This photo was taken during a laboratory activity carried out by Peace Corps Volunteer Christine Boyer in Kenya during June of 2011. Students were given the opportunity to apply their knowledge of gaseous exchange in fish by dissecting and...
This photo was taken May 2011 at Vaipu'a & Fogasavaii Primary School in Savaii, Western Samoa. It shows the culmination of our pinata project. The whole school assembled in the hall to watch each class take a crack at the pinatas year 7 & 8 had...
This photo was taken in the winter of 2009. Even though the temperature can get pretty cold in the Winter it does not stop the children from playing outside. Sledding is the favored pastime when the snow hits the ground.
I am in the middle of helping create bathrooms for the elementary school of 200 students. This is one of the volunteers that came to help out (June 2011). Amazingly, 11 volunteers showed up that day and the roof was finished in one day!
After completing a very successful first annual set of Girls Leadership Camps in the Northern Region of Ghana in 2009, the PCV's involved helped the Ministry of Education (MOE) clean up the SSS classrooms and dorms we had borrowed. We loaded the...
Huge smiles announce how much fun these five year old kids in preschool at the local Neighborhood Care Point (NCP) are having while learning their colors and numbers through fun games and coloring books. These kids come from families that don't...
Marketing campaigns; Returned Volunteer services; Volunteer recruitment
Full text of a brochure highlighting four of the earliest Peace Corps Volunteers--what inspired them to join, what they encountered overseas and how their experiences have helped shape their lives after their Peace Corps service. Although no exact...
Marketing campaigns; Volunteer recruitment; Training sites; Technical training
Full text of a brochure that discusses Peace Corps' approach to training and how it evolved over the first decade of the agency's history. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure is likely from 1969.