Caribbean
Photojournalist Mary Chind recalls the memorable beginning of a trip for American volunteers who traveled to rural Haiti with Community Health Initiative.
Volunteers from the Community Health Initiative are seen here in action during their week-long clinics in rural Haiti, where they meet with hundreds of villagers.
In the face of discrimination some people choose to make their HIV status publicly known. They set an example in their towns, helping to fight the sigma that exists.
Instagram scenes of people living with HIV and the communities where they live.
In Cuba, people talk fast but they embrace outsiders even faster, both figuratively and literally. After all, they’re not in a hurry to do much else.
After studying for two weeks at Organoponico Vivero Alamar, an organic cooperative farm in Cuba, Alejandro Rivera, a dentist from Mexico, hopes to start a similar cooperative at home.
On an organic and sustainable farm, life is lush, for both the plants and the people.
Documentary producer Micah Fink is running a Kickstarter campaign to raise $35,000 to finish a film on the stories of gay people in one of the most violently homophobic countries: Jamaica.
Outside of Havana, a quiet urban farm gets creative with its practices and offers its workers a unique job environment.
Farm workers at Organoponico Vivero Alamar, an organic, sustainable farm in Cuba can earn more than government employees. This project explores what other countries can learn from Cuba's model.
In the Garifuna village of Corozal, the impact of HIV isn’t a mere statistic in a report. It’s everywhere. And everyone knows it, whether they talk about it or not.
Photographer David Rochkind and reporter Jens Erik Gould introduce themselves and their project "The Forgotten: HIV and the Garifuna of Honduras."
Follow grantees David Rochkind and Jens Erik Gould in the field on Storify as they report on the Garifuna and their use of culture to fight the spread of HIV.