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- My Peace Corps ID
- Old ID Card
- Volunteer Photos
- Agriculture in the Peace Corps
- Agriculture
- Full-text of an early Peace Corps marketing brochure--copyright date is unknown but it appears to be from the 1960s.
- Brochures
- Communal Plowing with Foot Plows
- Agriculture
- This photo shows men preparing a field for planting potatos using foot plows. This was in 1969 in the Community of Pampaconga, Peru, where I provided assistance with a Peruvian Ministry of Agriculture counterpart.
- Volunteer Photos
- Raising Chickens
- agriculture; animals
- I am checking on our young chickens as part of our in-country training in the summer of 1966. We built the coops and raised the chickens from chicks.
- Volunteer Photos
- Cleaning Chickens
- agriculture; animals
- This was part of our in-country training when we cleaned all of our chickens. Later we had a BBQ! Summer 1966.
- Volunteer Photos
- Eating with the Chickens
- Agriculture; Animals
- Dale Stanton in India during his Peace Corps service.
- Volunteer Photos
- A Road for Thoro Ghoat
- Agriculture; Animals
- Volunteer Stories
- A Peace Corps Volunteer's Adventures: Guinea I, 1963-65
- Agriculture; Pets; Culture shock and adaptation; Religion
- Volunteer Stories
- Heifer Animal Recipient and Me
- Animals
- Taken in the Cochabamba, Bolivia area in late 1964, where I worked as field agent with Heifer Project and was charged with distribution of imported animals.
- Volunteer Photos
- Unloading Animal Shipment in Santa Cruz, Bolivia
- Animals
- Animals were flown in from the USA to St. Cruz where they were acclimated, inoculated, and distributed in cooperation with a ten agency Comite Heifer to area residents. 1965
- Volunteer Photos
- Walking in village
- Animals; Agriculture; Host community
- Agriculture Volunteer Dale E. Stanton in India during his service with the poultry industry.
- Volunteer Photos
- Manuela Condori shearing her sheep
- animals; host community friends
- The Aymara of the Bolivian Altiplano are often considered to be dour and unsmiling. Nothing further from the truth, as can be seen by Dona Manuela ready to have a try at shearing one of her sheep with hand shears. Instructing people in the local...
- Volunteer Photos
- Working with Cooperatives
- Agriculture; Artisans
- This Volunteer works with two cooperatives near the northern Colombian port city of Barranquilla. One is an agriculture marketing co-op, the other an artisan co-op where, as shown here, the Volunteer helps the women with designs and with marketing....
- Agency Photos
- Sue with Girls at the Day Camp
- Camps and clubs; Teachers and students
- Sue is sitting on the front steps of our house in Kerend, Iran with the girls in the day camp she led. July 1970.
- Volunteer Photos
- Tuareg Camel Riders
- Celebrations; Animals
- The Tuareg camel riders completed the 1967 Independence Day Parade in Niger. The Tuareg are the desert people of Northern Niger. The camels are sensitive to humidity and are limited to desert conditions. This is about 15.3 degrees latitude, the...
- Volunteer Photos
- Viva Bolivia!
- Celebrations; children
- Flag-waving, music, marching and declamations are mandatory for any official event in Bolivia. Often, as in the case of this event, the inauguration of the new teachers' living quarters in the town of Comanche, all the school kids participate....
- Volunteer Photos
- Awards
- Ceremonies; Agriculture
- This photo was taken in Jabalpur, MP, India in 1969. Indian farmers received numerous awards for thier outstanding agriculture and poultry farms. I was thier friend, poultry outreach worker and camera owner. They were very pleased with the ceremony...
- Volunteer Photos
- Great Smile
- children
- This photo was taken in the market of a young friendly boy. He was trying to figure out who these tall strange looking foreigners were.
- Volunteer Photos
- Friends and Neighbors
- children
- Three girls that were neighbors but they were friends with each other. One was a Hindu, one was Muslim and one a Christian. The little boy was a younger brother of the first girl. Despite their religious differences they always hung out together.
- Volunteer Photos
- David Griggs andWith
- children; environment
- Forestry Peace Corps Volunteer David Griggs happened upon a neglected Indian reservation of the Ache/Guaiyaki in the forests of eastern Paraguay in April 1971. This first encounter led to my service working with the Ache/Gaiyaki. Ultimately, Peace...
- Volunteer Photos