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This is the first World Map Project Map in what was to become a standard Peace Corps activity worldwide. It is in the school in Hondo Valle, Dominican Republic. Volunteer Barbara Jo White is working with two high school students on the map. It was...
This photo was taken in 2006 at the district primary school, in the province of Ra in Fiji, where I served from 2005-2007. After completing our World Map project at Saivou District School, I wanted the kids to see themselves how much they had...
This photo was taken inside a classroom at a men's prison in July of 2008 in Concepcion, Paraguay. I organized a world map mural with eight prisoners who were working on achieving their high school diplomas while they finished their prison...
This world map was created by a Peace Corps Volunteer and the students of Telhei Primary School, Nereingingman Village, Mota Lava Island, Vanuatu. The photo was taken in 2006 before the students started restoration to repair fading and chipping...
This photo was taken at my school in March 2011. This was the moment we finished painting the world map after working on it for three weeks braving the boiling sun and monsoon rains! The students in the photo are grade 10 students who were helping...
Adams Bunbunke Yao, the health/water sanitation technical trainer, works with students from the northern region of Ghana on a map of Ghana at the school. (July 2010)
The children spent a lot of time in my house, so I kept crayons and paper around. When they asked me about where I came from, I told them I had lived near Mount St. Helens, which had erupted a few years earlier. This is one of my neighbors and...
Community and municipal development Volunteer Sean stands together with his counterparts at the unveiling of their new commune map. Sean and his counterparts worked togehter to fund and paint this map that is displayed at the mayor's office....
The photo was taken on November 1st, 2010 at a high school in the Philippines. During the semester break, I worked with four artistic Filipino students on this world map mural. This wall is located at the entrance of the school, where students...
This picture of me was taken by another Peace Corps Volunteer, Mallory, while we worked on the World Map Project in her village on June 9,2011. The little boy with me is Yaya Tourey, and helped us organize our materials as we worked on the...
Mari, a YD volunteer, created a cross sector project for her Dar cheebub (youth activity center) with the assistance of health volunteers and other YD volunteers. The project was to paint murals representing AIDS, world peace, Moroccan pride,...
In 2011 we received funds to create a world map in our community resource center. With the help of many hands we finished a map for the whole village to use.
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.