This Peace Corps Volunteer is assigned to Sibila. In this photo, she is shown talking with Mahowa Trarore and her children, with whom she shares the family compound and her meals.
This Peace Corps Volunteer works in community development in Dioro. Here he joins school children and their headmaster in the school gardens of the Ecole Fundamental. A previous volunteer helped construct the garden well.
This Volunteer works in rural development and secondary projects including forestry. He explains the importance of “live fencing” to school children at a garden project.
This Volunteer works as an occupational therapist at Hospital Psychiatrico Manuel Endara M. in Conocoto. She helps the patients, most of whom are children, to overcome physical disabilities and develop their perceptual motor skills.
Peace Corps volunteer Eileen Sullivan of Cohasset, Mass., is raising rabbits and growing alfalfa in the small community of Tugualo, Ecuador. Previously, she spent one year as a volunteer nurse in the community of Latucunga, Ecuador, Here, Eileen...
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.
Pre-service Training (PST); Knight Foundation; Children
Escondido Family Training Site. Children of first families to enter Peace Corps play in nursery at the Escondido Training Site. They’re learning Spanish in preparation for Bolivia by playing with Mexican American children from Escondido, and...
This Volunteer is a specialist in early childhood education. She is assigned to the Nutrition Center at a Bridgetown hospital and is very much involved in daycare activities. She visits all daycare centers and children’s homes (18 in all); she is...
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...
This Volunteer plays pick-up sticks with village children on the porch of her house in Telu, near Bo, Sierra Leone. She works in a program similar to Head Start for pre-school and young children. January, 1968
Nurses; Children; Health; Education; Community development
This Volunteer works in a rural community development and health education in Ony Babre, Ivory Coast. Here the Volunteer and her co-worker help weigh in an Ivorian child at the health classes the Peace Corps has established in Ony Babre. In Africa,...
This Volunteer works in pediatric nursing in Daloa, Ivory Coast. The Volunteer prepares food and medicine for the three babies now living in the Daloa clinic. The main job of the clinic is treating undernourished children.