Peace Corps

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    • Volunteers in Training

    • Volunteers in Training

    • Volunteers; Pre-service Training (PST)

    • Some teachers retirea at the age of 60, but not these two, bound for Colombia. He was superintendent of education and she an elementary school teacher when they decided to resign, lease their ranch, sell the car, and join the Peace Corps. They are...
    • Agency Photos
    • Breakfast Time

    • Breakfast Time

    • Volunteers

    • A Peace Corps Volunteer cooks breakfast in her cabin in the Tayrona National Park, on the northern coast of Colombia, where she and her husband live. She is assigned to Santa Marta, Colombia, working with bird mist nets, making bird specimens for...
    • 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
    • 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
    • Co-op Business Plans

    • Co-op Business Plans

    • Volunteers

    • This Peace Corps Volunteer is a business consultant to consumer cooperatives. He is shown in the office of the assistant manager of the co-op in Colombia, checking plans for a new co-op building and reviewing recent charts.
    • Agency Photos
    • The Shoe Factory

    • The Shoe Factory

    • Volunteers

    • A Peace Corps Volunteer works in a shoe factory in Caja Agracia Bogota, Colombia. He is assigned as an industrial consultant to small business- Avical Student Arturo Ruge.
    • Agency Photos
    • An English Lesson

    • An English Lesson

    • Volunteers; Education

    • A Peace Corps Volunteer teaches English in Caja Agraria, Bogota, Colombia where he is assigned. He also coordinates small businesses.
    • Agency Photos
    • Arts and Crafts

    • Arts and Crafts

    • Volunteers; Education; Art

    • Two Peace Corps Volunteers helping to set up a crafts program and sheltered workshop at a residential hospital for the elderly and handicapped in Colombia, South America. She works primarily with a handicrafts program, and hopes to establish an...
    • Agency 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.
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    • Sewing Lessons

    • Sewing Lessons

    • Education; Teachers and students

    • This Volunteer teaches sewing, swimming, and physical education in the Barranquilla area. here she is teaching a sewing class.
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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
    • Fishing Methods

    • Fishing Methods

    • Fishing; Agriculture

    • The Volunteer works at the Institute of Tropical Fish Culture in Buga where he helps determine the best methods of doing fish culture for the poor farmers.
    • Agency Photos

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