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- Youth in Rural South Africa Trained as HIV Peer Educators
- HIV/AIDS; Youth
- The Stars of Tomorrow is an HIV peer education program made possible through VAST funds. The three-day training took place January 31 through February 2, 2011. Twenty-one unemployed, out of school youth in their 20s were trained to be HIV peer...
- Volunteer Photos
- Working Cowboys
- Youth; Work; Rural sites
- While we were conducting a home visit, these two boys came tromping back from working out in the fields. They were instantly curious as to who the strangers in their house were. They looked so cute in their matching cowboy hats that I asked to take...
- Volunteer Photos
- Winter Afternoon
- Weather; Terrain; Rural sites
- This picture was taken in Samaulkol, North Kazakshtan Oblast. February 2008
- Volunteer Photos
- The Rising Sun
- Terrain; Rural sites
- Everyday that I walked to work at the Health Center, I took a shortcut over this hill with the broken down adobe house on one side and the new adobe house on the other, complete with a family of 10. This morning I was waiting for my companion, and...
- Volunteer Photos
- The Peace Corps in Chile, 1961 - 1968
- 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...
- Historical Papers and Articles
- The Long and Winding Road
- Rural sites; Terrain; Environment
- While on the way to a community called Muluva, I took this photo. Not only was it during the dry season, but it was during one of the worst dry seasons that Guatemala had experienced in a long time. The path winds through the mountains with almost...
- Volunteer Photos
- Teaching Rural Guatemalan Students Life Skills
- Life skills; Schools; HIV/AIDS
- 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.
- Volunteer Photos
- Sugarcane Oxcart
- Agriculture; Youth; Transportation; Rural sites
- This photo from August 24th, 2007 was taken in my site of Ruta'i, Torin, Caaguazu in Paraguay. It is of a boy loading an oxcart with sugarcane that will be used to feed other animals.
- Volunteer Photos
- San Bartolome Jocotenango
- Rural sites; terrain
- A tiny, indigenous town in the middle of the mountains in the department of Quiche, Guatemala, a beautiful place that has kept up the traditions of the K'iche people as well as the language. I took this photo my first month, and while sitting on...
- Volunteer Photos
- Rural Wedding DJ
- Weddings; Transportation;
- I took this photo during my last days of service in Paraguay on November 7th, 2008 just before the wedding of a fellow Volunteer to a host country national. The wedding took place in a small rural community. Horse carts like this are commonly used...
- Volunteer Photos
- Rural South African School's World Cup Kick-Off Party!
- Celebrations; Sports; Teachers and students; Youth; Schools
- A grade 5 class in a rural primary school near Vryburg, South Africa gathered eagerly for their long-anticipated World Cup party put on by their class educator and village Peace Corps Volunteer. The festivities included delicious cakes, vuvuzelas,...
- Volunteer Photos
- Rural scene in North Cholla Province, Korea
- Transportation; Agriculture
- Farmers have stacked the rice straw on the cart for conveyance to the nearest village. It will be used for the thatching of roofs and other purposes. North Cholla Province, spring 1974.
- Volunteer Photos
- Rural Guatemalan Youth HIV/AIDS Prevention Workshop
- HIV/AIDS
- 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...
- Volunteer Photos
- Rural Decay
- Terrain; Architecture
- Buildings that are no longer used often are left to decay.
- Volunteer Photos
- Road from Home to Work through Banana Fields in Rural Jamaica
- Terrain
- 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.
- Volunteer Photos
- Rio Paraguay
- Terrain; Rural sites; Transportation
- I took this photo on May 16th, 2008 in Alto Paraguay. The Rio Paraguay is an active lifeline for the people of the region, but it was a picture of serenity at this moment.
- Volunteer Photos
- Peace Corps Volunteer (April 1968)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (April 1968).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (September 1968)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (September 1968).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (October 1968)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (October 1968).
- Newsletters
- Peace Corps Volunteer (November 1968)
- Newsletters--1960s
- Full text of the Peace Corps Volunteer (November 1968).
- Newsletters