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- Young Women in Contrast
- Maternal and child health
- This is a picture of a Peace Corps trainee and a Liberian farmer in Zorzor, Lofa County, Liberia, West Africa. The African woman had her son at about the age of 14, is pregnant again, and briskly walks from her farm balancing 50 pounds on her...
- Volunteer Photos
- Women's Association Explaining How to Prevent HIV Transmission to Peers
- HIV/AIDS; Maternal and child health
- Members of my women's association explained to mothers how to talk with their children about preventing HIV transmission, destigmatizing seropositivity, and how to prevent unwanted pregnancies. The group of 25 women met to discuss how to teach...
- Volunteer Photos
- Weighing Babies for Maternal and Child Health 3
- Maternal and child health
- Each week at the local dispensary we have maternal and child health day where, moms bring in their infants and babies to be weighed, update immunizations, and make sure their baby is developing normally. This photo was taken of me at one of these...
- Volunteer Photos
- Weighing Babies for Maternal and Child Health 2
- Maternal and child health
- Each week at the local dispensary, we have maternal and child health day, where moms bring in their infants and babies to be weighed, update immunizations and make sure their baby is developing normally. This photo was taken of me at one of these...
- Volunteer Photos
- Weighing Babies for Maternal and Child Health
- Maternal and child health
- Each week at the local dispensary, we have maternal and child health day where moms bring in their infants and babies to be weighed, update immunizations and make sure their baby is developing normally. This photo was taken of me at one of these...
- Volunteer Photos
- Way of Life
- Maternal and child health
- Mpelembe, Serenje, Central Province, Zambia 2009 A woman carries a baby on her back while her brother looks on.
- Volunteer Photos
- Walking with my midwifery mentor
- Maternal and child health
- Aicha Boulmahuahib was the midwife at the local hospital at Ouled Berhill, Taroudant, Morocco where I lived for 2 years. The day I met her, we automatically started developing health workshops for women in the community. Also, I assisted her on...
- Volunteer Photos
- Village Child
- Children
- This picture was taken in 1971 while visitng a nearby village. Amazing that there was a place that had no running water, electricty or schools but yet the kids are the same as in any city no matter where in the world that they live.
- Volunteer Photos
- Vaccination in Guatemala
- Maternal and child health; Health; Terrain; Host community
- I took this picture in my site, Santa Barbara, Huehuetenango, which is a rural Mayan community in the western highlands of Guatemala Its a picture of a nurse I worked with getting ready to vaccinate a baby.
- Volunteer Photos
- Vaccination campaign in Cinkasse
- Maternal and child health; Health; Host community
- November 29, 2010. A mother holds tight as her baby receives an MMR vaccination during a campaign. You can see the nurse's hands. Many children came to the campaign with incomplete vaccination records.
- Volunteer Photos
- Under 5 Clinic
- Maternal and child health
- While serving in Zambia, I worked very closely with my clinic. Every friday I would spend all day weighing children under 5, so that the clinic could chart health growth and stop malnutrition.
- Volunteer Photos
- The Peace Corps in Chile, 1961 - 1968
- 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...
- Historical Papers and Articles
- Teaching Nutrition in the Village
- Teachers and students; Maternal and child health
- I am teaching nutrition - breastfeeding and weaning - to women and children in Bossangoa, Central African Rep., 1981, speaking in the Gbeya language. These lessons were done twice weekly.
- Volunteer Photos
- Spring Cleaning in Togo
- Maternal and child health; Water and sanitation
- Three year old girl getting a good washing in Kambole, Togo, 2005
- Volunteer Photos
- Special education summer camp
- Maternal and child health; Health; Host community; Volunteers
- This is a photo of me doing some stretching exercises with a child with cerebral palsy during a summer camp for children with disabilities that me and my host mother held in my site. This was work that was done through the parent support group that...
- Volunteer Photos
- Preventing Mother to Child Transmission of HIV
- HIV/AIDS
- This mother was one of the first women in my village to receive PMTC (Preventing Mother to Child Transmission) treatments. She is HIV positive and her baby Ausi Bonolo was born HIV negative. This photo was taken in the remote mountainous Thaba...
- Volunteer Photos
- Press release announcing appointment of Sargent Shriver as first Director of the Peace Corps, March 4, 1961
- 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.
- Press Briefings
- The Volunteer (February 1962)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of Vol. 1, No. 2 (February 1962) of The Volunteer: a newsletter by and for the Volunteers of the Peace Corps
- Newsletters
- The Volunteer (July 1962)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of Vol. 1, No. 7 (July 1962) of The Volunteer: a newsletter by and for the Volunteers of the Peace Corps
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (April 1968)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (April 1968).
- Newsletters