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- Off to the Field
- Agriculture; Counterparts
- Photograph of Eleanora (Norrie Iberall) Robbins in 1965 preparing to leave for geological field work in Kondoa from the Tanganyika Geological Survey office in Dodoma. The men in the photo are her field chief, animal tracker, field assistants,...
- Volunteer Photos
- Gbomuko Village
- Agriculture; Environment
- Photo was taken by T. L. Green. I worked with him and his wife, Sally, both botanists, on the ecology of a tropical plant in Sierra Leone. The village chief of Gbomuko Village SL and retired chiefdom clerk welcomed us to the area as we searched...
- Volunteer Photos
- Diamond Digging
- Environment
- Sierra Leone, Kono District, African side of the Bafi River.
- Volunteer Photos
- Fresh Coconuts!
- Children; Environment; Food and meals; Agriculture
- A child from my village would climb the coconut tree in my back yard and get coconuts - one for me and the others to sell.
- Volunteer Photos
- Two Men Going Hunting
- Sports; Environment; Wildlife
- I went for a walk one day during training and saw these two men going hunting. Ocober 2004
- Volunteer Photos
- After-School Snack
- Food and meals; Environment; Agriculture; Children
- This girl is picking a mango with a long stick with a hook at the end on March 6, 2010 in Mali. Mango season is the tastiest of all the Malian seasonal changes. The girl's younger brother will stand underneath the branch once she hooks the stem,...
- Volunteer Photos
- Puchov Playground
- Secondary projects
- Took this photo on my return to Slovakia in May 2005, four years after I left. It is the playground that was built after our successful public relations campaign that included grant writing, community involvement and fund raising. *Note that my...
- Volunteer Photos
- A Volunteer Working with Agricultural Students
- Environment
- A Guinea Volunteer is working directly with agricultural students to provide guidance on proper planting and care of a root crop.
- Volunteer Photos
- Scarecrow Made of Banana Leaves
- Host community friends; Environment; Wildlife
- I knew when I arrive in the morning that something was up. The fish farmers were very excited and they said that there was something that they wanted to show me. In Gahombo they had a lot of problems with Hammerkops (birds) stealling the fish. I...
- Volunteer Photos
- Bujumbura, Burundi Jane Goodall Chimp Sanctuary 1990
- Animals; Environment
- This was taken at the Jane Goodall Chimp Sanctuary in Bujumbura, Burundi. While I was living in Bujumbura on the weekends I used to volunteer at the sanctuary to help feed and play with the chimps. Aly, the chimp in my right arm was one of my...
- Volunteer Photos
- Afternoon Hike
- Youth; Teachers and students; Environment
- Volunteer Bob takes his class out on a hike in Slovakia.
- Volunteer Photos
- Laguna de Pozuelos
- Wildlife
- Flamingos at the Man in the Biosphere Reserve in the province of Jujuy, Argentina, 1993
- Volunteer Photos
- A Volunteer in a Lagoon
- Water and sanitation; Wildlife
- Pablo, an Argentinian biologist, took this photo of me as we were wading across La Laguna de Pozuelos in northern Jujuy in 1993. We were on a flamingo collecting trip to study the diets of three different species of flamingos.
- Volunteer Photos
- At the Seatrack
- Environment; Fishing
- Namukulu folks at their seatrack while one is out fishing in a vaka.
- Volunteer Photos
- Peace Corps Volunteer in Sri Lanka
- Host families; Host community friends; Environment
- Photo of host father and friends enjoying themselves in the water pond in Pibidunugama-Sri Lanka.
- Volunteer Photos
- Nearby Hills
- Environment
- This was a place that I liked to go when I wanted to get away. It was a hilltop that looked down on smaller hills and a valley with a river that ran through it. The first time I went there I couldn't figure out what was so different. And than it...
- Volunteer Photos
- Preparing to Spray Fruit Trees
- Children; Host community; Environment
- Ernie is showing neighbor children Behrouz Salehi and Shahab Daregari what he is doing to prepare the pesticide to spray on the fruit trees. This photo was taken at our house in Kerend, Iran, Summer 1970
- Volunteer Photos
- Winter of 1971
- Weather; Environment
- This picture was taken of my town, Shar- e -kurd in the winter of 1971. You never went ourtside alone in the winter. Wild dogs and wolves would come down from the mountains and look for food. Shar-e-kurd had a reputation of being one of the coldest...
- Volunteer Photos
- Volunteers on the Ferry to Buenos Aires
- Transportation
- This is a photo two Volunteers serving in Uruguay who travelled to Buenos Aires for a weekend when Peace Corps Washington was initiating Argentina Program. 1991-1992
- Volunteer Photos
- Citizen in a Time of Change: The Returned Peace Corps Volunteer
- Congress; Wofford, Harris
- 1965 RPCV Conference Report
- Historical Papers and Articles