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...
I and other fisheries Volunteers were able to view Silver back Mountain Gorillas at Virunga National Park after language training and before starting our volunteer projects.
The Congo/Zaire River is in the background. I was visiting Kinshasa and Zaire for the first week when this photo was taken. The fisheries program director had birds that talked (African Greys) and great view of the river. 1980
Forestry Peace Corps Volunteer David Griggs happened upon a neglected Indian reservation of the Ache/Guaiyaki in the forests of eastern Paraguay in April 1971. This first encounter led to my service working with the Ache/Gaiyaki. Ultimately, Peace...
I took this photo on our last day of painting an AIDS awareness mural at a local CSPS in Burkina Faso, May 26th 2012. The mural was painted with the help of a secondary school girls group. The girls also came up with a skit and presented it at...
Pre-service training (PST); Peace Corps Headquarters
Fellow Fisheries Volunteer at Peace Corps Headquarters in Kinshasa. We landed in Kinshasa and learned some basic details before leaving for a brief tour of fish ponds/villages and farmers in-country.
After breaking my ankle in a motorcycle accident, I was flown for surgery to South Africa. I visited the Voortrekker Monument while I was there. Pretoria, South Africa
Kinshasa, Zaire/Congo at Peace Corps headquarters. We were provided with new Yamaha 125 motorcycles, as fisheries Volunteers and we did cover a large area which required a bike. Later, I broke my ankle.
Fisheries Volunteers tour internal regions of the Congo, before language training. Here, we are visiting farmers, other Volunteers and villages for a short update, and then we were scheduled to start language training in Bukavu/Lake Kivu in eastern...
Fellow Fisheries Volunteer visiting the Mbuji-Mayi area before language training. Immediately after arriving in-country, we had a brief tour of fish ponds/farmers/villages. Composte was key to success with fisheries.
Howard Clemens at University of Oklahoma trained a group of us and this picture shows two of us during language training in Bukuavu, Zaire/Congo, with Lake Kivu.