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.
Liberia XIII was the first in-country training program in Liberia. After a two week staging process in Philadelphia our group flew directly to Liberia. We were all educators. Our training consisted of teaching at a vacation school conducted at...
A Volunteer at Kabete Hospital, Nairobi, Kenya is responsible in the making of dentures, gold crown and bridge work and other oral appliances--and has as his goal to leave qualified Kenyans in dental technology to improve the country’s dental...
A Volunteer is helping a physical therapy student with advice as to proper exercises to improve the use of the patient’s leg. She teaches physical therapy at the Medical Training Center in Nairobi.
A Volunteer is helping a physical therapy student with advice as to proper exercises to improve the use of the patient’s leg. She teaches physical therapy at the Medical Training Center in Nairobi.
A Volunteer is teaching at the Coast Provincial General Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya. Here she watches as one of her nursing students demonstrates the proper techniques in checking a patients blood pressure.
More and more of ACTION’s Peace Corps Volunteer training is shifting from the U.S. to the host-countries. The photo shows a coastal training site in Mombasa for trainees who will be serving in Kenya.
Pre-service Training (PST); In-country Training; Knight Foundation
Trainees arrive in Bangkok for in-country training. In the photo is Kevin Delaney, Country Director of Thailand. Peace Corps Volunteers were trained in Hawaii. March 3, 1969
More and more of ACTION’s Peace Corps Volunteer training is shifting from the U.S. to the host-countries. The photo shows a coastal training site in Mombasa for trainees who will be serving in Kenya.
A Volunteer is teaching at the Coast Provincial General Hospital in Mombasa, Kenya. Here she watches as one of her nursing students demonstrates the proper techniques for giving mouth care to a patient.
Peace Corps Volunteer is working on the Kenyon coast in Klifi to provide adequate drinking water for a resettlement area. He is organizing the construction of a large rural water supply. There are 135 individuals working under his direction. He...