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- A Traveler on the Road to Haik
- Transportation; Terrain
- The roads leading into Haik, Ethiopia were made of dirt and rock. The rains would come and often wash them away. The winds would often blow them away. Yet the views were spectacular and the people traveling on them were charming and warm. ...
- Volunteer Photos
- Stuck in the Mud
- Transportation; Terrain
- This picture was taken toward the end of 2006 outside of my village of Antsampanimahazo, Madagascar. My village was mostly a "hike site", meaning that the only way to get in was to hike 7 miles up and over a mountain (about a 2 hour strenous...
- Volunteer Photos
- Madagascar's Hauts Plateaux
- Terrain
- This picture was taken toward the end of 2006 and is a picture of Madagascar's Hauts Plateaux, or highlands. The picture was taken near Antsampanimahazo, Madagascar and depicts the tiered rice fields that the Malagasy build into the mountains.
- Volunteer Photos
- El Paisnal, El Salvador
- Host community friends; Work; Youth development; Terrain
- This photo was taken atop a hill my students climbed as part of a teambuilding workshop. We held on to one another as we climbed "Cerro Chino" for nearly nearly 2 hours.
- Volunteer Photos
- Journal Writing
- Housing; Terrain
- Self portrait of daily life in my village. Every afternoon I would sit in the doorway of my rondavel and journal, read or play the guitar as I watched the sunset over the Drakensburg mountains in Lesotho.
- Volunteer Photos
- Basotho Herd Boy
- Host families; Animals; Terrain
- Abuti, a herd boy, on his donkey collecting corn feed for the cows. This 14 year old boy spends most days walking across the mountains in the Senqu river valley of Lesotho, herding my host family's cow, donkeys and sheep.
- Volunteer Photos
- The Peace Corps in Chile, 1961 - 1968
- 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...
- Historical Papers and Articles
- Statement by Sargent Shriver before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, June 22, 1961
- Cross-cultural transition; Volunteer selection;
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's June 22, 1961 statement before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Peace Corps Factbook and Directory, 1968
- Directories
- Full-text of the 1968 Peace Corps Factbook and Directory. Includes brief descriptions of the Peace Corps programs in exsitence at the time.
- Brochures
- The Peace Corps staff physician: an adventure in medicine
- Marketing campaigns; Doctors; Medicine
- Full text of a brochure aimed at recruiting medical doctors to serve as Peace Corps staff physicians. Discusses ways that Peace Corps doctors provided support to both Volunteers and host communities throughout the world. Although no exact date of...
- Brochures
- Magic Moments on Mount Mulanje
- Host community friends; Terrain
- Volunteer Stories
- Dry Season
- Climate; Terrain
- Volunteer Stories
- Digging for Medicine
- HIV/AIDS; Health; Water and sanitation; Resiliency
- Volunteer Stories