Sports; Celebrations; Youth; Children; World Map Project
I took this photo before the first game of the World Cup 2010 in my site in the mountains of Panama. These are children of an indigenous group and have no electricity to watch the games. Therefore, we listen to all the games on my radio. Here they...
Volunteerism; Small Project Assistance (SPA); Architecture; Host community friends
I took this photo on-site in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic on August 12th, 2006 during a joint project with the local Habitat for Humanity. The small project teamed Peace Corps Volunteers with local friends to encourage volunteerism within their own...
My husband and I recently painted a World Map on a blank wall near the Junior High School in the Eastern Region of Ghana. To encourage the students to actually use the map, we did activities related to the World Cup. One day we located all the...
Business development; Income generation; Training; Food and meals
Construction of a demonstration solar copra dryer, Nukulaelae atoll, January 1982. The solar dryer was constructed by a group of local workers trained by the Volunteer and utilized mainly local materials including chain sawn coconut timber. The...
A fellow Volunteer, Bruce, was placed in Eastern Slovakia and helped school children with making model rockets. It was successful and this photo is of those children with him in the front row.
Shriver, Sargent; Master's International (MI); Universities; State-side training;
Full text of Sargent Shriver's February 9, 1962 statement prepared for the Student Editor's Conference on International Affairs held at the Overseas Press Club in New York City. The statement focuses on efforts by Peace Corps and its partner...
Mark Shriver visits Peace Corps to pay tribute to his father and first director of the Peace Corps, the late Sargent Shriver, on the one-year anniversary of his passing in a speech to special guests and staff at Peace Corps headquarters.
Shriver, Sargent; International service organizations;
Full text of Sargent Shriver's speech entitled "The Peace Corps Speaks for Itself," delivered to the New York Herald Tribune Youth Forum on March 24, 1961.