This photo is from a dental clinic Mary organized last Feb. 5, 2011 in conjunction with AMPBD (Association Morocaine De Prevention Bucco-Dentaire). Approximately 400 children attended.
November 29, 2010. A mother holds tight as her baby receives an MMR vaccination during a campaign. You can see the nurse's hands. Many children came to the campaign with incomplete vaccination records.
This photo is of a team building activity during the week of Camp UNITE. The team of seven girls must work together to cross the "dangerous waters" to find food and save their village. Pagui is the intimidating figure with the tail to the right...
September 2010. My friend PCV Katrina leads a session at a Camp she helped organize in her village Nadjoundi. Thirty girls from her village attended the three-day camp just before the beginning of the school year, to promote the importance of...
March 2011. My friend PCV Christy sits with the children at Club Espoir in Dapaong, northern Togo. At the time we were listening to the opening comments from one of the organizers. Club Espoir (Club Hope) is organized by PCVs and Dapaong's...
July 21 2008. This photo was taken just after I finished a health talk at the "casa materna" in the town of Los Chiles, Rio San Juan. A casa materna or "community-based birthing home" is a house maintained by the Ministry of Health or another...
June 2008. This photo was taken at our Project Design and Management workshop at Selva Negra, near the city of Matagalpa. Three Nicaraguan colleagues and I are perfecting "el baile de pollo", or the chicken dance, that we had been practicing...
Host community friends; Volunteers; Traditional dress
February 2011. I got my hair braided in Cinkasse in northern Togo. I had a great time talking and laughing with these two ladies, two wives of the same husband, while they did their work. Braids and wigs are the style there, as women often have...
November 2010. This photo was taken at the High School in Cinkasse, northern Togo. Our team is warming up for the big match. Teachers versus Students. I had been working with an environment group of high school students, and they had been...
Full text of a brochure highlighting Peace Corps programs and activities in the field of education. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure is likely from 1969.
Full text of the earliest known Peace Corps recruiting brochure. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure is likely from 1961. The back page includes a list of members of the Peace Corps National Advisory Council.