Nurses; Medicine; Doctors; Disease; Health; Traditional medicine; Teachers and students; Work; Universities
A collection of letters written by Peace Corps Volunteers serving as community health nurses in Malaysia, Niger, Afghanistan, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), Turkey, Peru, Bolivia, India and Togo. No date is given, but the publication appears to...
Pre-service Training (PST); Knight Foundation; Children
Escondido Family Training Site. Children of first families to enter Peace Corps play in nursery at the Escondido Training Site. They’re learning Spanish in preparation for Bolivia by playing with Mexican American children from Escondido, and...
Press and media; Peace Corps Directors; Kennedy, John F.;
Full text of the March 4, 1961 White House press release announcing the appointment of Sargent Shriver as first Director of the Peace Corps. Also provides brief biographies of early Peace Corps staff members.
I took this photo in late 2007 outside of Amboro National Park in Bolivia. Josue (left) and Efrain are shooting footage for a video that was part of a set of multimedia lesson plans intended to teach U.S. middle and high school students about...
Shriver, Sargent; Peace Corps Directors; Kennedy, John F.-- Assassination; Budget; Community development
Full text transcript of the December 15, 1963 edition of the television program Meet the Press. Sargent Shriver was the featured guest and he discussed the challenges and accomplishments of the Peace Corps during its early years.