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    • Teaching English to Professionals

    • Teaching English to Professionals

    • Teachers and students

    • A Volunteer teaches English to the professionals of SENA (National Agricultural Learning Center). Part of the purpose is to aid them in reading technical manuals for American equipment that are only written in English. She is also trying to develop...
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    • Research Program

    • Research Program

    • Children; Health

    • A Peace Corps Volunteer talks to mothers in Barranquilla, Colombia, as part of a research program to determine the effectiveness of the CARE school lunch program and how it might be improved.
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    • Girls' Education

    • Girls' Education

    • Girls' education; Health; Teachers and students

    • A Peace Corps Volunteer teaches female hygiene at a commercial school in Ibague, Colombia, to a group of girls of various ages.
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    • Home Economics

    • Home Economics

    • Teachers and students

    • A Peace Corps Volunteer teaches home economics at the Instituto Mariano in Pasto, Colombia, where she is assigned.
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    • Driving Lessons

    • Driving Lessons

    • Training; Training groups; Transportation

    • A driving instructor waits patiently whily one of his pupils figures out how to get out of the chuckhole that she has just driven into. The women are PCV Colombia trainees. This was taken near Taos.
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    • Sewing Lessons

    • Sewing Lessons

    • Teachers and students

    • A Peace Corps Volunteer working at the Rehabilitation Center for the Blind in Bogota, Colombia. She is working with a patient who uses macramé as a source of income.
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    • Collaborations for Project

    • Collaborations for Project

    • Volunteers

    • A Peace Corps Volunteer works with the Foundation for the Investigation of Human Ecology in Cali, Colombia. She conducts classes for the mothers of preschoolers who are taking part in a pilot project in a poor barrio of the city. Here, she chats...
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    • An Afternoon Walk

    • An Afternoon Walk

    • Teachers and students; Terrain; Host community

    • A Peace Corps Volunteer is shown walking the streets of Barrio Pinzon with one of his students, a soldier whom he teaches in an auto construction program and in building construction classes. He is an instructor in auto construction, plumbing and...
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    • Studies on Birds

    • Studies on Birds

    • Wildlife

    • A Peace Corps Volunteer holds a small specimen while his wife Sherry takes down the mist net. He is assigned to Santa Marta where he is doing various research studies on birds.
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    • Language Training

    • Language Training

    • Training; Training sites; Language training

    • This language teacher is working with a new language saturation technique (LST) which teaches a Volunteer to speak a foreign language in four weeks nearly as well as many language majors do after four years of college. She is a Spanish language...
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    • Family Walk

    • Family Walk

    • Volunteers

    • This Peace Corps Volunteer is an instructor in auto construction, plumbing and related subjects at the SENA (government teaching organization) program in the area of Villa Pinzon in Ibague. His wife works part-time as a female hygiene instructor....
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    • Volunteers in Training

    • Volunteers in Training

    • Volunteers; Pre-service Training (PST)

    • Some teachers retirea at the age of 60, but not these two, bound for Colombia. He was superintendent of education and she an elementary school teacher when they decided to resign, lease their ranch, sell the car, and join the Peace Corps. They are...
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    • Breakfast Time

    • Breakfast Time

    • Volunteers

    • A Peace Corps Volunteer cooks breakfast in her cabin in the Tayrona National Park, on the northern coast of Colombia, where she and her husband live. She is assigned to Santa Marta, Colombia, working with bird mist nets, making bird specimens for...
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    • Playtime

    • Playtime

    • Children; Host community friends

    • A Peace Corps Volunteer at home in Harranquilla with her children and some of their neighborhood friends. She is assigned in Colombia teaching children aged 5-10 reading, writing and arithmetic, having previously worked for CARE, going from house...
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