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.
Full text of Sargent Shriver's briefing to the press held on March 6, 1961. Shriver introduced members of the original Peace Corps task force, and fielded topics on a range of questions about the initial plans for how the Peace Corps would operate.
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...
This Peace Corps Volunteer works as a hospital administrator for the only hospital in the San Blas Islands off the coast of Panama. As the hospital is very short staffed, she does everything from keeping records to giving x-rays. She also runs a...
A Volunteer is shown in front of his home in Matunwa, Kenya, where he is an advisor to a local farming cooperative. Only the area immediately behind the door is his; the space at right is the village store. The motorcycle serves as his...
This ACTION Peace Corps Volunteer working in Nairobi, Kenya is a staff Physician at the Medical Training Center. He also acts as an advisor to area health programs. He is pictured here with his little girl at home.
This Peace Corps Volunteer is working on the Kenyan coast in Klifi to provide adequate drinking water for a resettlement area. He is organizing the construction of a large rural water supply. There are 135 individuals working under his direction....
Peace Corps National Advisory Council member, former Olympic Decathalon Champion, holds sports instruction clinics for Kenyan coaches in Nairobi. Himself and Olympic Decathalon team member Dr. Tom Waddell visited five countries where Peace Corps...
Volunteer teaches English as a foreign language to students at the high school level in Morocco. In the photo shown, she takes a car ride with friends of her maid.
Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Agriculture where he serves as chief mechanic in the ministry shop. He will develop proper maintenance programs and increase the efficiency in the shop’s operations. In the photo shown, he tests an...
This Volunteer works to improve water management in a Tamashek camp on an island in the Niger River Delta. She is shown helping villagers unload supplies, which she will use to construct three wells in her village. They will transport these...
A Volunteer involved in gardening and agro-forestry, joins a former Volunteer and current Program Development Consultant for AFSI, in Mali in a trip to her island village of Issafaye. In this photo, they travel in a canoe to her island village in...
A Volunteer involved in gardening and agro-forestry, joins a former Volunteer in Mali in a trip to her island village of Issafaye. In this picture they transport rice to Issafaye, a Bozo fishing village where the fish population has been declining.