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- Nutrition Volunteer
- Nutrition
- 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...
- Agency Photos
- Public Health Volunteer
- Health
- This Volunteer creates and organizes concentrated, integrated programs of public health in rural satellite areas. Here he is shown in front of his house with neighborhood children.
- Agency Photos
- Volunteer Nurses
- Medicine
- These Volunteer nurses are shown talking with Paraguayan counterparts during time off from classes. Both nurse Volunteers teach a nursing program of 56 students, who will eventually man the small health centers where frequently no other source of...
- Agency Photos
- Ant Control Project
- Agriculture
- This Volunteer is assigned to an Ant Control Project in Paraguay. Here he is shown (with beard) studying ant activity at ant hill with Americo Aranda, a Paraguayan technical assistant for the Instituto de Ciencias Bosicas, in Paraguay. These ants...
- Agency Photos
- A Basketball School in Paraguay
- Sports; Secondary projects; Youth
- Volunteer Stories
- ACTION 1977 Annual Report
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the ACTION Annual Report for 1977.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Training: language, skill and service--the education of a Volunteer
- Marketing campaigns; Volunteer recruitment; Training sites; Technical training
- Full text of a brochure that discusses Peace Corps' approach to training and how it evolved over the first decade of the agency's history. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure is likely from 1969.
- Brochures
- Presidential Delegation to Paraguay
- Dignitaries; Congress; Williams, Aaron S.
- Peace Corps Director Aaron Williams meets with Peace Corps/Paraguay Volunteers in Asuncion, Paraguay as part of a Presidential Delegation to visit Peace Corps Volunteers and to commemorate the Bicentennial of the Independence of the Republic of...
- Staff Photos
- Four for the Peace Corps
- Marketing campaigns; Returned Volunteer services; Volunteer recruitment
- Full text of a brochure highlighting four of the earliest Peace Corps Volunteers--what inspired them to join, what they encountered overseas and how their experiences have helped shape their lives after their Peace Corps service. Although no exact...
- Brochures
- The Peace Corps' role in food production
- Agriculture; Volunteer recruitment
- 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.
- Brochures
- Statement of Jack Vaughn, Director of the Peace Corps, before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, September 19, 1967
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn's September 19, 1967 statement before the House Foreign Relations Committee.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Action Update (October 31, 1979)
- Newsletters--1970s
- Full text of the Action Update (October 31, 1979).
- Newsletters
- Action Update (November 28, 1980)
- Newsletters--1980s
- Full text of the Action Update (November 28, 1980).
- Newsletters
- All Stars
- Games; Children; Volunteers
- This picture is of a group of volunteers and youth after a basketball game. The picture was take on July 7, 2011.
- Volunteer Photos
- An Underutilized Resource in the Community
- Agriculture
- I took this photo on October 18th, 2007 in my site in Paraguay. Neni is demonstrating a creative reuse of the abundant sour orange rinds available in the community: plantable seed-starting pots.
- Volunteer Photos
- APCD Antonio Dacak Playing Guitar
- Music
- In 1990 we had a combined Agriculture and Beekeeping In-service Training. After spending hours and hours learning about green manure and water filtration ditches, all in Spanish, highly technical and delivered by the Dean of the Agricultural...
- Volunteer Photos
- Aregua 2 Training Class, Paraguay
- Pre-service Training (PST)
- Our training group had just arrived in country in June, 1989, and our first stop was Ykua Sati, a retreat center just outside of Asuncion, where we spent a few nights for orientation, language testing and lots of shots by the Peace Corps Medical...
- Volunteer Photos
- Banana-powered Bicycles
- Host community; Transportation; Host community friends
- This photo was taken August 25th, 2007 along the Pan-American Highway near my site in Paraugay. It shows my wife and I joking with Paraguayans about how we get around on banana-powered bicycles.
- Volunteer Photos
- Boat Day, Bahia Negra
- Transportation; Terrain; Rural sites
- I took this photo on May 16th, 2008 on the Rio Paraguay in Alto Paraguay province. Boat day only happens once a week in isolated border towns where the massive Pantanal wetland meets the Chaco desert. When the boat arrives, it's the town's only...
- Volunteer Photos
- Bori bori (Typical Paraguayan dish)
- Food and meals; Cooking
- I took this picture in Villeta, Central on February 16, 2011 while at a friend's house during lunch time.
- Volunteer Photos