I took this photo while biking on the road from my home in Spaldings, Jamaica to my work at Knox Community College. The photo evokes the scents and sounds of rural Jamaica to me.
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...
Peace Corps Volunteers partner with St. Kitts UNESCO each year during carnival celebration season to organize a "Carnival Clean-up Troupe." The troupe follows the carnival parade to clean up trash and raise awareness about environmental...
April 2010 - Grenada.
The students of New Life Organisation (NewLO) celebrating earth day by picking up trash, planting flowers around their school and creating musical instruments from recycled items
this is a photo taken on April 25, 2010 in Macedonia. There are students from the local high school that volunteered their time on a weekend to help pick up trash in a local park in honor of Earth day.
One of the first meetings of a new Aprilci Craftsmens Guild in the Tourist Office, with a Volunteer, Marcella Crider, crafts persons, and the Director of the Tourist Bureau, Doncho Pachnikov (Notice that the heat was not on that day).
Children; Education; Work; Schools; Teachers and students;
This is the first World Map Project Map in what was to become a standard Peace Corps activity worldwide. It is in the school in Hondo Valle, Dominican Republic. Volunteer Barbara Jo White is working with two high school students on the map. It was...
This is an aerial view of a lagoon in the wildlife reserve I worked to manage with my counterpart organization. This photo was taken during a monitoring and evaluation overflight.
This is a photo of a wetland in the wildlife reserve I helped manage--a home for flocks of birds and large fish. The characteristics of the wetlands varied by season: during some parts of the year, the entire area in this photo would be flooded; at...
Cedar boils the modified leghold traps in herbs, along with our clothing and shoes, at the farmhouse in the village of Sadovic in western Bulgaria. With members of Balkani Wildlife Society, the next day we set the trapline and checked it twice a...
Mopti, Mali taken on August 07, 2008. I was giving a Moringa presentation as a part of a technical exchange with another Volunteer. The women at this center all had or were recovering from obstetric fistula.
In the summer of 1972, I was inventorying the Middle Atlas cedar forests which included hiking to this remote village where we spent several nights. The two on the right of the picture are “city folk” whom I had brought with me from Rabat,...
Work; Women in Peace Corps; Education; Girls' education; Environment
I took this photo on the north coast of Jamaica of students from my "Environmental Awareness" class at Knox Community College. This is was the first time most of them had ever been to the ocean or beach. I took them tidepooling and swimming. To get...