PCTs in my training cluster wanted to celebrate everyone's birthday together, but knowing we would not be able to attend everyone's real birthday, we celebrated one "unbirthday" each week of PST.
This photo was taken in Togo, West Africa in May 2010, after I had been at post for 9 months. The subject is one of my favorite neighborhood children - Odeke - who "warmed up to the resident Yovo" and came to draw each morning on my front...
This photo is of our stall or tent at World AIDS Day Commemoration on December 9th, 2010 in Gaborone, Botswana in Tsholofelo Park. We are with the banner we carried on a long march (Stop AIDS Keep the Promise).
Burundi wildlife conservation volunteers with Dr. Jane Goodall at the start of a chimpanzee conservation and rescue project. Left to right: Kevin M. Doyle, Don Gay, Jane Goodall, Matt Criblez, Anne Bartlett, Leif Davenport, and Charlotte Uhlenbroek...
This was taken at the Jane Goodall Chimp Sanctuary in Bujumbura, Burundi. While I was living in Bujumbura on the weekends I used to volunteer at the sanctuary to help feed and play with the chimps. Aly, the chimp in my right arm was one of my...
Press and media; Peace Corps Directors; Kennedy, John F.;
Full text of the March 4, 1961 White House press release announcing the appointment of Sargent Shriver as first Director of the Peace Corps. Also provides brief biographies of early Peace Corps staff members.