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    • Outdoor Class

    • Outdoor Class

    • Education

    • There are no desks in village schools. Classes during winter are held outdoors in the sun where the children can squat on the warm ground comfortably.
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    • Nurse at Mental Hospital

    • Nurse at Mental Hospital

    • Health; Nurses; Food and meals

    • At an evening meal station, this Peace Corps Volunteer helps patients learn to feed themselves again. The Volunteer is a nurse at the Government Mental Hospital in Lahore, West Pakistan. Here she checks one of the evening meal stations – this...
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    • Nurse at Mental Hospital

    • Nurse at Mental Hospital

    • Health; Nurses

    • This Peace Corps Volunteer is a nurse at the Government Mental Hospital in Lahore, West Pakistan. Here she talks to the staff members on the hospital grounds.
    • Agency Photos
    • Nurse at Mental Hospital

    • Nurse at Mental Hospital

    • Health; Nurses

    • This Peace Corps Volunteer is a nurse at the Government Mental Hospital in Lahore, West Pakistan. Here she attends one of the morning staff meetings that have been started since her arrival in the hospital.
    • Agency Photos
    • Agricultural Science Teacher

    • Agricultural Science Teacher

    • Education; Agriculture

    • This Peace Corps Volunteer teaches agricultural science at a rural “pilot high school” in northwest Pakistan near the Afghan border. The schools, and others like it, have been opened by the Pakistan government to train teachers in the fields of...
    • Agency Photos
    • Farming Training Center

    • Farming Training Center

    • Education; Agriculture

    • On the edge of the Hindu Kush, one of Asia’s highest mountain ranges, in northwest Pakistan is a training center where tomorrow’s farmers are taught modern methods of cultivation. A mainstay of the school staff has been this Peace Corps...
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    • Communication Teacher

    • Communication Teacher

    • Education; Technology

    • This Peace Corps Volunteer teaches in the communication section of the West Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology in Lahore. Here she works out a problem on the blackboard with students.
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    • Communication Teacher

    • Communication Teacher

    • Education; Technology

    • This Peace Corps Volunteer teaches in the communication section of the West Pakistan University of Engineering and Technology in Lahore. Here she works out a problem on the blackboard with students.
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    • Teaching Women's Groups

    • Teaching Women's Groups

    • Health; Community development

    • This Peace Corps Volunteer is working at Comilla East Pakistan, a crowded (2000 person per square mile) but fertile delta region. Recently an organization called the Pakistan Academy for Village development has been making an effort to raise the...
    • Agency Photos
    • Teaching Women's Groups

    • Teaching Women's Groups

    • Education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This Peace Corps Volunteer works with women’s groups at Comilla, teaching such subjects as health and sanitation. Many villages near Comilla still observe purdah, the traditional segregation of women from men and from life outside the home.
    • Agency Photos
    • Teaching Women's Groups

    • Teaching Women's Groups

    • Education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This Peace Corps Volunteer is working at Comilla, East Pakistan, a crowded (2000 person per square mile) but fertile delta region. Recently, an organization called the Pakistan Academy for Village Development has been making an effort to raise the...
    • Agency Photos
    • Teaching Women's Groups

    • Teaching Women's Groups

    • Education; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)

    • This Volunteer works with women’s groups at Comilla, teaching such subjects as health and sanitation. Many villages near Comilla still observe purdah, the traditional segregation of women from men and from life outside the home.
    • Agency Photos
    • Agricultural Specialist

    • Agricultural Specialist

    • Agriculture

    • This Peace Corps Volunteer is an agricultural specialist working in connection with the Academy for Village Development at Comilla. He has set up a model dairy. 1962
    • Agency Photos
    • Conversing at an Inter-Cultural Program

    • Conversing at an Inter-Cultural Program

    • Volunteers; Host Community

    • A Peace Corps Volunteer who teaches industrial arts at Dacca University, the mother of the volunteer’s in-country training host family, the Vice Chancellor of Dacca University, a Peace Corps Volunteer who works as a carpenter in the Mirpur...
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    • First Tubewell Sunk

    • First Tubewell Sunk

    • Construction; Water and sanitation

    • Vance Brand watches as first of 1,800 tubewells sunk in the Rechna Doab area is turned on. Mr. Brand, who officiated at ceremonies at Sukheke when first 127 of these 1,800 tubewells were electrified, then was managing director of the US...
    • Agency Photos
    • Ghana, 1961

    • Ghana, 1961

    • Schools; Teachers and students

    • This photo shows a Peace Corps Volunteer teaching high school students in Ghana in 1961.
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