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- Children in Mali
- Youth; Host community; Housing
- Mali
- Agency Photos
- futbol
- Traditional dress; Children; housing; Games
- I love introducing my children to friends I made when serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Guatemala. In this photo my son Alberto is playing soccer with Enrique Reynoso, the son of a friend I met during community base training in Santa Cruz del...
- Volunteer Photos
- Walkway
- Housing
- This photo was taken in fall 2010 during my site visit to Cambodia. This picture shows the space between the wall of my bedroom and the floor.
- Volunteer Photos
- Our Porcelain Goddess
- Housing
- After two years of service, Youth Development Volunteer Lauren Warchol knows to bring her own toilet paper to this bathroom in the government funded Social Services Center where she works in Ukraine. Not much more than a hole in the ground, but at...
- Volunteer Photos
- At the Edge of Tranquility
- Terrain
- This is a sunset view overlooking a small village of Cristest during the summer of 2004 as I was visiting one of my Romanian colleagues’ home in Moldova region. This scene shows a typical rural landscape found in Northeastern part of Romania. ...
- Volunteer Photos
- Rangers at Dinner
- Environment
- After a long day of tracking wolves, rangers (and Volunteer C.A. Woulfe) have a dinner of bread and rakia in a forestry unit building without water or electricity in the Central Balkan National Park.
- Volunteer Photos
- Washing Machine
- Work; Housing
- This picture was taken by my sister Karen when she came to visit me in Nicaragua in 2001. I got to wash our clothes by hand on the pila, a concrete washboard and sink. This was a source of great amusement and connection with my grandmother who...
- Volunteer Photos
- Building a New Home
- Host community; Housing
- This is a photo of Alphonse, the business adminstrator of the artisans' cooperative, with whom I worked very closely during my time in Mora. He save enough money to build a new house, with the help of family and friends in the village of...
- Volunteer Photos
- Women in the Peace Corps
- Women's movement
- Speech prepared for delivery before the annual luncheon, YWCA Board of Directors, October 18, 1961, Waldorf, Astoria, New York City. Women in the Peace Corps by Sargent Shriver.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Women in the Peace Corps
- Women in Peace Corps
- Full-text of an early Peace Corps marketing brochure--copyright date is unknown but it appears to be from the 1960s.
- Brochures
- Women in the Peace Corps
- Women in Peace Corps
- Full-text of an early Peace Corps marketing brochure--copyright date is unknown but it appears to be from the 1960s.
- Brochures
- 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
- Leisure Reading
- Volunteers; Housing
- A Volunteer reads a book while relaxing at his residence.
- Agency Photos
- Making a world of difference: the toughest job you'll ever love
- Volunteer recruitment
- Full text of a 1997 recruiting brochure.
- Brochures
- Peace Corps leader proposes massive volunteer program to help solve U.S. domestic problems
- Vaughn, Jack; Peace Corps Directors; Volunteerism; VISTA
- This February 13, 1968 press release outlines Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn's suggestions for increasing domestic volunteerism in the United States.
- Press Briefings
- Where the Heck is Helena?
- Transportation; Housing
- Traveling by taxi from the capital of Guyana, Georgetown, to my new site in New Amsterdam, I flew by this road sign. Helena?? That's my hometown in Montana! It's pointing in the right direction, but I reckon it's a village here. I don't recall...
- Volunteer Photos
- High school students and the Peace Corps
- Teachers and students
- Full-text of an early Peace Corps marketing brochure--copyright date is unknown but it appears to be from the 1960s.
- Brochures
- Physical education in the Peace Corps
- Sports; Games; Health
- Full-text of an early Peace Corps marketing brochure--copyright date is unknown but it appears to be from the 1960s.
- Brochures
- Remarks by Sargent Shriver at Peace Corps' fourth anniversary assembly, September 22, 1965
- Shriver, Sargent; Volunteerism; Vietnam war
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's remarks at Peace Corps' fourth anniversary assembly, State Department, September 22, 1965.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Speech by Sargent Shriver before the Commonwealth Club of California, October 11, 1963
- Shriver, Sargent; Peace Corps Directors; Business development
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's speech before the Commonwealth Club of California, October 11, 1963.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters