In 1990 we had a combined Agriculture and Beekeeping In-service Training. After spending hours and hours learning about green manure and water filtration ditches, all in Spanish, highly technical and delivered by the Dean of the Agricultural...
In April 2007 I was doing school visits far from the main road in the remote, mountainous Tsatsane Valley (Quthing province, LESOTHO). This orphan boy wandered by the hut where I was overnighting. The neck of his guitar was an old piece of wood...
This photo was taken in my first village, a small Bulgarian Muslim community in northeastern Bulgaria. I was playing in my yard one day with three of my girls, and we just enjoyed one another's company through games, eating apples, and air...
I took this photo at Xai-Xai Beach in Mozambique right at the end of my Peace Corps Service in June of 2007. Justin is playing the guitar and David is sitting on the right. The boys sold necklaces made of shells at the beach and were intrigued by...
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; Women in Peace Corps
Full text of a brochure highlighting the unique challenges faced by women in the early years of the Peace Corps, as well as their many accomplishments around the world. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure is likely from...
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...