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- Peace Corps Volunteer (August 1967)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (August 1967).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (September 1967)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (September 1967).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (October 1967)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (October 1967).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (November 1967)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (November1967).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (December 1967)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (December 1967).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (February 1968)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (February 1968).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (March 1968)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (March 1968).
- Newsletters
- 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
- 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
- Press release announcing appointment of Sargent Shriver as first Director of the Peace Corps, March 4, 1961
- Press and media; Peace Corps Directors; Kennedy, John F.;
- Full text of the March 4, 1961 White House press release announcing the appointment of Sargent Shriver as first Director of the Peace Corps. Also provides brief biographies of early Peace Corps staff members.
- Press Briefings
- 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
- 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
- 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
- Stop AIDS, Love Life
- HIV/AIDS
- After having completed our first HIV/AIDS meeting ever at our senior high school, we went around teaching them the "Stop AIDS, Love Life" handshake which everyone fell in love with. This photo was taken this year, 2012, after my form 2 students...
- 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
- 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
- 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
- The Despedida 3: Be My Wife and Share a Life
- Weddings
- The Despedida 3: Be My Wife and Share a Life shows me saying that “I, Geoffrey Alan Hirsch, take thee, Francia Marchan Villar, to be my wedded wife, to share a life, as long as we both shall live.” It’s the same concept as “’til death do...
- Volunteer Photos
- The Life of a Girl-Child
- Children
- It was just another day in Kpendua, another lunch in my best friend's compound with his family. One of the neighboring children walked in to greet us all, carrying her younger sister on her back as usual This photo was taken in 2008 in Kpendua,...
- Volunteer Photos