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    • Meet the Press, December 15, 1963

    • Meet the Press, December 15, 1963

    • Shriver, Sargent; Peace Corps Directors; Kennedy, John F.-- Assassination; Budget; Community development

    • Full text transcript of the December 15, 1963 edition of the television program Meet the Press. Sargent Shriver was the featured guest and he discussed the challenges and accomplishments of the Peace Corps during its early years.
    • Press Briefings
    • Wildlife Biologist

    • Wildlife Biologist

    • Agriculture; Environment; Fishing

    • This Volunteer is a wildlife biologist at Mole National Park in Ghana. His duties include anti-poaching activities, general management of the park, and compiling wildlife surveys on the number and species of animals and their food, movement, and...
    • Agency Photos
    • On the Road to a Future Tennis Career

    • On the Road to a Future Tennis Career

    • Sports

    • This Volunteer is helping to set up a systematic program aimed at launching boys and girls on the road to a future tennis career. The students begin training the first year of secondary school and continue throughout their six-year stay. August,...
    • Agency Photos
    • Pounding Millet

    • Pounding Millet

    • Food and meals; Agriculture

    • This Volunteer helps village women with community development work in Tassor. Here after pounding millet, their staple food, Susan talks with a village woman about the long hours she spends pounding millet. January, 1980
    • Agency Photos
    • Pounding Millet

    • Pounding Millet

    • Food and meals; Agriculture

    • This Volunteer helps village women with community development work in Tassor. Here, after pounding millet, their staple food, Susan attempts to balance the pail of millet on her head as the village women do. January, 1980
    • Agency Photos
    • Pounding Millet

    • Pounding Millet

    • Food and meals; Agriculture

    • This Volunteer helps village women with community development work in Tassor. Here, she watches a village woman wash the millet (their staple food) that has been ground. She hopes that simple machinery utilizing a bicycle wheel may be installed to...
    • Agency Photos
    • Business Education Instructor

    • Business Education Instructor

    • Business development; Education

    • This Volunteer is a business education instructor at the St. John Bosca Training College in Navrongo. Here she meets at her home with other teachers to plan the curriculum for the coming semester. January, 1980
    • Agency Photos
    • Dressmaking

    • Dressmaking

    • Teachers and students; Education

    • This Volunteer teaches dressmaking, math and English at the National Women’s Training Centre in Madina. Her vocationally-oriented classes in dressmaking are attended by girls who leave school and are slow learners. Here she works with some of...
    • Agency Photos
    • Staff Nurse

    • Staff Nurse
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    • A Peace Corps staff nurse works in Ghana where she provides medical support to Volunteers, especially those from her particular region. Here she goes shopping with the wife of Peace Corps/Ghana's deputy director, in the Kumasi market. Fall, 1968
    • Agency Photos
    • Chatting with Students

    • Chatting with Students

    • Teachers and students; Education

    • This Volunteer teaches dressmaking, math and English at the National Women’s Training Centre in Madina. Her vocationally-oriented classes in dressmaking are attended by girls who are slow learners and leave school. Here she chats with students...
    • Agency Photos
    • Pounding Millet

    • Pounding Millet

    • Food and meals; Agriculture

    • This Volunteer helps village women with community development work in Tassor. Here she watches a village woman wash the millet (their staple food) that has been ground. She hopes that simple machinery utilizing a bicycle wheel may be installed to...
    • Agency Photos
    • Dressmaking

    • Dressmaking

    • Teachers and students; Education

    • This Volunteer teaches dressmaking, math and English at the National Women’s Training Centre in Madina. Her vocationally-oriented classes in dressmaking are attended by girls who leave school and are slow learners. Here she works with some of...
    • Agency Photos
    • Teaching English

    • Teaching English

    • Teachers and students

    • This Volunteer teaches English to students at the Asanteman Secondary School. Here she works with some of her students. January, 1980
    • Agency Photos
    • Making Adinka Cloth

    • Making Adinka Cloth

    • Traditional dress; teachers and students; Education

    • This Volunteer markets cloth and vegetable products, and also is setting up demonstration farms in the Ntonso area. Here he watches craftsmen make Adinka cloth. January, 1980
    • Agency Photos

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