At the end of each of our teaching cycles the
basic training school would hold a celebration which consisted of a photograph, banquet, and entertainment. We Peace Corps Volunteers are seated with some of our students standing in Kurnool, Andhra...
Our Health Nutrition team taught at a Gram Sevika Basic Training School for young people who would become rural elementary teachers. One month we taught courses in health, nutrition, vegetable gardening, and making of a smokeless chula...
This Volunteer works in the health education in Issia, Ivory Coast. Here is the Volunteer during her lecture on nutrition in one of the villages near Issia. She tries to convince the people that if they feed their children a balanced diet they will...
This Volunteer works in the health education in Issia, Ivory Coast. Here is the Volunteer during her lecture on nutrition in one of the villages near Issia. She tries to convince the people that if they feed their children a balanced diet they will...
This Volunteer works in the health education in Issia, Ivory Coast. Here the Volunteer lectures on nutrition in one of the villages near Issia. She tries to convince the people that if they feed their children a balanced diet they will be healthier...
A health and nutrition class in the Foyer de la Femme center in Gagnoa, Ivory Coast. While the people get plenty of food, they often don’t get enough variety of the right foods and Peace Corps Volunteers try to teach them to eat the foods that...
This Volunteer teaches health and nutrition class in the Foyer de la Femme center in Gagnoa, Ivory Coast. While the people get plenty of food, they often don’t get enough variety, and Peace Corps Volunteers try to teach them to eat the foods that...
This Returned Peace Corps Volunteer is now involved in Project Head Start (OEO) as a Senior Nutrition Specialist. Her job takes her from the hollows of Kentucky to Indian reservations and migrant camps, and from the Virgin Islands to Alaska and...
This Volunteer works in nutrition and child health care in the Ivory Coast. Here she holds a child who has had a balanced diet and explains what the diet consists of.
This Volunteer works with families on nutrition, environmental sanitation, community development and mother-child care. Here she is shown (with light shirt) talking to a health inspector for the Paraguayan government and families about hygiene in...
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A collection of letters written by Peace Corps Volunteers serving as community health nurses in Malaysia, Niger, Afghanistan, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), Turkey, Peru, Bolivia, India and Togo. No date is given, but the publication appears to...