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- Lata Field Experiment Station (FES)
- Architecture
- The Lata FES was newly completed when we arrived. It was funded through British and European development aid. The photos shows staff housing and new plantings of decorative hedgerow. We were surprised how fast things grew and that all you needed...
- Volunteer Photos
- Local Children in Our Shoes and Hats
- Children
- Most afternoons our house was filled with the station's children who loved to come in and dress up in our hats and shoes and dance around. We enjoyed playing with the kids and answering their many questions about where we came from and why we...
- Volunteer Photos
- Sue and Richard Helping to Clear the Plot
- Children; Environment
- Even the children enjoyed working with us and wanted to help with the project. Children accompany their parents to the garden and learn how to plant, harvest and prepare the local foods.
- Volunteer Photos
- Custom Dance
- Dance; Traditional dress
- In this dance picture notice the traditional finery: The breast plate made of clam shell with turtle shell design, banana fiber loincloth, bark cloth attached to the arm bands, shell headbands with feathers, leg rattles made from seeds of a...
- Volunteer Photos
- Papaya and Pineapple Plot
- Environment
- We planted this papaya and pineapple plot early in our service. It provided fruit for the staff and extra food was brought to the hospital in Lata. At our going away feast before we completed our service, one Temotu friend said "you did not...
- Volunteer Photos
- Women Planting Yams
- Environment; Gardens
- In this photo the wives of FES staff and work crew helped to plant yams in ITTA plot. Yams are one of the staple foods in the Solomon Islanders' diet. Yams are roasted over an open fire, baked in the traditional stone oven, cooked in pot with...
- Volunteer Photos
- FES Work Crew
- Environment; Host community friends
- This is Ed and Sue with our local work crew (and friends). The project we were assigned was called Improved Temotu Traditional Agriculture (ITTA), a tree crop farming system based on traditional tree crops, such as breadfruit, several varieties of...
- Volunteer Photos
- Sex Ed in Nuevo Gualcho
- HIV/AIDS
- Steps for putting on a condom. The youth group members hold signs to organize themselves in the process of condom application.
- Volunteer Photos
- Ed and Sue at Home
- Housing
- This is a photo of us in front of our house at our site. We were agroforestry volunteers with Dodo Creek Agricultural Research Station under the Solomon Island Ministry of Agriculture and Lands. We were stationed in the remote Santa Cruz Island...
- Volunteer Photos
- Custom Dance
- Traditional dress; Dance; Celebrations
- Several times during the year the villages would celebrate a traditional event with custom dancing. The men would dress in their finest gear and dance around the dance circle to the beat of rattles tied to their ankles, dance sticks drumming the...
- Volunteer Photos
- The Peace Corps' role in food production
- Agriculture; Volunteer recruitment
- Full text of a brochure highlighting Peace Corps programs and activities in the fields of agriculture, animal husbandry, horticulture, and forestry. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure is likely from 1969.
- Brochures
- Temotu Volunteers
- Volunteers
- Five Temotu Peace Corps Volunteers at the Lata airport welcoming a visiting Volunteer (center of photo). Besides ourselves working in Agro-forestry, the other Volunteers were community education officers, provincial planners and health officers....
- Volunteer Photos
- Peace Corps Congressional Presentation, Fiscal Year 1967
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 1967.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Peace Corps Congressional Presentation, Fiscal Year 1969
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 1969.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Peace Corps Presentation of FY 1962 Program to United States Congress, June 1961
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 1962.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Peace Corps Annual Operations Report, Fiscal Year 1973
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 1973.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- ACTION Fiscal Year 1974 Budget: Peace Corps Submission to the Congress
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 1973.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Peace Corps Annual Operations Report, Fiscal Year 1975
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 1975.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- ACTION Fiscal Year 1978 Budget Estimate: International Programs
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 1978.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- ACTION Fiscal Year 1979 Budget Estimate: International Programs (Peace Corps)
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 1979.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials