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    • Red Cross School for the Deaf

    • Red Cross School for the Deaf

    • Health; Education

    • This Volunteer is assigned to the Red Cross School for the Deaf in St. John’s, the capital of Antigua. She has classes five days a week and works mainly with the 3 to 6 year olds. Using mostly sign language since lip reading is harder for them to...
    • Agency Photos
    • Crafts Advisor

    • Crafts Advisor

    • Knight Foundation; Business development

    • This Volunteer is a crafts advisor in St. Johns, Antigua. Working under the Ministry of Finance, Industry and Tourism, he is helping to develop ceramic skills and a budding crafts industry. 1976
    • Agency Photos
    • Antigua Training Centre for the Mentally Retarded

    • Antigua Training Centre for the Mentally Retarded

    • Knight Foundation; Education

    • This Volunteer is assigned to the Antigua Training Centre for the Mentally Retarded, which is jointly under the Ministry of education and the Association for the mentally Retarded. Here, she plays with a pre-schoolers. Her previous experience...
    • Agency Photos
    • Crafts Advisor

    • Crafts Advisor

    • Business development; Knight Foundation

    • This Volunteer is a crafts advisor in St. Johns, Antigua. Working under the Ministry of Finance, Industry and Tourism, he is helping to develop ceramic skills and a budding crafts industry. His base of operations is the Arawak Crafts Center, which...
    • Agency Photos
    • Industrial Arts Teacher

    • Industrial Arts Teacher

    • Knight Foundation; Artisans; Crafts; Business development

    • This Volunteer teaches industrial arts at Jennings Secondary School in Antigua. He will complete his third year of Peace Corps service in May, 1976. He teaches shop four days a week and Spanish three days a week.
    • Agency Photos
    • Industrial Arts Teacher

    • Industrial Arts Teacher

    • Knight Foundation; Artisans; Crafts; Business development

    • This Volunteer teaches industrial arts at Jennings Secondary School in Antigua. He will complete his third year of Peace Corps service in May, 1976. He teaches shop four days a week and Spanish three days a week.
    • Agency Photos
    • Red Cross School for the Deaf

    • Red Cross School for the Deaf

    • Knight Foundation; Health; Education

    • This Volunteer is assigned to the Red Cross School for the Deaf in St. John’s, capital of Antigua. She has classes five days a week and works mainly with the 3 to 6 year olds. 1976
    • Agency Photos
    • Agricultural Engineer in Antigua

    • Agricultural Engineer in Antigua

    • Agriculture; Knight Foundation

    • This Volunteer is an agricultural engineer working specifically in the area of soil and water conservation. In the photo shown, he is helping to assemble the new food processing unit at the headquarters of the Department of Agriculture in Antigua....
    • Agency Photos
    • Community Development Worker

    • Community Development Worker

    • Community development; Knight Foundation

    • This Volunteer is a community development worker helping villagers in Antigua to raise their standards of living. She is presently working on the extension of a community senter in the village. Here, she is helping a worker to stack concrete blocks...
    • Agency Photos
    • Community Development Worker

    • Community Development Worker

    • Community development; Knight Foundation

    • This Volunteer is a community development worker helping villagers in Antigua to raise their standards of living. She is presently working on the extension of a community senter in the village. Here, she is helping a worker to stack concrete blocks...
    • Agency Photos
    • Antigua Training Centre for the Mentally Retarded

    • Antigua Training Centre for the Mentally Retarded

    • Knight Foundation; Education

    • This Volunteer is assigned to the Antigua Training Centre for the Mentally Retarded, which is jointly under the Ministry of education and the Association for the mentally Retarded. Here, she plays with a pre-schoolers. Her previous experience...
    • Agency Photos
    • Agricultural Engineer in Antigua

    • Agricultural Engineer in Antigua

    • Agriculture; Knight Foundation

    • This Volunteer is an agricultural engineer working specifically in the area of soil and water conservation. In the photo shown, he is helping to assemble the new food processing unit at the headquarters of the Department of Agriculture in Antigua....
    • Agency Photos
    • Laundry Time

    • Laundry Time

    • Life skills

    • Taken in 1990. I worked as a nurse on the island of Antigua, West Indies. I handwashed my white uniforms by first soaking them in soapy bleach water in a 5-gallon bucket overnight before scrubbing them by hand, then placing them in another...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Planting a Garden in the Village

    • Planting a Garden in the Village

    • Gardens

    • Taken in 1990. Here I am planting a garden in my backyard with a village girl, Lois (who is a grown woman now). With the dry desert climate of the island of Antigua, West Indies, this turned out to be a challenging project and ultimately did not...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • Writing in my Journal

    • Writing in my Journal

    • Housing

    • This photo was taken in 1990. Sitting at my dining table, I wrote in my journal daily during my Peace Corps service in Antigua, West Indies. On the wall above me is a map of the Eastern Caribbean where I called home at this time in my life. On...
    • Volunteer Photos
    • First Day in my New Village and Home

    • First Day in my New Village and Home

    • Housing; Children; Transportation

    • May 1989. Crabb Hill Village, Antigua, West Indies (Eastern Caribbean) My husband took this photo. All of the children came out to see the new Volunteers who just moved into the village. They were very excited, and we were happy for the warm...
    • Volunteer Photos

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