Scene on one of more than 2,000 islands that make up the Trust Territory of the Pacific, better known as Micronesia. Despite the idyllic tropical setting (much of the territory is within a few degrees of the Equator, covering some 3 million miles...
This Volunteer is the school nurse for the 856 students of Ponape Island Central School. She also teaches pre-nursing and runs checks for leprosy. Photo by Woodson.
These Peace Corps Voluntee are architects and are shown helping design public housing on the island of Saipan in Micronesia. They are part of a major program in the islands that includes various technical and professional skills thaat are lacking...
These Peace Corps Voluntee are architects and are shown helping design public housing on the island of Saipan in Micronesia. They are part of a major program in the islands that includes various technical and professional skills that are lacking in...
A Volunteer assists as a medical technologist. They are checking for signs of TB through a Mantoux skin test and by listening for lung congestion. She also is shown interviewing families of TB patients and explaining the importance of the tests.
A Volunteer assists a a medical technologist in Papua New Guinea. She is shown interviewing families of TB patients and explaining the importance of the tests.
Volunteer leads a ninth grade class in an English lesson at the largest rural high school in Papua New Guinea. She is one of 22 teachers at the school and is shown wearing a typical Papua New Guinea women’s dress.
A Volunteer leads a ninth grade class in an English lesson at the largest rural high school in Papua New Guinea. She is one of 22 teachers at the school and is shown wearing a typical Papua New Guinea women’s dress.
A Volunteer leads a ninth grade class in an English lesson at the largest rural high school in Papua New Guinea. She is one of 22 teachers at the school and is shown wearing a typical Papua New Guinea women’s dress.
A Volunteer leads a ninth grade class in an English lesson at the largest rural high school in Papua New Guinea. She is one of 22 teachers at the school, and is shown wearing a typical Papua New Guinea women’s dress.
A Volunteer works with the Division of Health in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guniea. He is shown working with a local, using computer facilities to enter data from a field survey.
A Volunteer works as a Health Care Officer. She spends much of her time providing advice on nutrition, sanitation and health care to nursing aids and patients at a hospital in Papua New Guinea.
A Volunteer works with the Division of Health in the Southern Highlands of Papua New Guinea. He is shown working with a French volunteer doctor at a hospital as he makes morning rounds.