Inspecting a pond with other aquaculture (fisheries) volunteers. We grew Tilapia. This was part of our orientation to farming in Zaire, prior to language training at Bukavu, Lake Kivu. 1980
I took this picture in August 2010 during my pre-service training in Cambodia. This photo shows a group of my fellow Volunteers practicing yoga during some free time in one Volunteer's host family's wooden home.
Peace Corps Volunteer Paul Lux yawns at an early morning meeting during the one-year in-country conference of Honduras Group 13 at La Ceiba, Honduras. May, 1970.
Pre-service Training (PST); Environment; Water and Sanitation
This is a photo of a field base training that I set up in my village Koporo-pen. We were doing a top well repair and another Volunteer and I took that opportunity to train Peace Corps trainees as well as our own village masons. We brought some...
Sina, Dan, Faiva, Donna, Vave and Olepa waiting outside the government building as Dan & Donna headed out to assignment after training in Nukulaelae, Tuvalu. October 1982
This photo was taken on September 12, 2009, as our group of MAK-14 trainees were on our way to Skopje, Macedonia and there were connecting flight delays.
This photo was taken in Armenia during pre-service training, during the summer of 2011. It is 6 of the Volunteers in the training village, walking home together after a long day at school, learning Armenian.
These are the faces of experience- my Volunteer trainers who we thought of as all-knowing. Some so great that their photos are on the 8th floor wall at PC HQ.
On the left, the boys show the area just before groundbreaking on one of four vocational training buildings. On the right, one of the first photos of the new shops ready to be filled with tools, equipment, and young minds and hands.
Group photo of the trained village health team members holding their training certificates and wearing the VHT t-shirts. Trainings are held at the village level to alleviate the challenges faced by participants due to transport. This training was...
Here, I'm teaching at a village health team training about diarrhea and dehydration and how to prepare oral rehydration solution (ORS). The village health team program is an initiative of the Ministry of Health to train local residents in...
This is what I viewed while on my bike riding home from another Volunteer’s house during pre-service training (PST). People would sleep in this house during short grain rice season to protect their fields from whomever or whatever would damage...
Celebrations; Food and meals; Pre-service Training (PST)
Peace Corps Ukraine Group 39 arrived in Ukraine and was welcomed with traditional bread, dipped in salt. In this picture, trainees are dipping their pieces of the bread in salt.
With a fellow Volunteer's host mother and little host sister, we pose in our teaching clothes beside (and on top of) "Good Camel," named because she was much nicer -- and less spitting -- than the other camel on the compound. 2007
Full text of Sargent Shriver's briefing to the press held on March 6, 1961. Shriver introduced members of the original Peace Corps task force, and fielded topics on a range of questions about the initial plans for how the Peace Corps would operate.
This is from a training of health workers in Guinea that I supervised with my partner organization, Population Services International. The health workers were trained in how to advise those who came into their regional health centers and hospitals...
This photo was taken during a week-long workshop for Village Health Workers in Vanuatu. The purposes of the workshop were to provide Village Health Workers (who work in very remote areas) with education on HIV/AIDS and to train them in tools and...