Brotherly love. Hands for Americas Fearless Leaders.
William Valejos, Fundador y Director Ejecutivo
Pedro Vallejos, Fundador y Director Honduras
William Valejos, Fundador y Director Ejecutivo
Pedro Vallejos, Fundador y Director Honduras
This photo makes me SMILE!!
“The most important thing is that we are getting the word out so they can tell their friends and family about this disease, and how it is spread,” says Amy Yu, Hands for Americas (HFA) volunteer, on educating the local population on infectious diseases and providing rapid HIV/AIDS testing.
Infectious Disease Clinic – During their time in Panama, @HFA groups are exposed to the struggle against infectious diseases like HIV/AIDS, Malaria, and TB through hands-on clinic Days. *Marcos bravely gets his malaria shot – what a trooper! Photo Credit: Kari Foster, Backpod
Lots of photos and video to go through during the next few weeks – this image was taken by Tyler Hays (iPhone cameras are fabulous) while driving up to an indigenous community north of Aguadulce. Lots of things to come — check back soon!
-B
Kari Foster, Backpod co-founder & artist: http://www.backpod.org – Bridgette Cyr, Photography Guru – Tyler Hays, Video Guru: http://vimeo.com/44363077)
“Social media is critical to the development and promotion of service learning programs. Besides capturing experiences for recollection, social media has the potential to attract interest and ultimately, logistical and monetary support. It is important to see who is involved, what type of work they do, where volunteers would be working and why the work is important to the specific host community. Prior to joining the Global Brigades, I had never participated in a service-learning program abroad, and had rarely traveled outside of the U.S. Backpod greatly contributed to my decision because they were able to visually capture aspects of the trip that could not be depicted by text. Of course someone could make the claim that “the children were happy when the volunteers finished the project,” but being able to see the “happy children” embrace the volunteers has a much greater impact upon prospective supporters.” – Jimmy Taitano Camacho, Global Water Brigades Volunteer
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