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    • Teaching Deaf Students

    • Teaching Deaf Students

    • ACTION; Knight Foundation; Education; Health

    • This Action Peace Corps Volunteer was a teacher at the Austine School for the Deaf in Brattleboro, Vermont. She now works with the Ministry of Education in Belize City, Belize. She is at the Stella Maris School for the Physically Handicapped, where...
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    • Apiculture

    • Apiculture

    • Agriculture; ACTION; Knight Foundation

    • This Volunteer, without a protective veil or gloves, examines a beehive with a Mayan apiarist. Mulzac, He is serving in Belize, Central America. 1974
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    • Agricultural Education Volunteer

    • Agricultural Education Volunteer

    • Agriculture; Education; Knight Foundation

    • This is an agricultural education Volunteer, teaching young farmers to raise animals, and to establish garden plots. Here she chats with an agricultural extension worker, Sawadogo Jenvier and his child. 1980
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    • Agricultural Education Volunteer

    • Agricultural Education Volunteer

    • Agriculture; Education; Knight Foundation

    • This is an agricultural education Volunteer, teaching young farmers to raise animals, and to establish garden plots. Here, she learns about traditional skills from villagers such as this dyer who is dipping locally made cotton cloth in outdoor vats...
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    • Grain Storage Advisor

    • Grain Storage Advisor

    • Agriculture; Education; Knight Foundation

    • This Volunteer is assigned to the Department of Cooperation and Mutuality as a grain storage advisor for cooperatives in the northwest province of Cameroon. He gives lectures to farmers on good storage methods and principles and he educates them on...
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    • Grain Storage Advisor

    • Grain Storage Advisor

    • Agriculture; Education; Knight Foundation

    • This Volunteer is assigned to the Department of Cooperation and Mutuality as a grain storage advisor for cooperatives in the northwest province of Cameroon. He gives lectures to farmers on good storage methods and principles and he educates them on...
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    • Fish Culture Promotion Volunteer

    • Fish Culture Promotion Volunteer

    • Agriculture; Fishing; Knight Foundation

    • This Volunteer is assigned to the Department of Agriculture as a fish culture promotion Volunteer. Working with Cameroonian counterparts, he supervises a fish station and the spawning of carp for fingerling production.
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    • Fish Culture Promotion Volunteer

    • Fish Culture Promotion Volunteer

    • Agriculture; Fishing; Knight Foundation

    • This Volunteer is assigned to the Department of Agriculture as a fish culture promotion Volunteer. Working with Cameroonian counterparts, he supervises a fish station and the spawning of carp for fingerling production.
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    • Fish Culture Promotion Volunteer

    • Fish Culture Promotion Volunteer

    • Agriculture; Fishing; Knight Foundation

    • This Volunteer is assigned to the Department of Agriculture as a fish culture promotion Volunteer. Working with Cameroonian counterparts, he supervises a fish station and the spawning of carp for fingerling production.
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    • Fish Culture Promotion Volunteer

    • Fish Culture Promotion Volunteer

    • Agriculture; Fishing; Knight Foundation

    • This Volunteer is assigned to the Department of Agriculture as a fish culture promotion Volunteer. Working with Cameroonian counterparts, he supervises a fish station and the spawning of carp for fingerling production.
    • Agency Photos
    • Agricultural Engineer in Antigua

    • Agricultural Engineer in Antigua

    • Agriculture; Knight Foundation

    • This Volunteer is an agricultural engineer working specifically in the area of soil and water conservation. In the photo shown, he is helping to assemble the new food processing unit at the headquarters of the Department of Agriculture in Antigua....
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    • Agricultural Engineer in Antigua

    • Agricultural Engineer in Antigua

    • Agriculture; Knight Foundation

    • This Volunteer is an agricultural engineer working specifically in the area of soil and water conservation. In the photo shown, he is helping to assemble the new food processing unit at the headquarters of the Department of Agriculture in Antigua....
    • Agency Photos
    • Forestry Volunteer

    • Forestry Volunteer

    • Agriculture; Knight Foundation

    • This Volunteer working in forestry in Kaya selects correctly-sized discs for moulding furnace openings. They first set up the mould of concrete blocks for forming stoves and then pack the sand into the mould which will then be iron-reinforced. 1980
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    • Climbing a Palm Tree

    • Climbing a Palm Tree

    • Agriculture; Life skills; Knight Foundation

    • This Volunteer is an itinerant agent for health education in Cameroon. Here he braves his first ascent of a palm tree, climbing with traditional belt of bamboo. 1979
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    • Veterinary Laboratory Technician

    • Veterinary Laboratory Technician

    • Animals; Health; Knight Foundation

    • July 1974 PCV Elinor Leland, 25, of Catonsville, Md. is assigned to Belize, Central America as a Peace Corps veterinary laboratory technician. Her job is to assist the local veterinartian in giving injections or medication and studying animal...
    • Agency Photos
    • Art Education

    • Art Education

    • Art; Education; Knight Foundation

    • This Volunteer is an art teacher in St. Thomas, Barbados. She is shown her with some of her students in classes which include drawing, painting, sculpture, mobiles, collage and print-making. Her time is divided between Welches Mixed School (shown...
    • Agency Photos
    • New Co-ops in the Solomon Islands

    • New Co-ops in the Solomon Islands

    • Business development; Knight Foundation

    • Volunteer Jim is a co-op advisor for three new Co-ops operating in the Guadalcanal Plains area of the Solomon Islands. Stewart who is training and supervising the staff of these co-ops, is assisting employees check invoices on the goods being...
    • Agency Photos
    • New Co-ops in the Solomon Islands

    • New Co-ops in the Solomon Islands

    • Business development; Knight Foundation

    • Volunteer Jim is a co-op advisor for three new Co-ops operating in the Guadalcanal Plains area of the Solomon Islands. Stewart who is training and supervising the staff of these co-ops, is assisting employees check invoices on the goods being...
    • Agency Photos
    • Crafts Advisor

    • Crafts Advisor

    • Business development; Knight Foundation

    • This Volunteer is a crafts advisor in St. Johns, Antigua. Working under the Ministry of Finance, Industry and Tourism, he is helping to develop ceramic skills and a budding crafts industry. His base of operations is the Arawak Crafts Center, which...
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