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- Teaching: education lays the foundation for human and economic development
- Marketing campaigns; Volunteer recruitment; Education
- Full text of a brochure highlighting Peace Corps programs and activities in the field of education. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure is likely from 1969.
- Brochures
- Training: language, skill and service--the education of a Volunteer
- Marketing campaigns; Volunteer recruitment; Training sites; Technical training
- Full text of a brochure that discusses Peace Corps' approach to training and how it evolved over the first decade of the agency's history. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure is likely from 1969.
- Brochures
- Remarks by Sargent Shriver at the commencement exercises, Kansas State University, June 3, 1962
- Shriver, Sargent; Peace Corps Directors; Universities
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's commencement address at Kansas State University on June 3, 1962.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Statement by Sargent Shriver before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, June 22, 1961
- Cross-cultural transition; Volunteer selection;
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's June 22, 1961 statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Agriculture: the fight to feed a hungry world
- Marketing campaigns; Agriculture; Volunteer recruitment
- Full text of a brochure highlighting Peace Corps programs and activities in the field of agriculture. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure is likely from 1969.
- Brochures
- The Peace Corps staff physician: an adventure in medicine
- Marketing campaigns; Doctors; Medicine
- Full text of a brochure aimed at recruiting medical doctors to serve as Peace Corps staff physicians. Discusses ways that Peace Corps doctors provided support to both Volunteers and host communities throughout the world. Although no exact date of...
- Brochures
- Women in the Peace Corps: you can't send a girl there!
- Marketing campaigns; Volunteer recruitment; Women in Peace Corps
- Full text of a brochure highlighting the unique challenges faced by women in the early years of the Peace Corps, as well as their many accomplishments around the world. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure is likely from...
- Brochures
- 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
- 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...
- Agency Photos
- Peace Corps: one part of ACTION
- Marketing campaigns; ACTION
- Full text of a brochure highlighting Peace Corps programs and activities and how Peace Corps fit in to the newly formed federal agency ACTION, which was established on July 1, 1971. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure is...
- Brochures
- 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.
- Agency Photos
- 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.
- Agency Photos
- Poor Homes on the Shore of the Pacific Ocean
- I took this photo on the Pacific shore of Tumaco, Nariño, Colombia in 1966. These are stilt homes of poor African-Colombians in the town. They have no toilets and other common domestic utilities/conveniences.
- Staff Photos
- Teachers in the Peace Corps
- Marketing campaigns; Education; Teachers and students; Volunteer recruitment
- Full text of a brochure highlighting Peace Corps teaching opportunities available to education majors and liberal arts graduates. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure is likely from the mid-1960s.
- Brochures
- Home Economics
- Teachers and students
- A Peace Corps Volunteer teaches home economics at the Instituto Mariano in Pasto, Colombia, where she is assigned.
- Agency Photos
- Girl on the Street
- Host community friends
- I took this photo in the town of La Cruz, Narino, Colombia in 1966. Seeing and talking to this girl in my town, I thought I should take a snap of her. Amid rural poverty and hardship, this girl just radiated happiness and well-being.
- Staff Photos
- Speech at the National Conference on Religion and Race, January 15, 1963
- Shriver, Sargent; Peace Corps Directors; Diversity; Religion
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's speech at the National Conference on Religion and Race held in Chicago, Illinois, January 15, 1963.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Staff Education
- Education
- A Peace Corps Volunteer works as a staff education coordinator in Bogota.
- Agency Photos
- Lunch Preparations
- Food and meals
- Two married Peace Corps Volunteers fix lunch in their kitchen in Buga, Colombia.
- Agency Photos
- 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