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    • Working with Cooperatives

    • Working with Cooperatives

    • Agriculture; Artisans

    • This Volunteer works with two cooperatives near the northern Colombian port city of Barranquilla. One is an agriculture marketing co-op, the other an artisan co-op where, as shown here, the Volunteer helps the women with designs and with marketing....
    • Agency Photos
    • Horsemanship

    • Horsemanship

    • Animals; Volunteers

    • A Columbia trainee gets a lesson in "horsemanship" near Taos, Columbia. It was raining hard, but that did not deter her teacher.
    • Agency Photos
    • Riding Lessons

    • Riding Lessons

    • Animals; Volunteers; Training

    • A trainee who is Colombia-bound dismounts while still cantering in the riding ring at Taos. Watching in the background is his instructor.
    • Agency Photos
    • Research Program

    • Research Program

    • Children; Health

    • A Peace Corps Volunteer talks to mothers in Barranquilla, Colombia, as part of a research program to determine the effectiveness of the CARE school lunch program and how it might be improved.
    • Agency Photos
    • Playtime

    • Playtime

    • Children; Host community friends

    • A Peace Corps Volunteer at home in Harranquilla with her children and some of their neighborhood friends. She is assigned in Colombia teaching children aged 5-10 reading, writing and arithmetic, having previously worked for CARE, going from house...
    • Agency Photos
    • Colombia

    • Colombia

    • Agriculture

    • This photo was on the front page of "Porvenir," the Peace Corps Colombia newspaper in the summer of 1968. It is now the cover of my memoir Exhaust the Limits, The Life and Times of a Global Peacebuilder. The book includes the story of living and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sylvia and baby Leslie

    • Sylvia and baby Leslie

    • Children

    • Peace Corps Volunteer Sylvia Zellers bathing her new born baby, Leslie. Leslie was born in the University Hospital, Cali Colombia, on 4-25-67 to Peace Corps Community Action Volunteers Jim and Sylvia Zellers.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sarge and Me

    • Sarge and Me

    • Shriver, Sargent; Anniversaries

    • Pictured are Sargent Shriver (l), the first Peace Corps Director, and Paul Arfin (Colombia 1963-1965) in Washington DC to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Peace Corps
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Campesina with Water Jug

    • Campesina with Water Jug

    • Water and sanitation

    • I took this photo in the campo near the town of La Cruz, Narino, Colombia in 1966. Until we constructed a modest waterline down from the mountains, women would have to go down 300' of steep trails to the Rio Mayo to fetch water.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • New Mexico Training

    • New Mexico Training

    • Education; Construction; Pre-service Training (PST)

    • New Mexico Training for Colombia, Volunteer trainees help a parish priest ready the village’s parochial school for its opening the following day. (near Taos)
    • Agency Photos
    • Learning to Prevent

    • Learning to Prevent

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken on May 30, 2012 during an HIV/AIDS workshop with ninth graders in Colombia. It was my counterpart, Leonor Vargas' and I's first workshop with the students after the HIV/AIDS conference in May 2012. We covered stigma and...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Nombres de la Calle

    • Nombres de la Calle

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken on May 30, 2012 during a workshop my counterpart and I gave to a class of ninth graders. This is Leonor Vargas, my counterpart, and a ninth grade student. We are doing a dinamica to show the students how people use all kinds of...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Como se transmite?

    • Como se transmite?

    • HIV/AIDS

    • This photo was taken on May 30, 2012 during a workshop my counterpart Leonor Vargas and I gave to ninth graders on VIH/AIDS. The woman in the picture is Leonor. We made the poster shown with the ways of transmission, and with the students one by...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Sewing Lessons

    • Sewing Lessons

    • Education; Teachers and students

    • This Peace Corps Volunteer is teaching a sewing class at Normal de Fatima. She teaches sewing, swimming and physical education in the Barranquilla area where she is assigned.
    • Agency Photos

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