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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.
    • Agency Photos
    • 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...
    • Agency Photos
    • Arts and Crafts

    • Arts and Crafts

    • Volunteers; Education; Art

    • Two Peace Corps Volunteers helping to set up a crafts program and sheltered workshop at a residential hospital for the elderly and handicapped in Colombia, South America. She works primarily with a handicrafts program, and hopes to establish an...
    • Agency Photos
    • An English Lesson

    • An English Lesson

    • Volunteers; Education

    • A Peace Corps Volunteer teaches English in Caja Agraria, Bogota, Colombia where he is assigned. He also coordinates small businesses.
    • Agency Photos
    • 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...
    • Agency Photos
    • 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....
    • Agency Photos
    • 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...
    • Agency Photos
    • Co-op Business Plans

    • Co-op Business Plans

    • Volunteers

    • This Peace Corps Volunteer is a business consultant to consumer cooperatives. He is shown in the office of the assistant manager of the co-op in Colombia, checking plans for a new co-op building and reviewing recent charts.
    • Agency Photos
    • The Shoe Factory

    • The Shoe Factory

    • Volunteers

    • A Peace Corps Volunteer works in a shoe factory in Caja Agracia Bogota, Colombia. He is assigned as an industrial consultant to small business- Avical Student Arturo Ruge.
    • Agency Photos
    • Peace Corps: the living legacy of John F. Kennedy

    • Peace Corps: the living legacy of John F. Kennedy

    • Volunteer recruitment; Wofford, Harris

    • 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...
    • Brochures
    • 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...
    • Agency Photos
    • 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.
    • Agency Photos
    • 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...
    • Agency Photos

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