Full text of Sargent Shriver's remarks before the 71st annual convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, held in Washington, DC on June 26, 1962.
Each 4th of July Peace Corps Mongolia hosts a basketball tournament with a team of trainees playing a team of currenlty serving Volunteers and staff. In 2006, a closely fought battle came down to the wire before the Staff/Volunteer team escaped...
Full text of a brochure featuring the recollections of several notable former Peace Corps staff members and Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, including Harris Wofford, Donna Shalala, Maureen Orth and others. Although no exact date of publication is...
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...
Speech prepared for delivery before the annual luncheon, YWCA Board of Directors,
October 18, 1961, Waldorf, Astoria, New York City.
Women in the Peace Corps
by Sargent Shriver.
In the photo, I was teaching two of my host sisters, Samira and Hafsa, about how in America we make wishes on dandelions. We live in the Sahara desert but near an Oasis. Here the children know every plant, herb and even weed that grows. They always...
This photo was taken on 19/07/2011, in a small village in the Rhodope Moutains, which is home to a minority population of Bulgarian Muslims and is a rural and poor area. These students are my 5th-8th grade summer school students who have just begun...
I took this photo during an HIV/AIDS prevention session at the Kingston YMCA in Kingston, Jamaica on April 23, 2012. This picture shows a group of boys raising their hand to true or false statements related to HIV/AIDS prevention.
I took this photo in Ben Guerir, Morocco during the first annual candlelight memorial to remember victims of HIV/AIDS in May 2007. The event was the result of a participatory planning process. The picture illustrates the excitement and solidarity...
This photo was taken by another Peace Corps volunteer in my region during an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign in Ben Guerir, Morocco in May 2006. The campaign brought a mobile testing unit to the youth center and included a community awareness march by...
This photo was taken by another Peace Corps volunteer in my region during an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign in Ben Guerir, Morocco in May 2006. The campaign brought a mobile testing unit to the youth center and included a community awareness march by...
This photo was taken by another Peace Corps volunteer in my region during an HIV/AIDS awareness campaign in Ben Guerir, Morocco in May 2006. The campaign brought a mobile testing unit to the youth center and included a community awareness march by...
I took this photo in Ben Guerir, Morocco as we prepared to begin the first annual candlelight memorial to remember victims of HIV/AIDS in May 2007. My students are lighting their candles as they prepare to walk out into the courtyard. They are...