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- Round One
- Peace Corps Directors; Vaughn, Jack
- Full text of Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn's May 4, 1966 speech entitled 'Round One' given at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. Vaughn discusses his impressions of Peace Corps after three years as the agency's Director, and...
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Building a School
- Schools; Construction
- A Volunteer is shown building a school near the town of Riyo Hizo, a small village on the Ethiopian frontier. He is a full-time school constructor in Somalia.
- Agency Photos
- Building a School
- Schools; Construction
- A Volunteer is shown building a school near the town of Riyo Hizo, a small village on the Ethiopian frontier. He is a full-time school constructor in Somalia.
- Agency Photos
- Annual Roosevelt memorial day address delivered by Sargent Shriver, May 30, 1963
- Shriver, Sargent; Cross-cultural transition
- Full text of the Annual Roosevelt memorial day address delivered by Sargent Shriver, May 30, 1963.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Remarks by Sargent Shriver at the commencement exercises, Kansas State University, June 3, 1962
- Shriver, Sargent; Peace Corps Directors; Universities
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's commencement address at Kansas State University on June 3, 1962.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Physical education in the Peace Corps
- Sports; Games; Health
- Full-text of an early Peace Corps marketing brochure--copyright date is unknown but it appears to be from the 1960s.
- Brochures
- Master Electrician
- Teachers and students; Construction
- This ACTION Peace Corps Volunteer, a licensed master electrician, is giving of his time and talent to help others learn the skills involved in being an electrician. 1974
- Agency Photos
- Master Electrician
- Teachers and students; Construction
- This ACTION Peace Corps Volunteer, a licensed master electrician, is giving of his time and talent to help others learn the skills involved in being an electrician. 1974
- Agency Photos
- Master Electrician
- Teachers and students; Construction
- This ACTION Peace Corps Volunteer, a licensed master electrician, is giving of his time and talent to help others learn the skills involved in being an electrician. 1974
- Agency Photos
- Master Electrician
- Teachers and students; Construction
- This ACTION Peace Corps Volunteer, a licensed master electrician, is giving of his time and talent to help others learn the skills involved in being an electrician. 1974
- Agency Photos
- Constructing Methane Gas Generators
- Technology; Environment; Construction
- This Peace Corps Volunteer constructs methane gas generators around the cities of Loja and Saraguro. During the past two years, he has constructed three such generators, each being a huge success. Here, he works with Ecuadorians to install storage...
- Agency Photos
- Methane Gas Generators
- Technology; Environment; Construction
- This Peace Corps Volunteer constructs methane gas generators around the cities of Loja and Saraguro. During the past two years, he has constructed three such generators, each being a huge success. Here, he works with Ecuadorians to install storage...
- Agency Photos
- Volunteers Work to Prevent Erosion
- terrain; construction
- These Volunteers work as a team to improve the living conditions of the cliffside village of Everi. Everi, a village high above the Dogon Plateau, currently collects the water it needs by descending 800 feet and carrying jugs back up the cliffside....
- Agency Photos
- Mobile Workshop
- Transportation; Construction
- Mobile workshop
- Agency Photos
- Peace Corps Application, 1993
- Volunteer recruitment; Volunteer selection
- Full text of a 1993 Peace Corps application.
- Brochures
- Installing Hand Pumps
- Water and sanitation; Construction
- This Volunteer and his Moroccan co-workers install and maintain hand pumps for water wells in the province of Quarzazat.
- Agency Photos
- Volunteer Examines Pump
- Water and sanitation; construction
- A Volunteer involved in gardening and agro-forestry, joins a former Volunteer in Mali in a trip to her island village of Issafaye. In the photo, they examine an old wheel-barrow pump, which they will repair to use as a hand pump to irrigate rice...
- Agency Photos
- Volunteer Examines Pump
- Water and sanitation; construction
- A Volunteer involved in gardening and agro-forestry, joins a former Volunteer in Mali in a trip to her island village of Issafaye. In the photo, they examine an old wheel-barrow pump, which they will repair to use as a hand pump to irrigate rice...
- Agency Photos
- Volunteer Works to Construct Wells
- water and sanitation; construction
- This Volunteer works with a team, which includes a gardener and a forester, to construct village wells in Baka-Were. In this photo, he and the village gardener examine a garden well being constructed with “dutch bricks”, a design developed by a...
- 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