My first Christmas back in America. I am wearing my teaching uniform from my Islamic High School in Indonesia. My grandchildren Talon, Kira & Arlo are wearing Muslim prayer caps and a jilbab for young girls. Grandma Oma Colleen Young is telling her...
This photo was taken on August 6th, 2011. It was my birthday and me and a group of other Volunteers were heading from Nairobi to Mombasa on a night train. We all woke up at dawn to hang out the windows and watch the landscape roll by.
This is a photo of a group of trainees as we head to the training center in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic in Feb of 2001. This is typical public transportation in the city, a crowded "gua gua" where there's always room for one more!
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.
Host community friends; Volunteers; Traditional dress
February 2011. I got my hair braided in Cinkasse in northern Togo. I had a great time talking and laughing with these two ladies, two wives of the same husband, while they did their work. Braids and wigs are the style there, as women often have...
The left side of the photo shows Bill Miles as a Peace Corps teacher in Niger between 1977 and 1979. The right side depicts his daughter Arielle Miles, currently a Peace Corps teacher in Kenya. The picture of Bill was snapped at the CEG (middle...
Wendy and I (Theresa) usually took the kids in our village - Avatele - each week during the Church service over to the Pastor's house to do some activities with them. Church was a very important part of village life and there were two services...
Ambassador James Warlick swears in the newest group of volunteers, Bulgaria-27, in Vratsa, Bulgaria as part of Peace Corps Bulgaria's 20th anniversary celebration. June 10th, 2011.
Peace Corps Volunteers Cale and Sara Reeves found their favorite spot to relax and rejuvenate at Jane's Beach Fales in the village of Manase on the big island of Savai'i. Their trips there were infrequent, as it took almost eight hours to travel by...
Host community friends; Traditional dress; Children
While backpacking around the village of Illela, where I lived, I met a Tuareg extended family living in the wadi. We became good friends, and I frequently spent my Sunday's with them, playing with the children, telling stories, and drinking camel's...
Several Albanian Volunteers sitting on the remains of a Roman colosseum in Apollonia. They came from all over the country to celebrate another PCV's birthday.
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.
This is a photo two Volunteers serving in Uruguay who travelled to Buenos Aires for a weekend when Peace Corps Washington was initiating Argentina Program. 1991-1992
Two Rural Development Volunteers in Guinea (1964) are having lunch on the road. They had stopped in a village, bought something to eat, traveled a bit more, and then stopped to have lunch. They were new volunteers and appear to be somewhat amused...
Featured in this photo are Tom Dunn, Doug TenEyck, Bill Moseley and Rick Heffernan. We were Volunteers in Mali from 1987-89. We gathered in Douenza, Mali in late December, 1987 to celebrate Christmas together.