Peace Corps Uganda World AIDS Day 2009

This is how I spent my last two years of service in the village Kiwangala, Uganda. I made this movie with a group of students who had become orphans due to the AIDS epidemic in our community.

The development projects that I worked on with Kiwangala and the U.S. Peace Corps were directed towards a population who were already HIV positive. Emphasis was put on nutrition, agriculture, hygiene, sanitation, and education.

These efforts, combined with ARV therapy, ward-off opportunistic infections that attack an already weakened immune system. Those living positively so can continue their lives in a healthy and productive manner.

You can read more about Kiwangala here:

http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=learn.whatvol.foodsecurity.volstori...

and here:

http://www.america.gov/st/develop-english/2010/March/20100311120226asucram0.7...

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[jplarroque]

@kyamadde The children gardening in the video are students. They are wearing ties because it is part of their uniforms.

[kyamadde]

I am a Ugandan but people do not wear tie to go gardening

[jplarroque]

@muddypurlieu Thanks for watching.

[muddypurlieu]

Thank you for sharing this.