This photo was taken in March 2011 at the Talumalu Market. Talumalu is a very big market and the center of things on Saturdays when everyone is doing their shopping. Mostly vegetables and produce of all kinds, but also available are Tongan...
The picture was taken by my home village, Tougouri, Burkina Faso. In the picture are my best-friend's mother (therefore MY grandmother) and my friend's son. The little boy is the smiliest and giggliest little boy ever created and his grandmother...
In June 2012 in L'viv on the same day as a EURO 2012 game was taking place in the city, my leadership club from school and the organization Prosvita partnered for an event. Prosvita organized a concert, while the leadership club implemented their...
Students from the local school in Piedra Alegre de Pital in Costa Rica show their country's location on a recently completed world map they helped create in the summer of 2010.
This picture was taken after a year of service, in June of 2004, when I went back to my training site in the community of Koujol, not far from Archaie, Haiti, to visit my host family. The little girl on the right, Kenya, was born during my 3...
This is a photo of my host mother (Aishe) and I. This was the first time we made byrek together. She was teaching me how to effectively roll thin layers of pastry dough for the byrek. The photo was taken March 20, 2010.
This photo was taken at the Belize Zoo. Peace Corps Volunteer Christen Eure assisted a special education class in a field trip to the zoo where this sign is. The zoo features only rescued animals indigenous to Belize. The student with Christen...
Vaccination day is a busy day at the "Case de Sante" (health hut) in Affem Kabye, Togo. The health hut did not have refrigeration so we did not stock vaccinations. Instead, the health workers from the hopsital in Tchamba (20 km away) would send us...
Bulgarians eat a lot beans. This picture was taken in late September after the pods of the beans had dried on the stalk. Ahmed is taking the pleasure of beating all of the dried beans out of their shells and after this labor intensive work they...
Vaccination day is a busy day at the "Case de Sante" (health hut) in Affem Kabye, Togo. The health hut did not have refrigeration so we did not stock vaccinations. Instead the health workers from the Hopsital in Tchamba (20 km away) would send us...
This photo is was taken at Uukwiyuushona Combined School on the 28th of June 2012 during HIV/AIDS Awareness Week, established by the government of Namibia. This photo was organized with the theme of reducing and eliminating stigma and...
Teachers are learning English, along with the students, through the Speak English Every Day program. They are reading one of the weekly dialogues created by Volunteer Carla Arnold (2011-2013) and her Thai co-teacher. The students are given...
I took this photo at my organization's World AIDS Day Awareness Campaign on December 2, 2011 in a village in South Africa. After the formal program of the day, different activites were organized to get the attendees of the event to think about the...
This photo was taken at the World AIDS Day event in a community in Swaziland. This group of young primary students are a part of the school's health club. They performed a drama about 'getting to zero' in terms of zero new infections, zero related...
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.
During training in July 2010, health/water sanitation Peace Corps trainees, Emma and Connor, are teaching a hand-washing song to primary school students in the northern region of Ghana.
A history of the Peace Corps in Chile, prepared on the occasion of the 50th Anniversary of the US Peace Corps, for distribution at the reunion of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers who served in Chile, hosted by the Embassy of Chile in Washington DC...