This photo was taken after a week-long training of trainers on the topic of HIV/AIDS and behavior change communication, which included interviews of local sex workers, and a testimonial from a PLWH. This pictures is of Blake Van Fleteren, one of...
This photo was taken on Thursday, May 24, after a week long training on HIV/AIDS and behavior change communication. The photo is comprised of all participants, both PCVs and Filipino counterparts, along with the facilitators, again both PCVs and...
This paper explores the life of a teacher, John S. Noffsinger, who arrived in Manila in either late May or early June 1910, and taught for two years in Bayombong, Nueva Viscaya.
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...
This photo from August 24th, 2007 was taken in my site of Ruta'i, Torin, Caaguazu in Paraguay. It is of a boy loading an oxcart with sugarcane that will be used to feed other animals.
The school kids in Costa Rica, 1981, taught me the national dance of Costa Rica. Since I didn't have the dress, they taught me the guy's part - so I got to have a mustache. Then I taught them square dancing to John Denver's music.
I had wanted to get an Islamic writing board to bring home and show American children what is used in Muslim schools in Sierra Leone to teach Arabic and learn passages from the Qur’an. No one was willing to part with theirs so I bought a new one...
Full text of a brochure highlighting Peace Corps programs and activities in the fields of agriculture, animal husbandry, horticulture, and forestry. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure is likely from 1969.
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...
Volunteer works with a USAID-funded central nursery in Djenne. In this photo, she plants trees with school boys in a garden of the Franco-Arab Primary School in Djenne. She will oversee the creation of a school garden well to be funded by the...
Fisheries Volunteers in Zaire/Congo in 1980 upon arriving in country, took a quick tour of internal regions of the country in order to visit other Volunteers, farmers and fish ponds. The children in the villages always were smiling.
A young Zambian watched as I took photographs of the various surroundings of village life. When I turned and pointed my lens his way, he quickly turned away, pretending he had never been looking at me. His posture and serious face in front of...
I took this photo in Ecuador while walking to visit a family farm. The kids are all students, and were making the 30 minute walk home from school, as they do every day.
Full text of a brochure highlighting Peace Corps programs and activities and opportunities for service. Although no exact date of publication is given, the brochure appears to be from 1981.
The design for this 10th anniversary Peace Corps commemorative stamp has its origin as an award winning poster designed by David Battle. The stamp was issued on February 11, 1972.