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- HIV in the Classroom
- HIV/AIDS
- Volunteer Mark Stratton Jr. (Education, Kenya 2010-12) teaches a Life Skills class to form 1 (freshmen) students about HIV transmission and the effects it has on the immune system.
- Volunteer Photos
- Condom Games
- HIV/AIDS
- Volunteer Alison (Education, Kenya 2010-2012) helps a girl open a condom for a condom relay race held at the annual Camp GLOW, which empowers girls through HIV/AIDS education. The camp also focuses on relationships, gender violence, and careers for...
- Volunteer Photos
- Girls Leading Our World (GLOW)
- HIV/AIDS
- Three Kenyan secondary students (from left: A-Star, Monica, and Emily) attend May 2012 Camp GLOW for 55 secondary female students from Kenya's Eastern and Coast Provinces. The camp focuses on HIV/AIDS prevention, treatment, stigma reduction, as...
- Volunteer Photos
- On Your Mark, Get Set, Go
- Children
- These kids are probably 40 years old by now; photo was taken in Niger in 1972.
- Volunteer Photos
- Fiji 1970
- Volunteers; Host community
- Volunteers in Fiji 1970.
- Volunteer Photos
- A Rocket Project Accomplished
- Youth development; Secondary projects
- A fellow Volunteer, Bruce, was placed in Eastern Slovakia and helped school children with making model rockets. It was successful and this photo is of those children with him in the front row.
- Volunteer Photos
- Let the Creative Juices Flow
- Pre-service training (PST); Volunteers; Art; Education
- In an effort to nurture creativity, the training staff engaged the Volunteers in a group mural painting exercise. We all made contributions and learned collective creative thinking. But it didn't do much for our painting skills.
- Volunteer Photos
- Going to Town
- Transportation
- Stopped along a country road in Central Slovakia, to our surprise came this Slovak couple traveling to town on their horse drawned wagon. When asked if they had a car they said "no." They must have wondered why Americans were in the countryside...
- Volunteer Photos
- A Slovak Version of a Political Rally
- Volunteers; Host families; Pre-service training (PST)
- During our training our host mother asked us to go with here into nature (hike) into the hills surrounding the village of Modra. We didn't know at the time that is was a political rally for a political party, of which there were many. We were...
- Volunteer Photos
- Detom Slovensco; Children of Slovakia
- Children
- Children of Slovakia is a non-profit organization in which Janet was assigned. They held events throughout the country and this is one example of the last day when everyone is together. Janet is front left as you look at the photo. Slovak people...
- Volunteer Photos
- Woodcutter in the Woods
- Elders
- While staying with two Slovak young men at a historic mill in the woods of the High Tatry of Northern Slovakia, I was invited to join them in walking to a cabin, the home of an old woodcutter. One of the young men had promised to take photos of his...
- Volunteer Photos
- Returning Home
- transportation; Elders
- For Slovaks that live in the country, wood is essential for heating and cooking. So, a day cutting wood was accomplished by these men, and we met them on their way home. Obviously, a horse drawn wagon uses the same roads as automobiles and trucks...
- Volunteer Photos
- Class of 1997
- Swearing-in ceremonies
- After three grueliing months of training we finally arrived at the graduation ceramony in Slovakia. Nelson Chase, Country Director, was at the podium congratulating us for accomplishing our first step. As I remember, no one had left our class at...
- 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
- A Towering Task (February 1, 1961 draft)
- Wiggins, Warren
- Full-text of the February 1, 1961 draft of Warren Wiggins' essay 'The Towering Task.' This essay discusses the early history of the concept of the Peace Corps and outlines Wiggins' suggestions for implementing Peace Corps at a starting level of...
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Why Johnny Can't
- Peace Corps Directors; Vaughn, Jack; Women in Peace Corps
- Full text of Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn's September, 1966 speech entitled 'Why Johnny Can't' given at Town Hall in Los Angeles.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Remembering Sarge: One Year Later - A Conversation with Mark Shriver
- Shriver, Sargent
- Mark Shriver visits Peace Corps to pay tribute to his father and first director of the Peace Corps, the late Sargent Shriver, on the one-year anniversary of his passing in a speech to special guests and staff at Peace Corps headquarters.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Remarks by Sargent Shriver at the commencement exercises, Kansas State University, June 3, 1962
- Shriver, Sargent; Peace Corps Directors; Universities
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's commencement address at Kansas State University on June 3, 1962.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Peace Corps Presentation of FY 1962 Program to United States Congress, June 1961
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 1962.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Peace Corps Congressional Presentation, Fiscal Year 1971
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 1971.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials