This photo was taken on July 9, 2011 in Bulgaria, with a group of four youth volunteers who were performing activities as a part of the Peace Corps' 20th/50th anniversary commemoration. In the photo the volunteers and I are attempting to make a...
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...
I was cutting down a new soccer field with some guys from my village. They told me to go grab my camera and take a few shots. The first person I saw when I got back was this boy named Richardo. He turned his head, sun blazing upon his gaze, and I...
Press and media; Peace Corps Directors; Kennedy, John F.;
Full text of the March 4, 1961 White House press release announcing the appointment of Sargent Shriver as first Director of the Peace Corps. Also provides brief biographies of early Peace Corps staff members.
I served as a small business development Volunteer in a rural village in Morocco. I worked with the local carpet weaving association and because all of the weavers were agrarian farmers, I spent a lot of time with the women in the fields. Every...