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- Peace Corps facts
- Full-text of an early Peace Corps marketing brochure--copyright date is unknown but it appears to be from the 1960s.
- Brochures
- 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
- Decision to Join Changed Her Life-Jeanne Trumble Hejduk
- Business Development
- Volunteer Stories
- Kokpar in the Mud
- Kazakh horsemen participate in a game of Kokpar during the Nauryz celebration to mark the beginning of Spring. Two teams attempt to take possession of a headless goat carcass and drop it in a goal on their side of the field. The field was muddy...
- Volunteer Photos
- Citizen in a Time of Change: The Returned Peace Corps Volunteer
- Congress; Wofford, Harris
- 1965 RPCV Conference Report
- Historical Papers and Articles
- Sea Turtles
- Remains from the slaughter of five sea turtles for the graduation celebration of Neighboring Island Central High School. Sea turtles are an important component, culturally, of the Micronesian diet, especially at ceremonies. This graduation year,...
- Volunteer Photos
- Picnic at Sri Nagar
- This photo was taken by a fellow volunteer at the picnic which usually punctuated our Teacher Trainings. It was very common to walk a goat to the picnic, and then cook and eat the goat as part of the meal. The teachers offered me the honor of...
- Volunteer Photos
- Jerash
- One of the columns of an ancient Roman city in the Northern most part of Jordan.
- Volunteer Photos
- Mosque Door Panel
- A close-up of the King Abdullah Mosque door in the capital city of Amman, Jordan.
- Volunteer Photos
- Center Mural
- My site-mate and I were discussing potential ideas for our center's mural project. We painted these images with respective Arabic numbers so that the students could use them as counting resources.
- Volunteer Photos
- Becoming a Shiehk
- My neighbor and long time friend brought me over my Close of Service goodbye gift. A tradition dishdash, robe, head piece and prayer beads. We spent the evening with me dressed up and drinking coffee on the roof.
- Volunteer Photos
- Tom with a student
- Tom was teaching a very energetic student. This student was smart, but didn't know how to interact with her surroundings. Tom made it an effort to illustrate 'raising hands' as a respectful way to get someone's attention.
- Volunteer Photos
- Tire in an Orchard
- This tire was for some reason laying in the middle of a beautiful lemon tree orchard.
- Volunteer Photos
- The slapping game
- My host family had my fellow training group over for lunch. We all sat, talked and Jessica taught my host sister the 'hand slapping game.' It was the hit of the afternoon.
- Volunteer Photos
- As Our Fathers Before Us...
- The men of this outer island in Yap State of the Federated States of Micronesia replace the palm frond thatch roofing on a traditional Micronesian house. Every family in the village of the house will weave and contribute at least ten pieces of...
- Volunteer Photos
- Arabic lessons
- We all were being taught Arabic in a local school. It was the first week in the country and the lessons had gotten stressful. We moved outside to get fresh air and the morale brightened.
- Volunteer Photos
- Stomp Out Malaria - Mosquito Netting Project Crew
- The photo was taken at the completion of the mosquito netting project in Mozambique. The goal of the project was to prevent malaria by putting up new mosquito netting in all windows and plant lemon grass outside of the classrooms to deter...
- Volunteer Photos
- Stomp Out Malaria - Mosquito Netting Project Crew at Work
- Taken during the retrofitting of all windows with mosquito netting at a secondary school in Mozambique. The goal of the project was to retrofit all windows with new mosquito netting and plant lemon grass plants outside of the classroom to deter...
- Volunteer Photos
- Drum Lesson
- One of our LCFs taught a fellow volunteer to play the local drums. The bus ride from seeing historic landmark was that much more fun with live music and everyone singing along.
- Volunteer Photos
- American Football in Namibia
- I played football for ten years in Texas before joining Peace Corps. I lived in a rural town that is very close to the border of South Africa, where rugby is a very popular sport. I figured I'd introduce a new sport to these kids, so taught them...
- Volunteer Photos