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- Health work: a crucial struggle to control disease in developing nations
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Marketing campaigns; Health; Volunteer recruitment; Medicine; Nurses -
Full text of a brochure highlighting Peace Corps programs and activities in the field of health work. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure is likely from 1969. - Brochures
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- Act like a tree!
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Agriculture; Teachers and students -
This photo was taken after some students helped me plant new fruit trees on their school compound. Hopefully when these trees yield fruit the kids can eat it at lunch instead of chips! The students loved helping me and were shocked that I let... - Volunteer Photos
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- Action Update (December 20, 1979)
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Newsletters--1970s -
Full text of the Action Update (December 20, 1979). - Newsletters
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- Action Update (January 15, 1981)
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Newsletters--1980s -
Full text of the Action Update (January 15, 1981). - Newsletters
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- AIDS Free Generation through Education
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HIV/AIDS -
This photo is original work of the Girls' Club of Uukwiyuushona Combined School, Namibia from 28 June 2012. Thirty female learners ages 14-20 collaborated ideas and were given a camera to capture them. As learners in grades either 9 or 10, they... - Volunteer Photos
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- AIDS-Free Generation is in Reach
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HIV/AIDS -
This photo is original work of the Girls' Club of Uukwiyuushona Combined School, Namibia from 28 June 2012. Thirty female learners ages 14-20 collaborated ideas and were given a camera to capture them. As learners in grades either 9 or 10, they... - Volunteer Photos
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- APCD Antonio Dacak Playing Guitar
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Music -
In 1990 we had a combined Agriculture and Beekeeping In-service Training. After spending hours and hours learning about green manure and water filtration ditches, all in Spanish, highly technical and delivered by the Dean of the Agricultural... - Volunteer Photos
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- Aregua 2 Training Class, Paraguay
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Our training group had just arrived in country in June, 1989, and our first stop was Ykua Sati, a retreat center just outside of Asuncion, where we spent a few nights for orientation, language testing and lots of shots by the Peace Corps Medical... - Volunteer Photos
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- Best Wishes!
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Weddings; Youth -
My students held up a message for me to photograph. It wished my brother and his wife good luck in their marriage. The children loved being photographed and having a different activity then their normal drill. It took many tries. - Volunteer Photos
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- Christmas Dinner
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Animals; Host families -
On Christmas Eve, 2004, I was planning a traditional dinner with my Salvadoran family. They were bartering with the door to door hen saleswoman over the price of the hen in the picture. The asking price was $6, the family wanted to pay $4, and I... - Volunteer Photos
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- Cuisnahuat's Senior Citizen Group
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Elders; Celebrations -
During my service I helped the local clinic form a group for senior citizens. We met monthly to discuss health issues. Since many of these seniors walked for miles through the mountains to get to the meetings we always had something to eat and a... - Volunteer Photos
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- Despedida at Site
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Celebrations; Food and meals -
In December, 1991 as I was finishing up my time with Peace Corps my friends in my community (San Miguel, Pastoreo) did a really nice farewell. After feasting on pollo asado, sopa paraguaya, and Coke mixed with beer (yum), there was music and... - Volunteer Photos
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- Don Rodolfo and David
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Elders; Children; Host community -
This picture was taken in the weeks leading up to my COS conference. The gentleman pictured is Don Rodolfo, who was my landlord for the beginning of my service. His daughter Betty was a close friend of mine and the bay he is holding is her son,... - Volunteer Photos
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- Exhausted Volunteers at a party & not phased by the standing cooked chickens
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Host families; Celebrations -
This picture was taken of my fellow East Timor Volunteers and myseld in 2004 at a party hosted by one Volunteer's family. They asked us to sit at the head of the table as honored guests, then the ladies of the village brought out these skinny... - Volunteer Photos
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- Fiestas Patronales
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Celebrations; Dance; Traditional dress -
Every November the Catholic church in Cuisnahuat celebrates the Fiesta of San Lucas. Cuisnahuat is a traditional town where they still do dances with hand-carved masks to act out the story of San Lucas. These dancers are all me from the town and... - Volunteer Photos
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- Friendship Bracelet Making at a GLOW Camp
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Camps and clubs; Youth development -
During a Girls Leading Our World (GLOW) Camp in September 2011, Volunteer Allison provides pointers about friendship bracelet-making to a camper. In addition to the friendship bracelet activity, the camp included workshops on citizen participation,... - Volunteer Photos
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- Hauling Water
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Water and sanitation -
When I arrived back in Cuisnahuat three years after COSing we all joked that I blew into town with the "norte," the cool north wind felt in the region in December and January. Unfortunately for all of us, said "norte" blew down powerlines all over... - Volunteer Photos
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- Host Mom, My Moto, and Me
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Transportation; Host families -
I remember the excitement when I learned that I was going to get a motorcycle to help me do my extension work. Peace Corps provided us with one week of training with a US certified motorcycle instructor, and a shiny red Suzuki 100 dirt bike. Here... - Volunteer Photos
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- Learning to Weave
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Crafts -
This was taken in September 2010. Ese is teaching me to weave a mat. She was somewhat patient, but pushed me to learn quickly. I gave these mats as a gift when I returned home. - Volunteer Photos
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- Making Pellets for the Slingshot
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Games; Children; Host families -
It always amazed me how good the kids were at entertaining themselves with what seemed like nothing, for hours on end. In this photo from 1991, my host brother Victor is making clay pellets with his cousin. They would scoop up clay soil,... - Volunteer Photos
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