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    • 35 Year Reunion with My Students

    • 35 Year Reunion with My Students
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    • I returned to Thailand for a surprise reunion with my former students at a restaurant in Bangkok. I taught them English in the southern town of Pattalung in 1973. After so many years, I wondered what became of them and whether my teaching them made...
    • Staff Photos
    • Master Electrician

    • Master Electrician

    • Construction; Teachers and students

    • This ACTION Peace Corps Volunteer, a licensed master electrician, is giving of his time and talent to help others learn the skills involved in being an electrician. 1974
    • Agency Photos
    • Land Development

    • Land Development

    • Construction

    • Trucks remove timber from jungle in Jengka Triangle in the State of Pahand, West Malaysia. World Bank funds are assisting Malaysia’s first large-scale land settlement and development scheme, known as the Jengka Triangle Program. 1969
    • Agency Photos
    • Land Development

    • Land Development

    • Construction

    • Transplanting young oil palms into poly bags before later replanting in cleared jungle in the Jengka Triangle in the State of Pahang, West Malaysia. World Bank funds are assisting Malaysia’s first large-scale land settlement and development...
    • Agency Photos
    • School Construction

    • School Construction

    • Construction; Schools

    • The World Bank is providing funds to Malaysia to assist a school construction and expansion project which will provide over 10,000 new student places, of which the greater part will be in vocational, technical and agricultural schools. This will...
    • Agency Photos
    • School Construction

    • School Construction

    • Construction; Schools

    • The World Bank is providing funds to Malaysia to assist a school construction and expansion project which will provide over 10,000 new student places, of which the greater part will be in vocational, technical and agricultural schools. This will...
    • Agency Photos
    • Science Teacher

    • Science Teacher

    • Teachers and students

    • This Volunteer is serving as a modern mathematics and science teacher at the largest elementary school in Kota Bharu, Malaysia. She joined the Peace Corps at the age of 56, before which she taught at school in Louisiana, Texas and Chicago,...
    • Agency Photos
    • At the Market

    • At the Market

    • Markets

    • Here, the wife of the ACTION Peace Corps volunteer electrician shops at the local grocery store in Shah Alem, Malaysia. Her husband is serving as a lecturer in an electrical engineering school and is the technical advisor to the maintenance...
    • Agency Photos
    • Master Electrician

    • Master Electrician

    • Teachers and students; Construction

    • This ACTION Peace Corps Volunteer, a licensed master electrician, is giving of his time and talent to help others learn the skills involved in being an electrician. 1974
    • Agency Photos

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