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    • Visiting Friends

    • Visiting Friends

    • Host community friends; Secondary projects

    • This Volunteer visits with folks along the way on his walk to his village of Tankhuwa. In addition to his primary assignment, he has developed a number of important secondary projects. Among them are distributing new and improved grain types,...
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    • Visiting Friends

    • Visiting Friends

    • Host community friends; Secondary projects

    • This Volunteer visits with folks along the way on his walk to his village of Tankhuwa. His assignment is as an English teacher. In addition he has developed a number of important secondary projects. Among them are distributing new and improved...
    • Agency Photos
    • Urban Planner

    • Urban Planner

    • Community development

    • This Volunteer serves as an urban planner in Pokhara, Nepal. She works with Krishna Panday to plan a botanical garden in the tourist area of Pokhara.
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    • Urban Planner

    • Urban Planner

    • Community development

    • This Volunteer serves as an urban planner in Pokhara, Nepal. She works with Krishna Panday to plan a botanical garden in the tourist area of Pokhara.
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    • Demonstrating a Sewing Skill

    • Demonstrating a Sewing Skill

    • Life skills; Community development

    • Peace Corps Volunteer Elsie Honkala is a community development worker in the remote village of Polugollegama, Ceylon, and surrounding villages. She serves as medical advisor and works with the community encouraging such activities as sewing circles...
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    • Administering a Vaccine

    • Administering a Vaccine

    • Life skills; Community development; Medicine

    • This Volunteer is a community development worker in the remote village of Polugollegama, Ceylon, and surrounding villages. She serves as medical advisor and works with the community encouraging such activities as sewing circles and the planting of...
    • Agency Photos
    • Bridge Building

    • Bridge Building

    • Architecture; Community development

    • This Volunteer is based in the capital city of Basseterre where he works on drainage problems, roads, a housing development, and a bridge for the Central Housing and Planning Authority. Building this bridge has been a major project. The bridge,...
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    • Cooking Hut

    • Cooking Hut

    • Housing; Host Community

    • A Volunteer stands before the cooking hut attatched to his small home in the village of Matunwa, Kenya. He advises a farming cooperative in the village in Kenya’s western Kisii region.
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    • Department of Fisheries

    • Department of Fisheries

    • Business development; Host community

    • A Volunteer is assigned to the Department of Fisheries under the Ministry of Tourism and Wildlife to study the distribution, migratory patterns, breeding and behavior cycles of the spiney lobster off Lamu, an island on the north coast of Kenya.
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    • Mentally Handicap School in Nairobi

    • Mentally Handicap School in Nairobi

    • Youth development; Host community

    • A Volunteer is assigned to the Jacaranda School in Nairobi, Kenya. The school is for mentally handicapped and retarded. It is located in the suburbs 20 minutes by bus from town. She works with nursery age, mentally and physically handicapped...
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    • Child Welfare and Farms in Machakos

    • Child Welfare and Farms in Machakos

    • Youth development; Business development; Host community

    • A Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Social Services working on child welfare in Machakos, a town of 20,000 residents. Another Volunteer is assigned to the government farm cooperative of Machakos as administrative advisor.
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    • Installing Tractor Treads

    • Installing Tractor Treads

    • Training; Host community

    • A Volunteer teaches his Kenyan students how to repair heavy construction machinery by doing it himself. Here, he shows his students how to install tractor treads.
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    • Shopping in Swahili

    • Shopping in Swahili

    • Housing; Host community friends; Host community

    • A Volunteer works as a Veterinary Officer for Baringo district in Kenya. She is sparsely furnished, has a number of Kenyan artifacts. She does her shopping, as shown here, in the local market in Swahili but her housekeeper does most of the cooking...
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    • Visiting Children in the Villages of Machakos

    • Visiting Children in the Villages of Machakos

    • Youth development; Host community

    • A Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Social Services working on child welfare in Machakos, a town of 20,000 residents. Here, she and her counterpart, center, and supervisor, left. They visited children in the villages.
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