A Volunteer teaches English to the professionals of SENA (National Agricultural Learning Center). Part of the purpose is to aid them in reading technical manuals for American equipment that are only written in English. She is also trying to develop...
Photo is from the personal collection of my father, the late Dr. Kauffman who served as the Peace Corps First Chief of the Division of Training from 1961-63.
Kauffman traveled with Shriver to Africa in Nov. 1962
Photo taken with my father's camera...
The education abroad office at UNL hosted an open house on Tuesday, February 26th. RPCVs from Palau, China, South Africa, Morocco, Benin, Moldova and Nepal gathered to share their stories. Students, community members and friends all attended as...
I returned to Thailand for a surprise reunion with my former students at a restaurant in Bangkok. I taught them English in the southern town of Pattalung in 1973. After so many years, I wondered what became of them and whether my teaching them made...
Pictured are members of Colombia V, a rural community development group that trained at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. After the photo op, the Volunteers sang the Colombian National Anthem for the press and Colombian dignitaries.
I would say that something started to happen between Adam and I while riding across Guinea in a bush taxi. The car ride back to Conakry was 15 hours and we held hands during the entire trip while we talked about home. We got married 9 months after...
I took this photo on the Pacific shore of Tumaco, NariƱo, Colombia in 1966. These are stilt homes of poor African-Colombians in the town. They have no toilets and other common domestic utilities/conveniences.
I took this photo in the town of La Cruz, Narino, Colombia in 1966. Seeing and talking to this girl in my town, I thought I should take a snap of her. Amid rural poverty and hardship, this girl just radiated happiness and well-being.
This 1995 photo shows a lighter moment in my fifth form classroom at School #97 in Karaganda, Kazakhstan. We were learning how to make rabbit ears on ourselves and our neighbors while posing for photos.
Me with a stateside friend (who was also a Volunteer in Nepal 66-68) and a Sierra Leonean friend. We were on the way to his home village for a holiday visit during the Christmas break in 1977.
The National Folk Festival in Albania is held every 4-5 years in the southern city of Gjirokaster, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Hosted in the city's Ottoman era castle, Albanian performers from every district of the country as well as from abroad...
This photo was taken in August or September 2005, during TL 5's training in Balibar, East Timor. I (the trainee on the left) and a fellow trainee spent time teaching the local boys how to play ultimate frisbee in the schoolyard after our training...
In this photo, taken in a schoolyard in Balibar, East Timor (August 2005), a group of local boys are playing ultimate frisbee, which I and a few other trainees taught them. It was my project to teach then the game, to translate the rules into...