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Dimensions1798 x 1198
Original file size1.44 MB
Image typeJPEG
Color spacesRGB
Date taken11-Nov-08 15:32
Date modified11-Nov-08 16:20
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Camera makeCanon
Camera modelCanon PowerShot S40
Focal length8.63 mm
Max lens aperturef/2.8
Exposure1/400 at f/3.2
FlashNot fired, auto mode
Exposure bias0 EV
Exposure modeAuto
Metering modePattern
Digital zoom1x
South Africa

South Africa

HIV/AIDS Mural 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.