Speech prepared for delivery before the annual luncheon, YWCA Board of Directors,
October 18, 1961, Waldorf, Astoria, New York City.
Women in the Peace Corps
by Sargent Shriver.
This Volunteer works to improve water management in a Tamashek camp on an island in the Niger River Delta. She is shown helping villagers unload supplies, which she will use to construct three wells in her village. They will transport these...
This Volunteer is an itinerant agent for health education in Cameroon. Here he works with Eyo village health committee to complete the banking of mud walls to protec tthe spring water supply.
This Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. Here, he inspects a latrine as part of his daily inspection program to improve health and sanitary conditions.
This Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. Here, he inspects a latrine as part of his daily inspection program to improve health and sanitary conditions.
This Volunteer works in Tangassane as a water resource project manager. He is shown seated with village chief, Mohammane Adaa, in his mud-walled home. They drink the traditional tea as they discuss the plans for construction of three new wells.
Water and sanitation; Education; Knight Foundation
This Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of health as a health education volunteer, working with village health committees and independent groups. Here she teaches community children the importance of washing hands as part of family hygiene...
A Volunteer involved in gardening and agro-forestry, joins a former Volunteer in Mali in a trip to her island village of Issafaye. In the photo, they examine an old wheel-barrow pump, which they will repair to use as a hand pump to irrigate rice...
A Volunteer involved in gardening and agro-forestry, joins a former Volunteer in Mali in a trip to her island village of Issafaye. In the photo, they examine an old wheel-barrow pump, which they will repair to use as a hand pump to irrigate rice...
This Volunteer works with a team, which includes a gardener and a forester, to construct village wells in Baka-Were. In this photo, he and the village gardener examine a garden well being constructed with “dutch bricks”, a design developed by a...
A group of Peace Corps Volunteers are pictured crossing a bridge, typical of those in the semi-tropical monsoon country of East Pakistan. The small river serves as bathing facility, sewage system, laundry area and source of water supply for the...