After more than a decade of war ravaged the village of Freetown in Sierra Leone, the infrastructure remains in ruins and the people now live with the physical and emotional scars of a country taken by violence.
Randy French teaches middle school science in western New York State and recently travelled to Ghana with the Teachers for Global Classrooms program; where he spent a week at the Accra Girls school.
Maxx Moses, a gifted graffiti muralist from New York, worked on a special project for World AIDS Day that used urban art to raise awareness about HIV prevention and testing.