This summer I will be doing my practice experience in St. Michael, Barbados with the Center for Disease and Control (CDC), implementing an HIV/AIDS youth outreach program and volunteering in their summer camp program for children orphaned by AIDS. My organization works specifically to mobilize communities to carry out HIV prevention, AIDS care and education activities in three key populations: men who have sex with men, women sex workers and children living with AIDS.
Being that I have done numerous programs all dealing with this epidemic I want to discover and study the interconnecting problems that surround this epidemic in the States and elsewhere. By volunteering in their Ministry of Health sector, a sector that focuses on building a foundation of true peer outreach and bringing service to the people, I will be able to witness first hand the interconnecting problems of poverty that surround the HIV epidemic on the Island of Barbados.
Although I am really excited to go aboard and be on the Island of Barbados, this whole experience makes me really nervous! I have never traveled outside of the country by myself. Everyone in my organization has been really nice and really welcoming, even before my arrival, so that has help my nervous! I am just really excited to be of serve to this community and really learn and interact with the people of Barbados! Wish me luck!
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