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    • Teaching Industrial Arts

    • Teaching Industrial Arts
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    • This Peace Corps Volunteer is shown helping students in his shop class construct tables. He is assigned to a high school in Majuro, the district center of the Marshall Islands. He joined the Peace Corps in 1972 to teach industrial arts.
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    • Micronesia

    • Micronesia
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    • Scene on one of more than 2,000 islands that make up the Trust Territory of the Pacific, better known as Micronesia. Despite the idyllic tropical setting (much of the territory is within a few degrees of the Equator, covering some 3 million miles...
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    • School Nurse

    • School Nurse
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    • This Volunteer is the school nurse for the 856 students of Ponape Island Central School. She also teaches pre-nursing and runs checks for leprosy. Photo by Woodson.
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    • Architects

    • Architects
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    • These Peace Corps Voluntee are architects and are shown helping design public housing on the island of Saipan in Micronesia. They are part of a major program in the islands that includes various technical and professional skills that are lacking in...
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    • PNG PC 1499-18-7A 1988 P13

    • PNG PC 1499-18-7A 1988 P13
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    • Peace Corps Volunteer Mary Johnson examines life in the sea with her 7th grade science class at the Dregerhafen School in Papua New Guinea. With her students, she searches for examples of living communities along the shoreline. Photo by Carolyn...
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    • Lata Field Experiment Station (FES)

    • Lata Field Experiment Station (FES)
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    • The Lata FES was newly completed when we arrived. It was funded through British and European development aid. The photos shows staff housing and new plantings of decorative hedgerow. We were surprised how fast things grew and that all you needed...
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    • Local Children in Our Shoes and Hats

    • Local Children in Our Shoes and Hats
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    • Most afternoons our house was filled with the station's children who loved to come in and dress up in our hats and shoes and dance around. We enjoyed playing with the kids and answering their many questions about where we came from and why we...
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    • Volunteer Helps Build Greenhouse

    • Volunteer Helps Build Greenhouse

    • Agriculture; Community Development; Construction

    • A Volunteer works as a Rural Community Development worker in Gumine, Papua New Guinea. They are helping a local family construct and cover a greenhouse to be used in the production of vegetable seedlings.
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    • Custom Dance

    • Custom Dance
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    • In this dance picture notice the traditional finery: The breast plate made of clam shell with turtle shell design, banana fiber loincloth, bark cloth attached to the arm bands, shell headbands with feathers, leg rattles made from seeds of a...
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    • Papaya and Pineapple Plot

    • Papaya and Pineapple Plot
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    • We planted this papaya and pineapple plot early in our service. It provided fruit for the staff and extra food was brought to the hospital in Lata. At our going away feast before we completed our service, one Temotu friend said "you did not...
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    • Women Planting Yams

    • Women Planting Yams
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    • In this photo the wives of FES staff and work crew helped to plant yams in ITTA plot. Yams are one of the staple foods in the Solomon Islanders' diet. Yams are roasted over an open fire, baked in the traditional stone oven, cooked in pot with...
    • Volunteer Photos

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