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    • Peace Corps Volunteer Who Couldn’t Come Home

    • Peace Corps Volunteer Who Couldn’t Come Home

    • Children; Education; Host community

    • This following Volunteer holds the record for Peace Corps service as a Volunteer, having served six years and four months in Iran. The normal tour of duty is two years. He is now a recrcuiter for the Peace Corps on the West Coast, was responsible...
    • Examining a Child With Marasmus

    • Examining a Child With Marasmus

    • Health; Training; Children

    • An ACTION/Peace Corps Volunteer is in charge of the entire UNICEF operations for Mauritania is shown examining a child suffering from marasmus-- a severe form of malnutrition. He is responsible for administering over $1 million in UNICEF funds to...
    • Volunteer Eats a Meal with his Family

    • Volunteer Eats a Meal with his Family

    • Food and meals; Children

    • Volunteer is assigned in Rabat, Morocco to the Ministry of Youth and Sports to consult on centers for juvenile delinquents. Here you see him and his family at supper in their combination living and dining room in their apartment in Rabat.
    • MLI PC 1313 1985 P42

    • MLI PC 1313 1985 P42

    • Host community friends; Children

    • This Peace Corps Volunteer is assigned to Sibila. In this photo, she is shown talking with Mahowa Trarore and her children, with whom she shares the family compound and her meals.
    • Developing a Garden with School Children

    • Developing a Garden with School Children

    • Gardens; Children

    • This Peace Corps Volunteer works in community development in Dioro. Here he joins school children and their headmaster in the school gardens of the Ecole Fundamental. A previous volunteer helped construct the garden well.
    • Rural Development Volunteer

    • Rural Development Volunteer

    • Agriculture; Children; Water and sanitation

    • This Volunteer works in rural development and secondary projects including forestry. He explains the importance of “live fencing” to school children at a garden project.
    • Hospital Psychiatrico

    • Hospital Psychiatrico

    • Education; Children; Mental health

    • This Volunteer works as an occupational therapist at Hospital Psychiatrico Manuel Endara M. in Conocoto. She helps the patients, most of whom are children, to overcome physical disabilities and develop their perceptual motor skills.
    • Raising Rabbits

    • Raising Rabbits

    • Agriculture; Animals; Children; Nurses

    • Peace Corps volunteer Eileen Sullivan of Cohasset, Mass., is raising rabbits and growing alfalfa in the small community of Tugualo, Ecuador. Previously, she spent one year as a volunteer nurse in the community of Latucunga, Ecuador, Here, Eileen...
    • Research Program

    • Research Program

    • Children; Health

    • A Peace Corps Volunteer talks to mothers in Barranquilla, Colombia, as part of a research program to determine the effectiveness of the CARE school lunch program and how it might be improved.
    • Escondido Family Training Site

    • Escondido Family Training Site

    • Pre-service Training (PST); Knight Foundation; Children

    • Escondido Family Training Site. Children of first families to enter Peace Corps play in nursery at the Escondido Training Site. They’re learning Spanish in preparation for Bolivia by playing with Mexican American children from Escondido, and...
    • Early Childhood Eduation Specialist

    • Early Childhood Eduation Specialist

    • Knight Foundation; Education; Children

    • This Volunteer is a specialist in early childhood education. She is assigned to the Nutrition Center at a Bridgetown hospital and is very much involved in daycare activities. She visits all daycare centers and children’s homes (18 in all); she is...

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