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 works with two cooperatives near the northern Colombian port city of Barranquilla. One is an agriculture marketing co-op, the other an artisan co-op where, as shown here, the Volunteer helps the women with designs and with marketing....
During my pre-service training (June 2007) I visited a site in Hato Chami, Panama. Here the local artisans are showing us how to weave strings to make bags.
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...