After an environmental trash pick-up activity and lesson in Ait Ben Haddou, Morocco, we’ve divided the students in groups and asked them to present what they have learned from the activity and how they envision a healthy environment to be.
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.
Two young dar chebab (youth center) students in Morocco participated in creating an art mural for the dar chebab where Volunteer Elizabeth Chon taught the students how to paint properly and the meaning behind the art mural.
Our Health Nutrition team taught at a Gram Sevika Basic Training School for young people who would become rural elementary teachers. One month we taught courses in health, nutrition, vegetable gardening, and making of a smokeless chula...
During a break from a Peace Corps meeting in Iringa, Tanzania, a fellow Volunteer took the opportunity to teach a few of the local kids the "fist bump".
My assignment was as a manager of a print shop. We created flanograph pictures to teach women about the natal process and others to teach men about a cooperative project to grow peanuts. I spoke French to the Nigerien and English to the Nigerian,...
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...