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    • The Peace Corps staff physician: an adventure in medicine

    • The Peace Corps staff physician: an adventure in medicine

    • Marketing campaigns; Doctors; Medicine

    • Full text of a brochure aimed at recruiting medical doctors to serve as Peace Corps staff physicians. Discusses ways that Peace Corps doctors provided support to both Volunteers and host communities throughout the world. Although no exact date of...
    • Brochures
    • Four for the Peace Corps

    • Four for the Peace Corps

    • Marketing campaigns; Returned Volunteer services; Volunteer recruitment

    • Full text of a brochure highlighting four of the earliest Peace Corps Volunteers--what inspired them to join, what they encountered overseas and how their experiences have helped shape their lives after their Peace Corps service. Although no exact...
    • Brochures
    • Adobe Hut House

    • Adobe Hut House

    • Housing; Knight Foundation

    • This Volunteer and her husband live in the village of Chirapaca on Bolivia’s Altiplano (literally high plain with an altitude of 13,000 feet) in a three room adobe hut house that they have transformed into a model farmer’s house. October, 1968
    • Agency Photos
    • TB Control and Eradication

    • TB Control and Eradication

    • Health; Knight Foundation; Medicine

    • This Volunteer lives in the village of Arapata, Bolivia, in the semitropical area of the Yungas where she works with the people of her village and the surrounding villages on TB control and eradication. October, 1968
    • Agency Photos
    • You and the Peace Corps

    • You and the Peace Corps

    • Marketing campaigns; Volunteer recruitment

    • Full text of an early Peace Corps recruiting brochure. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure is likely from 1962.
    • Brochures
    • TB Control and Eradication

    • TB Control and Eradication

    • Health; Knight Foundation; Medicine

    • This Volunteer lives in the village of Arapata, Bolivia, in the semitropical area of the Yungas where she works with the people of her village and the surrounding villages on TB control and eradication. October, 1968
    • Agency Photos
    • Escondido Family Training Site

    • Escondido Family Training Site

    • 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...
    • Agency Photos
    • Teaching Welding

    • Teaching Welding

    • Knight Foundation; Life Skills; Education

    • This Volunteer teaches plumbing and welding in the Cenpritec Vocational Institute, and helps with the Sandra Smith School Partnership project. His wife is also a Volunteer in Bolivia teaching kindergarten at the Sandra Smith School. Here he is...
    • Agency Photos
    • Plumbing and Building

    • Plumbing and Building

    • Knight Foundation

    • This Volunteer teaches plumbing and building in the Cenpritec Vocational Institute and helps with the Sandra Smith School project. He is shown here with a little Bolivian boy assisting him. 1970
    • Agency Photos
    • The Peace Corps' role in food production

    • The Peace Corps' role in food production

    • Agriculture; Volunteer recruitment

    • Full text of a brochure highlighting Peace Corps programs and activities in the fields of agriculture, animal husbandry, horticulture, and forestry. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure is likely from 1969.
    • Brochures
    • Masonry Construction

    • Masonry Construction

    • Knight Foundation; Construction

    • This Volunteer teaches masonry construction at Cenpritec Vocational Institute in La Paz Bolivia and works on the Sandra Smith School Partnership Program. Prior to this he worked for 7 years in masonry. He is shown with counterparts laying bricks...
    • Agency Photos
    • Cooking

    • Cooking

    • Knight Foundation; Housing; Life skills

    • This Volunteer and her husband live in the village of Chirapaca on Bolivia’s Altiplano (literally high plain with an altitude of 13,000 feet) in a three room adobe hut house that they have transformed into a model farmer’s house. October, 1968
    • Agency Photos

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