Teachers and students; Knight Foundation; Education
This Volunteer serves as a math and science teacher in Bamenda, Cameroon. He teaches at the College of Commerce, and also serves as a regional Volunteer Leader. Here he is shown with staff and students. October, 1987
Traditional dress; teachers and students; Education
This Volunteer markets cloth and vegetable products, and also is setting up demonstration farms in the Ntonso area. Here he watches craftsmen make Adinka cloth. January, 1980
A Volunteer math teacher, pursues the answer to a problem with three of her students. More than half of the Volunteers throughout the world are involved in education activity. The Peace Corps, which marks its fifth anniversary this spring, counts...
This photo was taken in 2004 at the Botanical Gardens located in Roseau, Dominica. A parked school bus has been left undisturbed for decades after an adjacent tree had fallen on it and has since gained new use as a tourist attraction.
After completing training in Rabat, it was time to travel to "site", home for the next two years. This highway led the bus over the Atlas Mountains to Errachidia, Morocco.
All travel in upcountry Liberia was by taxi or “money bus”. There was no schedule.
When a taxi driver got a full complement of at least 6 passengers he would leave. The Peugeot station wagon was the car of choice. The “money bus”...
Transportation; Education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)
This Peace Corps Volunteer works with women’s groups at Comilla, teaching such subjects as health and sanitation. Here she checks the motor of her jeep, which was giving her trouble.
Full text of Sargent Shriver's May, 1962 statement concerning inquiries: "to what extent, whether either in theory or in practice, members of the Peace Corps are working for, controlled by, or guided by agencies or employees of the United Nations?...
Vaughn, Jack; Peace Corps Directors; Volunteerism; VISTA
This February 13, 1968 press release outlines Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn's suggestions for increasing domestic volunteerism in the United States.
Full text of a brochure featuring the recollections of several notable former Peace Corps staff members and Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, including Harris Wofford, Donna Shalala, Maureen Orth and others. Although no exact date of publication is...
Peace Corps Volunteer works at the Medical Training Center, Nairobi, Kenya, as a occupational therapist and as a teacher at the School of Occupational Therapy.
Two Peace Corps Volunteers helping to set up a crafts program and sheltered workshop at a residential hospital for the elderly and handicapped in Colombia, South America. She works primarily with a handicrafts program, and hopes to establish an...
Water and sanitation; Education; Knight Foundation
This Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of health as a health education volunteer, working with village health committees and independent groups. Here she teaches community children the importance of washing hands as part of family hygiene...