Full text of Sargent Shriver's remarks before the 71st annual convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, held in Washington, DC on June 26, 1962.
A Volunteer works as a Veterinary Officer for Baringo district in Kenya. Shown here with the Settlement Officer. He comments on her, “She does everything. She is doing a good job, very good, very good.”
An ACTION/ Peace Corps Volunteer talks with an Iranian specialist with whom he works in setting up a basic aquatic biology laboratory. The laboratory, which began operation in the summer of 1974 is located at Bandare Pahlavi on the Caspian Sea. His...
I took this picture of my Coordinator, Natalya, upon my arrival in L'viv, Urkaine in May 2005. I was assigned to work with Natalya at the Institute of Non-Profit Management at the Ukrainian Catholic University.
Vaughn, Jack; Peace Corps Directors; Volunteerism; VISTA
This February 13, 1968 press release outlines Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn's suggestions for increasing domestic volunteerism in the United States.
Full text of a brochure featuring the recollections of several notable former Peace Corps staff members and Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, including Harris Wofford, Donna Shalala, Maureen Orth and others. Although no exact date of publication is...
Full-text of the February 1, 1961 draft of Warren Wiggins' essay 'The Towering Task.' This essay discusses the early history of the concept of the Peace Corps and outlines Wiggins' suggestions for implementing Peace Corps at a starting level of...
Speech prepared for delivery before the annual luncheon, YWCA Board of Directors,
October 18, 1961, Waldorf, Astoria, New York City.
Women in the Peace Corps
by Sargent Shriver.
Dominique organized a pottery exchange between master potters from her home in Nebraska and master potters in her village of service in Amizmiz, Morocco. This is a photo of Dominique giving her demonstration during this two-day event in 2008.
This is a photo of the most talented basket weaver of the Artisan's Cooperative of Mayo-Ouldeme in Northern Cameroon. I worked closely with this coop group to get established and run a shop selling the wares of all the artisans in the village.
This is a photo of Alphonse, the business adminstrator of the artisans' cooperative, with whom I worked very closely during my time in Mora. He save enough money to build a new house, with the help of family and friends in the village of...
Teachers and students; Information and Communication Technologies (ICT)
During 2001 and 2002 I taught computer classes to high school children in my town in Eastern Honduras. We studied the basics of Microsoft Word and Excel.