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- Volunteer at home in Nairobi
- ACTION; Housing
- ACTION Peace Corps Volunteer is stationed in Nairobi, Kenya works at the Nairobi Medical Training Centre as a nurse. She is shown with her daughter at home.
- Agency Photos
- Volunteer working on range management in Kenya
- Disease; Housing
- ACTION Peace Corps Volunteer works in range management in Masailand, Kenya. He is helping the Masai to run their ranges and better manage their cattle, keeping them free from disease, etc.
- Agency Photos
- Shopping in Swahili
- Housing; Host community friends; Host community
- A Volunteer works as a Veterinary Officer for Baringo district in Kenya. She is sparsely furnished, has a number of Kenyan artifacts. She does her shopping, as shown here, in the local market in Swahili but her housekeeper does most of the cooking...
- Agency Photos
- Gardening in Kilibwoni
- Housing; Host community friends
- Volunteers work in the garden they planted behind their house in the village of Kilibwoni.
- Agency Photos
- Breakfast in Kilibwoni
- Housing; Host community friends; Host community
- A Volunteer has breakfast with other Volunteers in their house in Kilibwoni. One Volunteer teaches history and geograpghy in the harambee secondary school in Kilibwoni. The other teaches english in the same school. The Volunteer to the right works...
- Agency Photos
- Settlements in Kakamega
- Housing; Host community
- A Volunteer is an ag extension agent on settlements in the Kakamega District of Kenya. He works mostly in dairy and maize--also visits farmers and advises them on ways to improve their methods of raising maize, cattle feeding, and paddocking etc....
- Agency Photos
- 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
- Agriculture in the Peace Corps
- Agriculture
- Full-text of an early Peace Corps marketing brochure--copyright date is unknown but it appears to be from the 1960s.
- Brochures
- Lunch in Kilibwoni
- Housing; Host community friends
- Volunteers have lunch with each other at their house in Kilibwoni, Kenya. Two of them are teachers in the Harambee secondary school there and the other works in community development in a slum area outside Nairobi.
- Agency Photos
- American labor in the Peace Corps
- Full-text of an early Peace Corps marketing brochure--copyright date is unknown but it appears to be from the 1960s.
- Brochures
- Volunteer Makes a Fire
- Housing
- In the photo shown, a Volunteer starts a fire in a wood burning fireplace.
- Agency Photos
- Volunteer Does Laundry
- Housing
- Volunteer washes his laundry outside of his house in Morocco.
- Agency Photos
- Volunteer Writes
- Literacy; Housing
- Volunteer does some writing in the bedroom of his apartment.
- Agency Photos
- Volunteer in his Room
- Housing
- Volunteer is shown in his room in a Catholic Church, which rents to him and other Peace Corps Volunteers.
- Agency Photos
- 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
- Volunteer Discusses Development
- Architecture; Housing
- This Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Urbanism and Housing where he does preparation of master development plans throughout the Province of Meknes, which has about 30 villages ranging in size from about 1,000 to 40,000 inhabitants. In photo...
- Agency Photos
- Volunteer Discusses Plans with Locals
- Housing; Architecture
- This Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Urbanism and Housing where he does preparation of master development plans throughout the Province of Meknes, which has about 30 villages ranging in size from about 1,000 to 40,000 inhabitants.
- Agency Photos
- Volunteer Visits with Maid
- Housing
- This Volunteer works in Morocco as a teacher. She teaches English as a foreign language to Moroccan students at the high school level. In the photo shown, she visits with her maid.
- Agency Photos
- 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
- Health professions in the Peace Corps
- Doctors; Health; Nurses; Medicine
- Full-text of an early Peace Corps marketing brochure--copyright date is unknown but it appears to be from the 1960s.
- Brochures