Full text of a brochure highlighting Peace Corps programs and activities and how Peace Corps fit in to the newly formed federal agency ACTION, which was established on July 1, 1971. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure is...
Full text of a brochure highlighting Peace Corps programs and activities in the fields of agriculture, animal husbandry, horticulture, and forestry. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure is likely from 1969.
The picture is more of the laundry than the house. I took a picture of it in July 2001, seven months living in my site, to remember the hard work that went into my clean clothes before I returned to the land of washing machines. The photo summons...
This photo was taken in Nicaragua from the top of a mountain called ¨Cerro La Gloria.¨ It was taken in December of 2010. Peace Corps Volunteers hiked to the top of the mountain to capture the beauty of this part of the country in order to share...
This photo was taken during a tree planting event in Macuelizo, Nueva Segovia, Nicaragua in 1997. I helped Macuelizo establish a tree nursery and the trees were planted around town, on farms and riverbanks, and in degraded areas. The boy planting...
This Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Health as a social welfare worker, where she bathes and feeds children at a day care center for malnourished children.
This Volunteer is a natural resources educator under the ministry of Agriculture. She teaches school children the care and preservation of forests as an important resource.
This Volunteer is a farm advisor to small farmers and local cooperatives near Rio Dario. He has helped them make for expanding their irrigation system, visits their fields and advises on planting and control of irrigated fields and inspects the...
This Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Health as a social welfare worker, where she bathes and feeds children at a day care center for malnourished children.
This Volunteer is a community development social worker with the FUNDE- Savings & Loan Cooperative program where she surveys all water resources in order to improve supply and guarantee source year- found for town. Here she talks with community...