A history of the Peace Corps in Chile, prepared on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the US Peace Corps, for distribution at the reunion of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers who served in Chile, hosted by the Embassy of Chile in Washington DC...
This Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Health as a social welfare worker, where she bathes and feeds children at a day care center for malnourished children.
This Volunteer is a natural resources educator under the ministry of Agriculture. She teaches school children the care and preservation of forests as an important resource.
This Volunteer is a farm advisor to small farmers and local cooperatives near Rio Dario. He has helped them make for expanding their irrigation system, visits their fields and advises on planting and control of irrigated fields and inspects the...
This Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Health as a social welfare worker, where she bathes and feeds children at a day care center for malnourished children.
This Volunteer is a community development social worker with the FUNDE- Savings & Loan Cooperative program where she surveys all water resources in order to improve supply and guarantee source year- found for town. Here she talks with community...
This Volunteer is an artisan advisor and crafts teacher with Cooperative Chiscolapa in a new project to raise sisal (“kaboya”) for twinning and sewing into artful carpets using pre-Columbia Nicaraguan designs. Here the Volunteer works with...
This Volunteer is working with the Rural Electrification program in Nicaragua. Here he is shown riding a horse as he goes from village to village surveying the needs of the area in order to plan for power distribution lines. He passes poles...
This Volunteer is working with the Rural Electrification cooperative. Here he is shown explaining electrification to a few villagers collected on the main road near Tonala.
This Volunteer is working with the Rural Electrification program in Nicaragua. Here he is shown riding a horse as he goes from village to village surveying the needs of the area in order to plan for power distribution lines. He passes poles...
This Volunteer is a natural resources educator under the ministry of Agriculture. She teaches school children the care and preservation of forests as an important resource.
This Volunteer is a natural resources educator under the ministry of Agriculture. She teaches school children the care and preservation of forests as an important resource.
CoThis Volunteer is a technical advisor to small farmers and grain research expert. He meets up with a representative of the Ministry of Health, and heads of villages in a valley near La Trinidad to discuss improvement of sanitation at village...
A carpenter on his way home from work carrying his new power saw that he is now able to use since the installation of electricity by the Peace Corps’ Rural Electrification program.
This Volunteer is a volunteer nurse at San Juan de Dios Hospital in Esteli where she teaches nursing to 25 girls who, following their two month training course, will become assistant nurses at the hospital. Here the Volunteer instructs one of her...