This photo was taken in the winter of 2009. Even though the temperature can get pretty cold in the Winter it does not stop the children from playing outside. Sledding is the favored pastime when the snow hits the ground.
In early June 2009, a worker uses a chainsaw to cut logs to length for wood stoves. In certain regions of the country, Albanian families order several cubic meters of wood in the summer to be shortened, split, and dry so they will have enough wood...
This photo was taken on November 24, 2007, during my second week at my permanent site in Aksukent, Kazakhstan. My host mother and host sisters worked all day to chop cabbage and carrots into this huge pile. They then added salt and pepper and...
As someone who has lived in Los Angeles for 20 years, the Ukrainian winters were quite different than anything I had experienced before. This photo was taken in January 2005 from my balcony in Khmelnitsky, Ukraine.
I took this photo in December 2008, during the freezing cold -40 Celsius winter as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mongolia. I tanned a few sheep skins in order to add some warmth and cushion to my apartment's fold-out chairs.
Full text of a brochure aimed at recruiting medical doctors to serve as Peace Corps staff physicians. Discusses ways that Peace Corps doctors provided support to both Volunteers and host communities throughout the world. Although no exact date of...
Full text of a brochure highlighting Peace Corps programs and activities in the field of education. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure is likely from 1969.
Marketing campaigns; Volunteer recruitment; Training sites; Technical training
Full text of a brochure that discusses Peace Corps' approach to training and how it evolved over the first decade of the agency's history. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure is likely from 1969.