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...
Shriver, Sargent; Master's International (MI); Universities; State-side training;
Full text of Sargent Shriver's February 9, 1962 statement prepared for the Student Editor's Conference on International Affairs held at the Overseas Press Club in New York City. The statement focuses on efforts by Peace Corps and its partner...
Traditional dress; teachers and students; Education
This Volunteer markets cloth and vegetable products, and also is setting up demonstration farms in the Ntonso area. Here he watches craftsmen make Adinka cloth. January, 1980
These nomadic Fulani/Peuhl women have come to Tchamba's weekly Sunday market. They are dressed in their best with beautifully embroidered colorful clothes, brightly colored scarves, multicolored beaded jewelry, beadwork on their head and tatoos....
Schools; Teachers and students; Work; Celebrations; Traditional dress
This picture was taken on May 31st, 2007 on the last day of school at Zhovkva Secondary School Number 1 in Western Ukraine. These three girls have just finished first grade and are wearing traditional Ukrainian clothing. They're holding flowers...
This is a photo that I took of the groundbreaking ceremony in April 2004 for the new Youth Training Center in Lalmonirhat, Bangladesh. It was a grand ceremony with everyone getting dressed up for the local member of parliament.
Children; Youth; Traditional dress; Dance; Celebrations
Niueans love their fiafias (parties, celebrations.) The kids from my village, Avatele, are dressed here for their dance performance for a village celebration. I think this particular one was celebrating the accomplishments of 2 Avatele villagers-...
A photo of me with a group of friends after everyone was dressing up for some photos before I went home for a vacation (I was sort of extended family) eating most of my meals and spending a lot of free time with this group and their husbands and...
This photo was taken during the Annual National Youth Celebration Day in Niue, South Pacific. The youth from many villages made their own rafts and raced them in the ocean (our raft won!) Another part of the day was a ladies' and men's vaka canoe...
Taken in April, 2011 in Guatemala. My host sister, myself, and sister in-law (blonde) on the roof of my house, with the town (like Hollywood) sign in the background. Celebrating culture, womanhood...and clothes!