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