Press and media; Peace Corps Directors; Kennedy, John F.;
Full text of the March 4, 1961 White House press release announcing the appointment of Sargent Shriver as first Director of the Peace Corps. Also provides brief biographies of early Peace Corps staff members.
This photo was taken in Namibia at the after school program Kayec during our pre-service training for health group 33. We taught the kids how to play the American game of baseball. This boy was trying on a baseball helmet for safety.
Work; Women in Peace Corps; Education; Girls' education; Environment
I took this photo on the north coast of Jamaica of students from my "Environmental Awareness" class at Knox Community College. This is was the first time most of them had ever been to the ocean or beach. I took them tidepooling and swimming. To get...
This photo was taken at Waterberg Primary School in Ongombombonde, Namibia (Otjozondjupa Region) June 6, 2009 . The school and PCV solicited for an in-kind donation of teddy bears for the full first grade class (100+ students) from an organization...
This photo was taken on September 27, 2008 in Koleshino, Macedonia at the First Annual NovoFest. The local municipality of Novo Selo wished to develop their tourist industry during my Peace Corps assignment in their local economic development...
This photo was taken on July 17, 2011 in the market of Huaraz, Ancash, Peru during my Peace Corps training. Guinea pig, or rather Cuy, is a delicacy in Peru that I had wanted to try since I first arrived in the country. I took this photo because I...
Day Before Easter 1992, Loko Masama, Sierra Leone
Submitted for the sharing American culture category.
My neighbor children are coloring Easter eggs for their first time. I had to buy eggs from 5 different houses in the village so that I could have...
Volunteer Clare and I worked with vendors on St. Maartins to put together an exposition of computer equipment in 1982. We had an Apple II, a Radio Shack TR3, some special purpose word processors from IBM and other equipment. The schools and...