This is a photo of me reading "The Three Little Pigs" in English to Punjabi and Hindi speaking pre-schoolers. In our village of Nilokheri, Haryana, INDIA, the community wanted an English/Pubjabi/Hindi Speaking Nursery School for their...
This photo is of Usha, a young girl in the town who assisted me in the Nursery School, and myself. We spent many hours together as friends and teaching young children. Nilokheri, Haryana, INDIA. Fall 1966.
This photo was taken on May 20, 2009 at the independence day celebrations in Lagdo, Cameroon. I had been working with this small parent's school located in an Mbororo village near where I was living. The Mbororo are traditionally nomadic...
Agriculture; Community development; Food and meals; Schools
I worked with 12 schools in Costa Rice from 1980 to 1982. This was at the school called San Francisco. The teacher and students were wonderful and worked hard on their vegetable garden.
This photo was taken on April 20, 2012 at an HIV/AIDS awareness presentation put on by a school in Ukraine. The photo shows a world map puzzle created by students at this school as a reminder that the HIV/AIDS epidemic is worldwide, and as such,...
At my primary school in Burkina Faso, I collaborated with the teachers to teach the oldest grade level about the myths and the truth about HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, and stigma. In the photo students are reading a hand-out before we began the...
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.
A history of the Peace Corps in Chile, prepared on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the US Peace Corps, for distribution at the reunion of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers who served in Chile, hosted by the Embassy of Chile in Washington DC...