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- Washing dishes, Haiti style
- Water and sanitation; Housing; Life skills
- I'm washing dishes here on my porch. I had the neighbor kids get water for me and I washed with a soap powder that I used for washing clothes, dishes and the house.
- Volunteer Photos
- Wash Day
- Life skills
- The Photo was taken at a Food and Medical Distribution Site in Jawand, Afghanistan (1972). Villagers maintained their daily chores during the food distributions.
- Volunteer Photos
- Two Years Without Electricity
- Life skills; Housing
- Mpelembe, Serenje, Central Province, Zambia
- Volunteer Photos
- To the Table
- Life skills
- My Peace Corps friend, Adam Szabunio, took this photo during my Sewing Workshop; in his Fijian village, Korokula Village,October 2011.Almost everything in Fiji is done on the floor...so(my 60 year old hips) really appreciated the tables that the...
- Volunteer Photos
- The Peace Corps in Chile, 1961 - 1968
- A history of the Peace Corps in Chile, prepared on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the US Peace Corps, for distribution at the reunion of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers who served in Chile, hosted by the Embassy of Chile in Washington DC...
- Historical Papers and Articles
- Teaching Rural Guatemalan Students Life Skills
- Life skills; Schools; HIV/AIDS
- Volunteer Aliyya Shelley teaching life skills in a rural community in the Western Highlands of Guatemala. In this class, she is teaching prevention to HIV.
- Volunteer Photos
- Tailoring with Hope
- Life skills
- I took this photo during the second month of tailoring classes for local women infected with HIV/AIDS in Uganda. Many of these women have not completed primary school and are using their new technical skills to generate income and empower...
- Volunteer Photos
- Sustainability
- Life skills; Technology
- This photo was taken at one of my sewing workshops in Fiji, South Pacific. I teach sewing skills that include repairing and maintaining sewing machines. My goal is that the participants know how to fix their only machines. In this photo- this...
- Volunteer Photos
- Sustainability
- Life skills; Technology
- I took this photo-during one of my sewing workshops in Nagado, Fiji in January, 2011. The most important part of the workshop is to show the villagers how to repair their own machines. This elderly woman is repairing her own sewing machine. Ana,...
- Volunteer Photos
- Spinning Threads
- Children; Life skills
- Spinning the thread is one of the many steps in the process of making corte, the traditional wrap worn by indigenous women of Guatemala. Kids of families start working at a young age in order to help the family in their overall attempt to survive...
- Volunteer Photos
- Spinning Thread
- Children; Life skills
- Spinning threads is a necessary task for families that make corte, the traditional wrap worn by Indigenous women of Guatemala. This photo was taken in fall 2011, however, this process is done year around since corte is made daily by thousands of...
- Volunteer Photos
- Sewing Curtains
- Life skills; Host families
- Emily Heller, sector CEC (environment), July 2011-July 2013, home life sewing curtains with her host mom for her new house.
- Volunteer Photos
- Preparing for Winter
- Environment; Life skills
- In early June 2009, a worker uses a chainsaw to cut logs to length for wood stoves. In certain regions of the country, Albanian families order several cubic meters of wood in the summer to be shortened, split, and dry so they will have enough wood...
- Volunteer Photos
- Pizza Party with Students
- Secondary projects; Life skills
- The photo was taken in Athiru Gaiti, Kenya in December of 2010. My students and I built a brick pizza oven near the start of my service and this pictures shows the final time I made pizza with them. We also painted the Peace Corps logo on the...
- Volunteer Photos
- Peace Corps Today (Spring-Summer 1997)
- Newsletters--1990s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Today (Spring-Summer, 1997).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Times (July-August 1988)
- Newsletters--1980s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Times (July-August, 1988)
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Times (Spring 1991)
- Newsletters--1990s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Times (Spring, 1991).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Times (Fall 1992)
- Newsletters--1990s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Times (Fall, 1992).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Times (Winter 1995)
- Newsletters--1990s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Times (Winter, 1995).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Times (Summer 2000)
- Newsletters--2000s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Times (Summer, 2000).
- Newsletters