Wendy and I (Theresa) usually took the kids in our village - Avatele - each week during the Church service over to the Pastor's house to do some activities with them. Church was a very important part of village life and there were two services...
This photo was taken during a U.S. school group's visit to Ben Guerir. During the visit, the group of young people from Ben Guerir and young people from America talked, played games, and shared lunch at the house of a local youth center member. ...
I took this photograph of my school in 2000 after I returned to Cameroon to continue to assist the students. G.S.S. Tatum, now Government High School, is located in Bui Division in the Northwest region of Cameroon.
This is a photo of morning assembly at the flag pole where students received their daily "pep" talk (sometimes a scolding - such as "no more trysts at the dump pit"). The girls are in yellow and the boys in green.
During the Spring, I travelled with our middle school students to Kyoung Ju, the ancient capital of South Korea, and took this photo in front of the Emile Bell, or "mommy" bell, which was cast in 771 AD.
The photo shows me reading a very simple English picture book to a group of elementary school girls in southern rural Nepal in the town of Bharatpur. The photo was taken sometime in 2001.
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.
Full-text of the February 1, 1961 draft of Warren Wiggins' essay 'The Towering Task.' This essay discusses the early history of the concept of the Peace Corps and outlines Wiggins' suggestions for implementing Peace Corps at a starting level of...
Full text of a brochure featuring the recollections of several notable former Peace Corps staff members and Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, including Harris Wofford, Donna Shalala, Maureen Orth and others. Although no exact date of publication is...