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- Peace Corps Volunteer (January 1967)
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Newsletters--1960s -
Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (January 1967). - Newsletters
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- Peace Corps Volunteer (September 1967)
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Newsletters--1960s -
Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (September 1967). - Newsletters
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- Peace Corps Volunteer (December 1967)
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Newsletters--1960s -
Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (December 1967). - Newsletters
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- Fire it up!
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Celebrations; Housing -
Volunteers Casimir and Stephanie work with Mohammed and Adam to make their torches to burn for Fire Festival, an event that takes place in the northern region of Ghana. This photo was taken at my house in December of 2010. - Volunteer Photos
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- Warming Up By the Fire
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Dedushka, Russian for grandfather, sits by the fire with his cat warming his hands. This photo was taken during the winter months in Ukraine. - Volunteer Photos
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- Sangam Temple Fire Walking
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Ceremonies; Religion; Traditional dress -
I took this photo during an annual Hindu fire walking ceremony in September, 2008 at Sangam Temple in Navua, Fiji. The ritual is an act of self-purification and is part of a vow in which the devotee promises to walk on fire in order to receive... - Volunteer Photos
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- Fire Festival Boy
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Ceremonies; Traditional dress; Religion -
The boy in the picture is celebrating the fire festival in a village surrounding Tamale, the Northern Regional capital of Ghana. The fire festival (Bugum) is observed by Muslims here to mark the landing of prophet Noah's Ark after the flood. It is... - Volunteer Photos
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- Fire Jumper, Dominica
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Tewe Vaval ceremony as celebrated by the native Kalinago tribe to mark the end of "King Carnival". A colorful cardboard coffin effigy of the "King" is slowly paraded up and down the streets in Kalanago territory to the sound of repeated chants,... - Volunteer Photos
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- Wood Fire Cooking
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Although tanks of natural gas are available in this small pueblito in Queretaro, Mexico, families here still cook on open wood fires to a large extent. Trucks selling gas make themselves noisily known as they drive through town with music blaring... - Volunteer Photos
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- I Have Yet to See a Fire Truck
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This photograph was taken in July 2011 at my school. One of the many ceremonies and traditions that I've experienced while teaching in Indonesia-- but this one has got to be the hottest---is every day the new students (10th graders) would bring... - Volunteer Photos
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- Lighting Fire Crackers
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Guatemalan kids love fire crackers, especially as a tradition many take part in during the holidays. Stores always sell fire crackers and in December 2011 just before Christmas many were being lit and set off here in the highlands of Guatemala. - Volunteer Photos
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- The Peace Corps in Chile, 1961 - 1968
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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... - Historical Papers and Articles
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- The Peace Corps: a pilot program for American development
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Peace Corps Directors; Vaughn, Jack; Volunteer compensation; Volunteer recruitment; Volunteer selection; Volunteerism; Training design and evaluation -
Full text of Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn's February 13, 1968 address at Harvard Business School. - Speeches, Essays and Letters
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- The Cause of the Rebels
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Excerpts from a September 26, 1968 speech given by Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn at a meeting of the American Management Association - Speeches, Essays and Letters
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- Letters from nurses in the Peace Corps
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Nurses; Medicine; Doctors; Disease; Health; Traditional medicine; Teachers and students; Work; Universities -
A collection of letters written by Peace Corps Volunteers serving as community health nurses in Malaysia, Niger, Afghanistan, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), Turkey, Peru, Bolivia, India and Togo. No date is given, but the publication appears to... - Speeches, Essays and Letters
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- Remembering Sarge: One Year Later - A Conversation with Mark Shriver
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Mark Shriver visits Peace Corps to pay tribute to his father and first director of the Peace Corps, the late Sargent Shriver, on the one-year anniversary of his passing in a speech to special guests and staff at Peace Corps headquarters. - Speeches, Essays and Letters
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- Peace Corps Congressional Budget Presentation, Fiscal Year 1997
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Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 1997. - Congressional and Legislative Materials
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- The Peace Corps' role in food production
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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
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- Her American Sister
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Host families; Weddings; Marriage - Volunteer Stories
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