At the end of each of our teaching cycles the
basic training school would hold a celebration which consisted of a photograph, banquet, and entertainment. We Peace Corps Volunteers are seated with some of our students standing in Kurnool, Andhra...
Our Health Nutrition team taught at a Gram Sevika Basic Training School for young people who would become rural elementary teachers. One month we taught courses in health, nutrition, vegetable gardening, and making of a smokeless chula...
Our Health Nutrition team taught at a Gram Sevika Basic Training School for young people who would become rural elementary teachers. One month we taught courses in health, nutrition, vegetable gardening, and making of a smokeless chula...
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...
Some teachers retirea at the age of 60, but not these two, bound for Colombia. He was superintendent of education and she an elementary school teacher when they decided to resign, lease their ranch, sell the car, and join the Peace Corps. They are...
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...