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    • Comilla Outreach

    • Comilla Outreach

    • youth development; community development; health

    • Pinky, my student at the Department of Youth Development, is teaching a hygiene class in a poor part of Comilla. One part of our class involved a community outreach project.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Opening - A day for Celebrating!

    • Opening - A day for Celebrating!

    • Youth; Architecture; Libraries

    • This is my partner and I on the day of the long-awaited opening of our Youth Resource Center. The building had been a library in Soviet times. The town gave us the building, and we worked - with many youth volunteers and PCPP funds - to convert...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Free Hugs for Us Too

    • Free Hugs for Us Too

    • Youth

    • Most of the work in my village was centered with the local youth council. One day a year, on international youth day, they sponsored a village-wide "Free Hugs" event. This is some of the youth council members, with myself and my partner,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Creating Teaching Materials

    • Creating Teaching Materials

    • Literacy; Language Training

    • My assignment was as a manager of a print shop. We created flanograph pictures to teach women about the natal process and others to teach men about a cooperative project to grow peanuts. I spoke French to the Nigerien and English to the Nigerian,...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Earth Day

    • Earth Day

    • Environment;

    • April 2010 - Grenada. The students of New Life Organisation (NewLO) celebrating earth day by picking up trash, planting flowers around their school and creating musical instruments from recycled items
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Young Students

    • Young Students

    • Children; Education; Schools; Women in Peace Corps

    • Students attending school every morning or afternoon. School sponsored by local Association to Aid Youth of Jequie.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Don't Be a Litterbug!

    • Don't Be a Litterbug!

    • Celebrations; Environment

    • Peace Corps Volunteers partner with St. Kitts UNESCO each year during carnival celebration season to organize a "Carnival Clean-up Troupe." The troupe follows the carnival parade to clean up trash and raise awareness about environmental...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Drying Wool

    • Drying Wool

    • Animals; Work

    • In the northeastern area of Romania, I came across this woman drying freshly-shorn sheep's wool on her fence and in her courtyard.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Lamb on Donkey

    • Lamb on Donkey

    • Animals; Transportation

    • The sheep herders in the Bran area of rural Romania sometimes pick up and carry a lamb who is not keeping pace with the herd. This lamb got a ride on the herder's donkey.
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Crossing Bridge into Village

    • Crossing Bridge into Village

    • Water and sanitation; Community development

    • A group of Peace Corps Volunteers are pictured crossing a bridge, typical of those in the semi-tropical monsoon country of East Pakistan. The small river serves as bathing facility, sewage system, laundry area and source of water supply for the...
    • Agency Photos
    • Conversation in the General Store

    • Conversation in the General Store

    • Volunteers; Community development

    • While eating an ice cream, this Peace Corps Volunteer and the owner of the post office and general store talk about a coming meeting of the Hardburley Improvement Association.
    • Agency Photos
    • Peace Corps: the living legacy of John F. Kennedy

    • Peace Corps: the living legacy of John F. Kennedy

    • Volunteer recruitment; Wofford, Harris

    • Full text of a brochure featuring the recollections of several notable former Peace Corps staff members and Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, including Harris Wofford, Donna Shalala, Maureen Orth and others. Although no exact date of publication is...
    • Brochures

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