This doctor serves as the Peace Corps physician for some 200 Volunteers scattered through the eight islands of the Eastern Caribbean. He was in private practice in El Cerrito, Cal. for 22 years before becoming a Peace Corps doctor. In his work,...
This Volunteer works in community development in Gagnoa, Ivory Coast. He works primarily with school gardens. Here this Volunteer teaches gardening to students in Gagnoa. He covers about 40 schools in the area and provides seeds to get them...
Education; Life Skills; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)
This Volunteer works in adult education at the Foyer de la Femme in Toumodi, Ivory Coast, where she conducts classes in basic French and mathematics. She also teaches sewing and cooking and literacy five afternoons a week.
This Volunteer is among a group of Volunteers working with small businesses in Ivory Coast. The goal of the program is to encourage the development of small businesses by Africans in a country where the control of most businesses is in the hands of...
This Volunteer is among a group of Volunteers working with small businesses in the Ivory Coast. The goal of the program is to encourage the development of small businesses by Africans in a country where most of the businesses is in the hands of...
The Volunteers in Daloa, Ivory Coast, are involved in different facts of the health program. The Volunteer works on pediatric nursing. The other Volunteer spends much of his time visiting villages and giving health lectures to the people. Here, the...
A health and nutrition class in the Foyer de la Femme center in Gagnoa, Ivory Coast. While the people get plenty of food, they often don’t get enough variety of the right foods and Peace Corps Volunteers try to teach them to eat the foods that...
This Volunteer works in health education in Issia, Ivory Coast. Here, the Volunteer, country director and a French official talk to the Sous-Perfect in his villa in Issia.
The Volunteer discusses the loan prospects of the owner of a furniture and mattress factory with officials of the Development Bank of the Ivory Coast. Until now, French businessmen have controlled the economy of the Ivory Coast and local...
This Volunteer works in health education in Daloa, Ivory Coast. The Volunteer and a co-worker are talking to a villager who has just constructed the latrine in the background on the advice of the Volunteer.
These three Volunteers began their service in the Ivory Coast. Here, the three volunteers attend a language class in Abidjan. In the classroom they work on the specific dialect of their region.
Education; Language training; Business development
This Volunteer discusses school life in the United States with a group of high school students in Abidjan, Ivory Coast, who had invited him to speak to their English Club. The Volunteer is part of a Peace Corps program helping Ivorien businessmen...