Peace Corps Volunteer is serving in Leboudon, Mauritania working with village and school gardening, nutrition education, and building fuel efficient stoves.
A Volunteer involved in gardening and agro-forestry, joins a former Volunteer in Mali in a trip to her island village of Issafaye. Here she works collectively with the nutritional seeds.
This Volunteer is involved in gardening and agro-forestry. She joins a former Volunteer in Mali in a trip to her island village of Issafaye. In this photo, she works collectively with the nutritional seeds.
This Volunteer is working in Sikasso, Mali. Assigned to the Ministry of Production, he uses his precious experience on potato farms to demonstrate new advanced methods of farming. Now involved with a vegetable production program, he is helping to...
This Volunteer, a mechanical engineer, works on the design and construction of simple agricultural machines in Bo. Here, he is shown demonstrating a thresher. April, 1976
This Volunteer supervises and instructs farmers in the construction of dikes and irrigation canals in a swamp or low river bottom area. Taking some time from his assigned duties, he is shown climbing a palm tree for coconuts.
I and other fisheries Volunteers were able to view Silver back Mountain Gorillas at Virunga National Park after language training and before starting our volunteer projects.
The Congo/Zaire River is in the background. I was visiting Kinshasa and Zaire for the first week when this photo was taken. The fisheries program director had birds that talked (African Greys) and great view of the river. 1980
This picture was taken in the village of Solulu in the Maradi state of Niger in 2010. I saw this woman in market, so I'm not sure of her name but I loved the Obama shirt. Most Nigerien's LOVED Obama. There were tons of things for sale with his...
I worked with the Mpika Catholic church to distribute 1000 nets in my area. In this picture, we see villagers of Daubti opening up the first box received. Mid-2010.
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.
More and more of ACTION’s Peace Corps Volunteer training is shifting from the U.S. to the host-countries. The photo shows a coastal training site in Mombasa for trainees who will be serving in Kenya.