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    • Child Care

    • Child Care

    • Medicine; Nurses; Maternal and child health

    • The Peace Corps staff nurse provides medical support to Volunteers in her region of Sierra Leone. Here she discusses child care with another Volunteer and local mothers. 1968
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    • Medical Support

    • Medical Support

    • Medicine; Nurses

    • The Peace Corps staff nurse provides medical support to Volunteers in her region of Sierra Leone. She and another Volunteer talk with women about using a drying table for their dishes, rather than drying them on the ground. 1968
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    • Secondary Education Teacher

    • Secondary Education Teacher

    • Education

    • This Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Education as a secondary education teacher. Here she is shown working with her students in reading English literature. April, 1976
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    • Secondary Education Teacher

    • Secondary Education Teacher

    • Education

    • This Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Education as a secondary education teacher. Here she is shown working with her students in reading English literature. April, 1976
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    • Agricultural Development

    • Agricultural Development

    • Agriculture; Community development

    • This Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Agriculture and works in swamp development and cooperative development. Here he holds the daughter of one of the farmers who owns a section of the swamp the Volunteer helped irrigate. April, 1976
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    • Agricultural Development

    • Agricultural Development

    • Agriculture; Community development

    • This Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Agriculture and works in swamp development and cooperative development. Here he talks to farmers who are bringing in rice to the new rice coop. He supervised the construction of the coop store. April,...
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    • Construction of Roads

    • Construction of Roads

    • Community development; Agriculture

    • This Volunteer is part of a crew who helps in the construction of laterite feeder roads. The roads are designed to make it easier to get crops to market and thus to increase food production. This Volunteer is supervising the construction of...
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    • Thresher Demonstration

    • Thresher Demonstration

    • Agriculture

    • This Volunteer, a mechanical engineer, works on the design and construction of simple agricultural machines in Bo. Here, he is shown demonstrating a thresher. April, 1976
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    • Medical Support

    • Medical Support

    • Health

    • This Volunteer works with patients in the Masanga Leprosy Hospital on craft projects which they can do to pass the time and also earn a little money. She also handles the marketing of the crafts. Here she is shown talking with one of the leprosy...
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    • Secondary Education Teacher

    • Secondary Education Teacher

    • Education; Agriculture

    • This Volunteer, shown with some of his students, is one of three Peace Corps Volunteer teachers at the Boy’s Technical and Agriculture Science Secondary School in Lunsar, Sierra Leone. June, 1978
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    • Teachers

    • Teachers

    • Education

    • These Volunteers are both teachers at St. Francis School in Makeni, Sierra Leone. The volunteers are pictured on the front porch of their house with some of the students that one Volunteer is helping to tutor on his own time. June, 1978
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    • Rural Swamp Rice Program

    • Rural Swamp Rice Program

    • Agriculture; Community development

    • This Volunteer works with the Rural Swamp Rice Program in Sierra Leone. He is shown with a boy from one of the nearby villages. June, 1978
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    • Teacher Education

    • Teacher Education

    • Education

    • This Volunteer teaches social studies at the Bo Teachers’ College in Sierra Leone. In addition to teaching, he also supervises the practice teachers at their school sites. June, 1978
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