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- SIDA March
- HIV/AIDS
- Photo taken on Dec. 1, 2006 when the town of Tachina, Ecuador organized a march against HIV/AIDS. These are local students from the Luis Vargas Torres high-school.
- Volunteer Photos
- Silly Girls Carrying Water
- Children
- Everyone in rural Haiti takes turns carrying water. They can carry very heavy things while walking and they often laugh at the sight of a foreigner.
- Volunteer Photos
- Silly Pose - Little Boys in Haiti
- Children
- Haitian boys loved getting their picture taking. They often posed in a serious way. I had a digital camera at the time and showed them the picture after.
- Volunteer Photos
- Solidarity
- Dance; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)
- This is a picture of the Garifuna Women's Solidarity Dance. It was taken in Belize, March 2011.
- Volunteer Photos
- Taking a Break at the AIDS march
- HIV/AIDS
- This photo was taken on Dec. 1, 2006 when the town of Tachina, Ecuador organized and AIDS march. Here a local high-school student trying to stay out of the sun.
- 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
- The White House Fallen after the Earthquake
- Natural disasters
- I visited Haiti years after service, after a major earthquake, and saw the capital building destroyed. Port-au-Prince, Haiti.
- Volunteer Photos
- Training of Health Workers
- HIV/AIDS
- This is from a training of health workers in Guinea that I supervised with my partner organization, Population Services International. The health workers were trained in how to advise those who came into their regional health centers and hospitals...
- Volunteer Photos
- Transcript of background press and radio news briefing, March 6, 1961
- Press and media; Volunteer recruitment; Volunteer selection; Vietnam war; Volunteer compensation;
- 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.
- Press Briefings
- Washing dishes, Haiti style
- Water and sanitation; Housing; Life skills
- I'm washing dishes here on my porch. I had the neighbor kids get water for me and I washed with a soap powder that I used for washing clothes, dishes and the house.
- Volunteer Photos
- Washing Facilities in Haiti
- Water and sanitation; Housing
- Out my second story window, you can see my latrine (orange door) and kitchen straight ahead and shower to the left. Some of the year, there was a water basin, but I treated the water with bleach because there was algae and mosquitoes.
- Volunteer Photos
- Watch Us Spay This Dog
- Animals
- I translated for a visiting vet in Haiti. They spayed a dog right in front of us while the local vet students watched. I learned a lot of vocabulary that day.
- Volunteer Photos
- We're Family
- Host families
- This picture was taken after a year of service, in June of 2004, when I went back to my training site in the community of Koujol, not far from Archaie, Haiti, to visit my host family. The little girl on the right, Kenya, was born during my 3...
- Volunteer Photos