During my first year living in my community in Nicaragua, I loved spending my afternoons working with a youth group making videos about the community. After a while it became too much to continue editing all of the footage myself and so with a...
In parched north-eastern Nicaragua, a watermelon can make the difference between good health and malnourishment. For someone living with HIV/AIDS, it can mean the difference between life and death. This photo was in 2012 taken at a family garden...
Two stick figures are shown demonstrating one important aspect of HIV/AIDS: it only affects human beings. This was taken in Barranquilla, Colombia in 2012 during a Peace Corps workshop and was created by workshop participants.
Full text of Sargent Shriver's briefing to the press held on March 6, 1961. Shriver introduced members of the original Peace Corps task force, and fielded topics on a range of questions about the initial plans for how the Peace Corps would operate.
This photograph was taken in the mountains of the Dminican Republic where my husband and I served two years working on an organic pesticide project for coffee growers. In this photograph is our host brother, Iselso Marmol, who was a traditonal...
Volunteer Tara and her counterpart work together to provide workshops to hospital staff at a public hospital in Nicaragua. The workshops focus on ensuring equal treatment of HIV positive patients, often times the exception rather than the rule...
One of two school buildings that housed grades 1-7. The school eventually went to ninth grade. I taught a class of 55 students in grades 5 and 6. The school year was from March to the first of December. Gbarnga, Liberia, 1968.
We took this picture after receiving our new soccer uniforms. The girls had written letters to local establishments, and a fast food restaurant bought them shirts and shorts. The girls on the team were able to travel to other local communities a...
Joe Jauregui pictured with the St. Martin basketball team. Basketball was introduced by Peace Corps Volunteers in upcountry Liberia prior to my arrival. It had been popular in the capital city of Monrovia for many years. Tubman Methodist Mission...
Photo was taken in Uganda at the International Candlelight Memorial 2012. Faith, age 6, is placing a candle in remembrance of the victims of AIDS. Faith was abandoned around the age of 4 and has tested HIV negative twice but some of her fellow...
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.