Peace Corps Volunteer Paul Lux yawns at an early morning meeting during the one-year in-country conference of Honduras Group 13 at La Ceiba, Honduras. May, 1970.
Peace Corps Volunteers on the left are welcomed to Winneba Ghana for the start of their in-country training by a local Chief and his elders on the right. In the center with the tie on in a Ghanian Peace Corps employee, Will E. Last (or Willie...
I took this photo while on the c-section ward at the hospital in Arua Uganda. This is a set of twin girls. I also took photos of other twins born at this time. Being a nurse I have direct patient contact to help educate and inform. Education is a...
The left side of the photo shows Bill Miles as a Peace Corps teacher in Niger between 1977 and 1979. The right side depicts his daughter Arielle Miles, currently a Peace Corps teacher in Kenya. The picture of Bill was snapped at the CEG (middle...
Full text of Sargent Shriver's briefing to the press held on March 6, 1961. Shriver introduced members of the original Peace Corps task force, and fielded topics on a range of questions about the initial plans for how the Peace Corps would operate.
A history of the Peace Corps in Chile, prepared on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the US Peace Corps, for distribution at the reunion of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers who served in Chile, hosted by the Embassy of Chile in Washington DC...
This was a volunteer get together in Bayaguana, Dominican Republic, in 1967. The gentleman to the right of Aaron Williams is the respected Director of Education for the district, Senor de los Santos.
This is the first World Map Project Map in what was to become a standard Peace Corps activity worldwide. It is in the school in Hondo Valle, Dominican Republic. Volunteer Barbara Jo White is working with two high school students on the map. It was...
Here are the sweets before the party this March 1st which I made for my Romanian and Hungarian colleagues to share with me and commemorate the miliestone of Peace Corps birthday. Twenty of them came and helped me decorate, too. We also had...
It's not everyday you come across a counterpart that you can call family. My counterpart is exactly that. She's not quite a Mom, not quite a sister, but she's surely someone that I'll never forget. She's family. Her name is Gulnaz and she is...
PCRV Jacob Slusser teaching two young boys how to measure out and plant a reforestation plot with native tree species. Photo taken in September 2011 in Los Asientos, Los Santos Province, Panama
I took this photo on June 29, 2011, during one of my multimedia workshops I facilitated as a Peace Corps Response Volunteer in Calbayog, Philippines. I came to Calbayog to train staff members of the SOS Children's Village how to produce their own...
I took this photo while visiting a fellow PCV in Laoang, Philippines, on May 14, 2011. We had both just arrived in country as Peace Corps Response Volunteers two weeks before. My friend wanted to show me the beautiful white sand swimming beaches...
Volunteer selection; Volunteer recruitment; Technical training; Shriver, Sargent; Press and media; Kennedy, John F.;
This report outlines Sargent Shriver's initial assessment of how the concept of the Peace Corps could and should be implemented. The summary report was released to the media on March 5, 1961 by the Office of the White House Press Secretary.