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    • Volunteer Works with Therapy Programs

    • Volunteer Works with Therapy Programs

    • Health; Medicine; Youth development

    • This Volunteer is the administrative director at Boyer Chesire Foundation. There, he devises exercise therapy programs for the physically handicapped children, plus other administrative duties.
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    • Hospital Center for Maternal and Child Health

    • Hospital Center for Maternal and Child Health

    • Knight Foundation; Health; Medicine; Maternal and child health

    • This Volunteer works at the Yako hospital center for maternal and child health care and directs mobile PMI teams that provide health surveillance in surrounding villages. Children found to be suffering from malnutrition are brought to the hospital...
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    • Animal Husbandry

    • Animal Husbandry

    • Knight Foundation; Agriculture; Medicine

    • This Volunteer is a technical consultant in animal husbandry for the organization for Rural Development. Here, he and a village worker, vaccinate a chicken against chlorea and Newcastle’s disease. 1980
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    • TB Control and Eradication

    • TB Control and Eradication

    • Health; Knight Foundation; Medicine

    • This Volunteer lives in the village of Arapata, Bolivia, in the semitropical area of the Yungas where she works with the people of her village and the surrounding villages on TB control and eradication. October, 1968
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    • TB Control and Eradication

    • TB Control and Eradication

    • Health; Knight Foundation; Medicine

    • This Volunteer lives in the village of Arapata, Bolivia, in the semitropical area of the Yungas where she works with the people of her village and the surrounding villages on TB control and eradication. October, 1968
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    • Medical Technician

    • Medical Technician

    • Knight Foundation; Medicine; Animals; Health

    • This Volunteer is a medical technician assigned to the Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory. She is helping conduct microbiology and leptospirosis studies. Leptospirosis is a micro-organism that causes a disease commonly known as black jaundice;...
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    • Instructing Student Nurses

    • Instructing Student Nurses

    • Knight Foundation; Hospitals; Health; Medicine

    • This Volunteer instructs student nurses in patient care at the Salmaniya Hospital in Manama, capital of Bahrain. She is a clinical nursing instructor at the Yosuf Kanoo School of Nursing which is affiliated with the hospital. She supervises the...
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    • Instruction Student Nurses

    • Instruction Student Nurses

    • Medicine; Hospitals; Knight Foundation; Education; Health

    • This Volunteer instructs student nurses in patient care at the Salmaniya Hospital in Manama, capital of Bahrain. Mrs. McLeod is a clinical nursing instructor at the Yosuf Kanoo School of Nursing which is affiliated with the hospital. She supervises...
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    • Training Student Nurses

    • Training Student Nurses

    • Knight Foundation; Hospitals; Health; Medicine

    • This Volunteer trains Bahraini student nurses in emergency procedures in the emergency room of the Salmaniya Hospital. April, 1977
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    • Training Student Nurses

    • Training Student Nurses

    • Knight Foundation; Hospitals; Education; Health; Medicine

    • This Volunteer trains Bahraini student nurses in emergency procedures in the emergency room of the Salmaniya Hospital. April, 1977
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    • Child Care

    • Child Care

    • Medicine; Nurses; Maternal and child health

    • The Peace Corps staff nurse provides medical support to Volunteers in her region of Sierra Leone. Here she discusses child care with another Volunteer and local mothers. 1968
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    • Medical Support

    • Medical Support

    • Medicine; Nurses

    • The Peace Corps staff nurse provides medical support to Volunteers in her region of Sierra Leone. She and another Volunteer talk with women about using a drying table for their dishes, rather than drying them on the ground. 1968
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    • Teaching Medical Students

    • Teaching Medical Students

    • Education; Medicine

    • A volunteer, who teaches two English classes a day to 200 medical students at the Nangrahar University Medical School in Jalalabad, Afghanistan, shops at the market place. March 1973.
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