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- Water is Life!- Agua es Vida!
- Host community friends; Construction; Water and sanitation
- This photo was taken Aug. 29th, 2007 in Carata Peru. It includes me (center in red shirt) after working with locals to install a new concrete reservoir which would provide potable water to the community. The renovation of the system coincided with...
- Volunteer Photos
- Vocational Training Buildings: BEFORE and AFTER!
- Children; Construction
- On the left, the boys show the area just before groundbreaking on one of four vocational training buildings. On the right, one of the first photos of the new shops ready to be filled with tools, equipment, and young minds and hands.
- Volunteer Photos
- Martín Finishes the Chimney
- Construction; site; terrain
- I took this photo while assisting a neighbor, Martín (pictured), in the installation of a new improved cook stove in his home, perched high atop a hill. We spent the entire morning installing the stove, which would allow the family to cook...
- Volunteer Photos
- Head Teacher, Coordinating Center Tutor and storm-damaged classroom block
- Host community friends; Construction; Education
- I served at the IT/ICT department at Bulera Core Primary Teacher's College, Hoima. Though the lab had very good equipment, there was not enough of them: Just 10 client stations for 400 students! Photo: Left: Mrs. Rhoda Kyasiima - Head Teacher,...
- Volunteer Photos
- Carpentry and Joinery Class
- Construction; site; Children
- Peace Corps Volunteer Cale Reeves works with co-teacher, Gaui, and Carpentry and Joinery students to construct a wooden table using advanced joinery and woodworking techniques. Laumua o Punaoa, Faleula, Samoa. 2008.
- Volunteer Photos
- Carpentry and Joinery Class
- Host community friends; Construction; Volunteers
- First year students at the Laumua o Punaoa Technical College in Faleula, Samoa proudly display their handiwork with instructor and Peace Corps Volunteer Cale Reeves. 2008.
- Volunteer Photos
- Top Well Apron in Zamblala
- Construction; Water and sanitation
- Pamela Cruz working with her counterpart, Samuel Dembele, to finish a top well apron in her village of Zamblala.
- Volunteer Photos
- John S. Noffsinger & the Global Impact of the Thomasite Experience
- This paper explores the life of a teacher, John S. Noffsinger, who arrived in Manila in either late May or early June 1910, and taught for two years in Bayombong, Nueva Viscaya.
- Historical Papers and Articles
- A Towering Task (February 1, 1961 draft)
- Wiggins, Warren
- Full-text of the February 1, 1961 draft of Warren Wiggins' essay 'The Towering Task.' This essay discusses the early history of the concept of the Peace Corps and outlines Wiggins' suggestions for implementing Peace Corps at a starting level of...
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Round One
- Peace Corps Directors; Vaughn, Jack
- Full text of Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn's May 4, 1966 speech entitled 'Round One' given at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. Vaughn discusses his impressions of Peace Corps after three years as the agency's Director, and...
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Remarks by Sargent Shriver at the commencement exercises, Kansas State University, June 3, 1962
- Shriver, Sargent; Peace Corps Directors; Universities
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's commencement address at Kansas State University on June 3, 1962.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Annual Roosevelt memorial day address delivered by Sargent Shriver, May 30, 1963
- Shriver, Sargent; Cross-cultural transition
- Full text of the Annual Roosevelt memorial day address delivered by Sargent Shriver, May 30, 1963.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Peace Corps Congressional Presentation, Fiscal Year 1971
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 1971.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Peace Corps Fiscal Year 1981 Budget Estimate
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 1981.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Peace Corps Congressional Budget Presentation, Fiscal Year 1999
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 1999.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Peace Corps Congressional Budget Presentation, Fiscal Year 2000
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 2000.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification, Fiscal Year 2004
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 2004.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Presidential Messge to Congress Recommending Establishment of Peace Corps, 1961
- Kennedy, John F.
- President Kennedy's message to Congress recommending the establishment of a permanent Peace Corps. H. Doc. 98, 87th Congress, March 1, 1961.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Who's who in the Peace Corps--Washington
- Directories
- Full text of Who's Who in the Peace Corps--Washington, which includes staff bios of many of the founding staff members of the Peace Corps. Approximate date of publication is 1963.
- Brochures
- Community development opportunities for junior college graduates in the Peace Corps
- Community development
- Full-text of an early Peace Corps marketing brochure--copyright date is unknown but it appears to be from the 1960s.
- Brochures