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- Wedding Bliss
- Weddings; Celebrations; Dance; Traditional dress
- The midwife at a local clinic celebrates on her wedding day in Burkina Faso. The bride is dancing with friends during a Muslim wedding celebration where friends stick money on her while singing and dancing. People all around are using technology...
- Volunteer Photos
- Transcript of background press and radio news briefing, March 6, 1961
- Press and media; Volunteer recruitment; Volunteer selection; Vietnam war; Volunteer compensation;
- 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.
- Press Briefings
- Traditional Clothing
- Youth; Traditional dress; Celebrations
- I took this photo during the celebration of Namibia's independence. Independence came to Namibia on March 21, 1990. I was visiting a fellow Peace Corps volunteer (she's my wife today). The picture is of a few students wearing traditional Nama...
- Volunteer Photos
- To The Market
- Traditional dress; Cross-cultural transition
- A Yoruba lady on her way to market in Nigeria just after arriving for our tour in January 1964.
- Volunteer Photos
- The Peace Corps in Chile, 1961 - 1968
- 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...
- Historical Papers and Articles
- The Good Guest
- host families; Culture shock and adaptation
- This photo was taken in November of 2005, in Jidr El Mohghuen, Mauritania. As a new volunteer, one of the most difficult things to adjust to was how to be a "good guest" when getting to know new families. The midwesterner in me demanded that I...
- Volunteer Photos
- The Caucasus
- Animals; Culture shock and adaptation; Site orientation; Volunteers
- View of the foothills of the eastern portion of the greater Caucasus, in the town of Lagodekhi, Georgia, approximately 5 kilometers from the Azerbaijani border. A typical cow herder leading the cows home at the end of the day (most cows know how to...
- Volunteer Photos
- Sumqayit Shore
- culture shock and adaptation; elders
- I took this photo our first day in our training location, Sumqayit, Azerbaijan - a suburb of the capital city of Baku, and a former Soviet industrial playground perched on the Caspian Sea. Having only arrived in country a week earlier, my husband...
- Volunteer Photos
- Students in Native Costume on Culture Day
- Traditional dress
- The Headmaster sent some students - only from his tribe - home to collect ancestral headwear, dress, and artifacts for the Culture Day competition. The rest of the students had to forage in the nearby forest for their attire. The young men are...
- Volunteer Photos
- Stick Dance -- Pohnpei Culture Day 2011
- Children; Host community; Traditional dress; Dance
- Three ECE (kindergarten) students rehearse a traditional stick dance they will perform with their classmates on Pohnpei Culture Day, March 2011.
- Volunteer Photos
- Sharing Kenyan Culture
- Traditional dress
- In April 2011, I visited the Carden Traditional School and spoke to several groups of 6th through 8th grade students about Kenyan culture. In this picture, I am talking about one of the various attractions for visitors to see in Kenya. I am dressed...
- Volunteer Photos
- Sharing Culture by Action!
- Dance
- This is a photo of me and several of my community members as we participate in a local celebration in the Lubombo region of Swaziland. The festival commemorates the harvest of the marula fruit in February 2011 and women from all over come together...
- Volunteer Photos
- Sharing American School Culture with Tanzanian Teacher and Students
- teachers and students
- The culture exchange began February 2011 when students of an American teacher at Heritage Intermediate School and students of Tanzanian teacher at Malinid Juu corresponded with each other to lean more about the culture of each other's country.
- Volunteer Photos
- Sharing American Culture Overseas
- traditional dress; celebrations; youth
- This picture was taken at Toufestelt village near Ain Leuh in the middle Atlas mountain of Morocco. I was working with a group of 12 Lakeside high school students from Seatle, Washington who were there on service training in July, 2011. The...
- Volunteer Photos
- The Volunteer (February 1962)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of Vol. 1, No. 2 (February 1962) of The Volunteer: a newsletter by and for the Volunteers of the Peace Corps
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (April 1968)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (April 1968).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (June 1968)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (June 1968).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (July-August 1968)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (July-August 1968).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (September 1968)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (September 1968).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (October 1968)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (October 1968).
- Newsletters