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.
We took this picture after receiving our new soccer uniforms. The girls had written letters to local establishments, and a fast food restaurant bought them shirts and shorts. The girls on the team were able to travel to other local communities a...
Netball is a sport similar to basketball, but played by mostly women in Europe. It is non-contact and there is no dribbling. My team from St. Pauls Sports and Culture Association is pictured here. Our 2009 Grenada Netball Association (GNA) season...
In Moldova, the American Embassy puts on a party to celebrate the 4th of July every year. Both Americans and Moldovans are invited to partake in the festivities, and it usually brings along some local news stations. Here, Sam, a fellow Volunteer,...
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...
The photo was taken during an Information, Education, Communication (IEC) campaign the Philippines. The kids in the photo are 4th year high school students along with the Volunteer who is leading them through a a team building exercise....
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.
This photo was taken in April of 2010 in a rural village in Morocco. I had just been taught for the first time by my host sister, Soukaina, how to knot individual threads to weave a rug, and they allowed me to do two entire rows of colored knots in...
Volunteer Tara and her counterpart work together to provide workshops to hospital staff at a public hospital in Nicaragua. The workshops focus on ensuring equal treatment of HIV positive patients, often times the exception rather than the rule...
This photo was taken in Togo, West Africa in the village of Pagala at the Peace Corp training site. This was a camp (Camp Espoir, or Hope in English) for children and youth who were infected or affected by HIV/AIDS. A large majority of the campers...
Peace Corps volunteers decided to start a softball league where classes of students could play against each other. This photo is of my 8th grade students at a tournament in Szarvas, Hungary. Our softball equipment was collected by people from my ...
A history of the Peace Corps in Chile, prepared on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the US Peace Corps, for distribution at the reunion of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers who served in Chile, hosted by the Embassy of Chile in Washington DC...
A retired American judge vacationed frequently on Anguilla in the 1980's. He had been a big supporter of softball in the US and wanted to do the same on Anguilla. He organized a league of both men and women teams. The Stoney Ground Rockies were a...