This photo was taken July 9, 2011 in Tryavna, Bulgaria, with a group of four volunteers who were taking part in Peace Corps' 20th/50th anniversary activities. The photo depicts a team building activity we are preparing to perform, and I am...
During a Soy Sana Chicas Brillantes, which is our version of G.L.O.W., mini conference in Dominican Republic I took a picture with my Deportes para la Vida (grassroots soccer) trainers who ran HIV/AIDS prevention games for the conference.
At the end of each of our teaching cycles the
basic training school would hold a celebration which consisted of a photograph, banquet, and entertainment. We Peace Corps Volunteers are seated with some of our students standing in Kurnool, Andhra...
Volunteerism; Small Project Assistance (SPA); Architecture; Host community friends
I took this photo on-site in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic on August 12th, 2006 during a joint project with the local Habitat for Humanity. The small project teamed Peace Corps Volunteers with local friends to encourage volunteerism within their own...
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.
Nurses; Medicine; Doctors; Disease; Health; Traditional medicine; Teachers and students; Work; Universities
A collection of letters written by Peace Corps Volunteers serving as community health nurses in Malaysia, Niger, Afghanistan, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), Turkey, Peru, Bolivia, India and Togo. No date is given, but the publication appears to...