I am in the middle of helping create bathrooms for an elementary school of 200 students in Morocco. This is a view taken from the top of the bathroom, looking down. This picture was taken by a Moroccan volunteer using my camera. The volunteers are...
I am in the middle of helping create bathrooms for the elementary school of 200 students. This is one of the volunteers that came to help out (June 2011). Amazingly, 11 volunteers showed up that day and the roof was finished in one day!
This photo was taken of a community home-based care volunteer in Mookane, Botswana on World AIDS Day December 1, 2004. These volunteers visit HIV/AIDS and other ill patients in their home bringing them supplies and friendship.
In conjunction with the Peace Corps 50th Anniversary and the Pinyasan (Pineapple) Festival in the Philippines, Peace Corps Volunteers conducted an "Adopt-a-Classroom" event on June 16, 2011, in which 60 out-of-school youth were taught about the...
Huge smiles announce how much fun these five year old kids in preschool at the local Neighborhood Care Point (NCP) are having while learning their colors and numbers through fun games and coloring books. These kids come from families that don't...
Each year, South Africa celebrates Madiba Day. Each South African is asked to do 67 minutes of community service in honor of Nelson Mandela's 67 years of fighting for the rights of humanity.
I am in the middle of helping create bathrooms for the elementary school of 200 students. This is one of the volunteers that came to help out. Amazingly, 11volunteers showed up that day and the roof was finished in one day!
Volunteerism; Small Project Assistance (SPA); Architecture; Host community friends
I took this photo on-site in Bishkek, Kyrgyz Republic on August 12th, 2006 during a joint project with the local Habitat for Humanity. The small project teamed Peace Corps Volunteers with local friends to encourage volunteerism within their own...
Vaughn, Jack; Peace Corps Directors; Volunteerism; VISTA
This February 13, 1968 press release outlines Peace Corps Director Jack Vaughn's suggestions for increasing domestic volunteerism in the United States.
Special Supplement to the Peace Corps Times (August, 1991)-- Leadership Perspective: a reflection by Peace Corps directors of thirty years of volunteer service worldwide.