A Community WORTH group was meeting in the lowveld of Swaziland in Feburary of 2012. WORTH groups consist of 20-30 women who meet to discuss HIV issues and work on micro finance. When women are able to pull together and succeed, the OVC in that...
A few of the kids who helped design and paint the mural at our primary school posed for a picture during the process. The photo was taken in January 2012 in the village of Bissighin in Burkina Faso.
This photograph was taken of me while painting the hand of a student/neighbor to make an HIV/AIDS poster. The poster was used in the central clinic, elementary school, and high school while I promoted HIV/AID awareness and precautions. The final...
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.
Full text of Sargent Shriver's briefing to the press held on March 6, 1961. Shriver introduced members of the original Peace Corps task force, and fielded topics on a range of questions about the initial plans for how the Peace Corps would operate.
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...
This Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Health as a social welfare worker, where she bathes and feeds children at a day care center for malnourished children.
This Volunteer is a natural resources educator under the ministry of Agriculture. She teaches school children the care and preservation of forests as an important resource.
This Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Health as a social welfare worker, where she bathes and feeds children at a day care center for malnourished children.
This Volunteer is a natural resources educator under the ministry of Agriculture. She teaches school children the care and preservation of forests as an important resource.
This Volunteer works in a nutrition center in Mella Dominican Republic, where malnourished children are fed and their mothers are taught nutrition and health care.