Posts tagged Africa
Life is calling. How far will you go?
A Peace Corps Education Volunteer teaches AIDS awareness to deaf students using Kenyan sign language.
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We are committed to the fight against HIV/AIDS
These photos show the final product of the mural the students and teachers painted at my primary school in Burkina Faso in January 2012. The mural followed activities I led with the teachers to teach the students about HIV/AIDS transmission, prevention and stigma.
Peace Corps Health Volunteer Bridget Roby
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My husband, Ben, and I were Volunteers in the rural village of Mokuruanyane, South Africa from 2007-2009. I was a Community & HIV/AIDS Outreach Project Volunteer and Ben was an Education Volunteer.
My primary project was working with four women educators to develop Chrysalis Girls Club, an after-school girls empowerment program for the 75 7th grade girls in our village. In the 2008 school year, six weeks of our program were devoted to women’s reproductive health, sex education, and HIV/AIDS awareness & prevention. The girls designed an HIV/AIDS mural, and Ben worked with five male students from the secondary school to sketch the mural onto the wall of Abbotspoort Higher Primary School.
While I worked with the women educators to provide HIV/AIDS education, Ben supervised the girls in painting the mural. Ben took this photo in November 2008, at the end of our first successful year of Chrysalis Girls Club. The mural faces the main road that runs through Mokuruanyane.
Peace Corps Community Development Volunteer Susia Barr-Wilson
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I was helping make hamburgers and fries with some other Volunteers for some of our Cameroonian friends while visiting my regional capital. I love children here and this young girl seemed amiable enough that I could approach her. She didn’t quite get the fist bump so it turned into a one finger and thus, voila, E.T. phone home!
Peace Corps Volunteer Janelle Walikonis
“In my community, women are often overlooked as a resource.”
- Peace Corps Volunteer Katy Todd, who is working with a fellow Volunteer and their community in Togo to promote women’s empowerment by organizing a national women’s wellness and empowerment conference
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Jumping rope in Lesotho - 2009
Science class in Lesotho - 2009
A Peace Corps Volunteer relaxes with his host mother and host sister in Senegal - 2009
Students in Liberia - 2009
Day 112: October 17, 2012
Photo: The view of the river in Lauren’s village.
