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...
Bandundu area aquaculture volunteer supervisor Fred Marten feeding the fish at the Kikwit demonstration station in 1980. The material he is throwing into the water was probably chaf from a nearby rice mill.
Inland fisheries program in Sierra Leone was implemented by working with rural farmers to build ponds and raise Tilapia nilotica as a source of protein. A pond was constructed during training and a piece of bamboo was installed to serve as the...
Tilapia nilotica is the fish raised in the Inland Fisheries program in Sierra Leone. I took this photo while Skip DuFour, a fellow fisheries volunteer, held it for me following a pond harvest in early 1982.
Agriculture; Community development; Food and meals; Schools
I worked with 12 schools in Costa Rice from 1980 to 1982. This was at the school called San Francisco. The teacher and students were wonderful and worked hard on their vegetable garden.
For the Inland Fisheries Program in Sierra Leone, training took place at Makali Fish Station. A site was selected by the earlier group of fisheries volunteers and a pond was built by those volunteers and trainees and local residents of the country.
One of the places I helped build fish ponds was Idembe, a small village far off any main road, in southern Gabon. This picture was taken when I visited there with another Volunteer, Pat, and our new volunteer coordinator (whose name escapes me). ...
The school kids in Costa Rica, 1981, taught me the national dance of Costa Rica. Since I didn't have the dress, they taught me the guy's part - so I got to have a mustache. Then I taught them square dancing to John Denver's music.
In December 1981 during in-country training in Sierra Leone for the Inland Fisheries Program, trainees (including myself) contructed a fish pond with volunteers who had served before us and local Sierra Leoneans. This photo was taken as a bamboo...
While traveling to the southern part of Sierra Leone to experience marine fisheries harvesting, I went through the village of Sulima, pictured here. Homes and surrounding grounds were made of all natural materials and emaculately kept.
I had wanted to get an Islamic writing board to bring home and show American children what is used in Muslim schools in Sierra Leone to teach Arabic and learn passages from the Qur’an. No one was willing to part with theirs so I bought a new one...