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- Peace Corps Application, 1993
- Volunteer recruitment; Volunteer selection
- Full text of a 1993 Peace Corps application.
- Brochures
- Common Transport
- Transportation; Animals
- In rural Romania the "caruta" (pronounced kah-ROOT-suh) is the substitute for a truck or van.
- Volunteer Photos
- The Crushing Cost of Education
- Transportation
- This photo was taken in 2004 at the Botanical Gardens located in Roseau, Dominica. A parked school bus has been left undisturbed for decades after an adjacent tree had fallen on it and has since gained new use as a tourist attraction.
- Volunteer Photos
- Cordwood
- Transportation
- The train pulling this load would often have to back up and take multiple runs at the grade to make it out of Tarkwa to the coastal port of Takoradi.
- Volunteer Photos
- Kakheti Farmer
- Terrain; Transportation
- Visiting Peace Corps Volunteers in the east of Georgia, I took this picture on a lush, slightly cloudy spring afternoon. A farmer was driving his horse and wagon home through the low hills of the Caucasus.
- Volunteer Photos
- Bus Stop Woman
- Elders
- This woman was waiting at the bus stop in Bran, Romania when I snapped her photo.
- Volunteer Photos
- High school students and the Peace Corps
- Teachers and students
- Full-text of an early Peace Corps marketing brochure--copyright date is unknown but it appears to be from the 1960s.
- Brochures
- Remarks by Sargent Shriver before the 71st annual convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, June 26, 1962
- Shriver, Sargent; Women's movement
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's remarks before the 71st annual convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, held in Washington, DC on June 26, 1962.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- 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
- Meet the Press, December 15, 1963
- Shriver, Sargent; Peace Corps Directors; Kennedy, John F.-- Assassination; Budget; Community development
- Full text transcript of the December 15, 1963 edition of the television program Meet the Press. Sargent Shriver was the featured guest and he discussed the challenges and accomplishments of the Peace Corps during its early years.
- Press Briefings
- Remembering Sarge: One Year Later - A Conversation with Mark Shriver
- Shriver, Sargent
- Mark Shriver visits Peace Corps to pay tribute to his father and first director of the Peace Corps, the late Sargent Shriver, on the one-year anniversary of his passing in a speech to special guests and staff at Peace Corps headquarters.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Volunteer Talking to Villager in Ony Babre
- Rural sites; Education; Health; Community development
- This Volunteer works in Rural Community Development and health education in Ony Babre, Ivory Coast. Here, the Volunteer talks with an Ivorian. She learned to speak french (the official language of this former French colony) during her Peace Corps...
- Agency Photos
- Volunteer Teaches Ony Babre Women Sewing
- Rural sites; Community development; Health; Education
- This Volunteer works in a Rural Community development and health education in Ony Babre, Ivory Coast. Here the Volunteer teaches Ony Babre women sewing.
- Agency Photos
- Volunteer Education Women in Ony Babre
- Rural sites; Community development; Education; Health
- This Voluntter works in a rural community development and health education in Ony Babre, Ivory Coast. Here the Volunteer teaches a literacy class. She is trying to teach the women to count enough French so that they can deal in the Gagnoa market...
- Agency Photos
- Peace Corps National Conference of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
- Returned Volunteer Services
- 25th Anniversary of: The Peace Corps National Conference of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers & Staff September 20, 1986. Washington, D.C.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Volunteer Weigh in an Ivorien Child
- Nurses; Children; Health; Education; Rural sites; Community development
- This Volunteer works in a Rural Community development and health education in Ony Babre, Ivory Coast. Here the Volunteer and her co-worker help weigh in an Ivorien child at the health classes the Peace Corps has established in Ony Babre. In Africa...
- Agency Photos
- Volunteer Helps Weigh in a Child
- Nurses; Children; Health; Education; Community development
- This Volunteer works in a rural community development and health education in Ony Babre, Ivory Coast. Here the Volunteer and her co-worker help weigh in an Ivorian child at the health classes the Peace Corps has established in Ony Babre. In Africa,...
- Agency Photos
- RPCV Featured in Annual Report
- Notable RPCVs; Community development
- This former Peace Corps Volunteer is featured in the recently released Peace Corps Sixth Annual Report to Congress. The Volunteer, who taught school in Sierra Leone, credits the Peace Corps with making his sense of social consciousness “more...
- Agency Photos
- Peace Corps Times (Issue 1, 2010)
- Newsletters--2010s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Times (Issue 1, 2010)
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Times (Partnership Edition, 2012)
- Newsletters--2010s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Times (Partnership Edition, 2012)
- Newsletters