This paper explores the life of a teacher, John S. Noffsinger, who arrived in Manila in either late May or early June 1910, and taught for two years in Bayombong, Nueva Viscaya.
Vaughn, Jack; Peace Corps Directors; Volunteerism; VISTA
This February 13, 1968 press release outlines Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn's suggestions for increasing domestic volunteerism in the United States.
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...
This Volunteer is working with the Rural Electrification program in Nicaragua. Here he is shown riding a horse as he goes from village to village surveying the needs of the area in order to plan for power distribution lines. He passes poles...
This Volunteer is working with the Rural Electrification cooperative. Here he is shown explaining electrification to a few villagers collected on the main road near Tonala.
This Volunteer is working with the Rural Electrification program in Nicaragua. Here he is shown riding a horse as he goes from village to village surveying the needs of the area in order to plan for power distribution lines. He passes poles...
A carpenter on his way home from work carrying his new power saw that he is now able to use since the installation of electricity by the Peace Corps’ Rural Electrification program.
These two Volunteers work with the Rural Electrification program. Here the Volunteers are shown holding a survey map and talking about an area that they have yet to cover.
This Volunteer is a teacher trainer in the Dominican Republic. Her job takes her to a number of rural schools where she works with teachers helping them expand and upgrade existing methods of teaching in a country where 80 percent of the rural...
PCV is working on the Kenyon coast in Klifi to provide adequate drinking water for a resettlement area. He is organizing the construction of a large rural water supply. There are 135 individuals working under his direction. He supervises the...
This Volunteer works in a Peace Corps integrated rural development program in conjunction with Ecuador’s Centro de Rehabilitacion de Manabi.Some responsibilities include teaching nutrtion, health, first aid, handicrafts to women. Here she is...
Coal tipples such as this one typify the landscape of Eastern Kentucky. This Peace Corps Volunteer sees this sight every day as he visits coal and lumber communities in Kentucky’s Appalachia.
Rural sites; Education; Health; Community development
This Volunteer works in Rural Community Development and health education in Ony Babre, Ivory Coast. Here, the Volunteer talks with an Ivorian. She learned to speak french (the official language of this former French colony) during her Peace Corps...
This Volunteer works in Rural Community development and health education in Ony Babre, Ivory Coast. Here, the Volunteer explains to some of the villagers of Ony Babre how to take the medicine she has gotten for them.
Rural sites; Community development; Education; Health
This Voluntter works in a rural community development and health education in Ony Babre, Ivory Coast. Here the Volunteer teaches a literacy class. She is trying to teach the women to count enough French so that they can deal in the Gagnoa market...
Education; Rural sites; Community development; Literacy
This Volunteer works in a rural community development and health education in Ony Babre, Ivory Coast. Here the Volunteer teaches a literacy class. She is trying to teach the women to count enough French so that they can deal in the Gagnoa market...
Education; Health; Rural Sites; Community development; Children
This Volunteer works in a rural community development and health education in Ony Babre, Ivory Coast. Here the Volunteer and her co-worker help weigh in an Ivorian child at the health classes the Peace Corps has established in Ony Babre. In Africa,...
Games; Rural sites; Community development; Health; Education
This Volunteer works in a rural community development and health education in Ony Babre, Ivory Coast. Here the Volunteer relaxes by playing “African Crackers” with some of the men of Ony Babre village.
Nurses; Children; Health; Education; Rural sites; Community development
This Volunteer works in a Rural Community development and health education in Ony Babre, Ivory Coast. Here the Volunteer and her co-worker help weigh in an Ivorien child at the health classes the Peace Corps has established in Ony Babre. In Africa...