Sports; Women in Development (WID)/ Gender and Development (GAD)
This photo was taken in April 2011 in Guatemala. As an outlet and self-esteem builder, I started a basketball league for teenage girls from surrounding areas. This picture shows some of the girls wearing their newly donated jerseys from a family...
Volunteer Aliyya Shelley teaching life skills in a rural community in the Western Highlands of Guatemala. In this class, she is teaching prevention to HIV.
This photograph features myself, my site mate Christina, and a local counterpart, Arnulfo, from the Ministry of Education. As youth development Volunteers, we facilitated a two-day HIV/AIDS workshop in Totonicapán, Guatemala in February 2011. The...
Speech prepared for delivery before the annual luncheon, YWCA Board of Directors,
October 18, 1961, Waldorf, Astoria, New York City.
Women in the Peace Corps
by Sargent Shriver.
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.
I took this photo while biking on the road from my home in Spaldings, Jamaica to my work at Knox Community College. The photo evokes the scents and sounds of rural Jamaica to me.
A youth development Volunteer Amanda in Orica - Honduras working with children from her community on how to play baseball , a sport that is not popular in Honduras.
Full text of Sargent Shriver's remarks before the 71st annual convention of the General Federation of Women's Clubs, held in Washington, DC on June 26, 1962.
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.