This photo was taken on 19/07/2011, in a small village in the Rhodope Moutains, which is home to a minority population of Bulgarian Muslims and is a rural and poor area. These students are my 5th-8th grade summer school students who have just begun...
This photo was taken in April of 2010 in a rural village in Morocco. I am in the center of the photo, and am surrounded by my host family siblings (from right) Hajiba, Raja and little Mohammed in the front. From the first day I met my family, the...
In the photo, I was teaching two of my host sisters, Samira and Hafsa, about how in America we make wishes on dandelions. We live in the Sahara desert but near an Oasis. Here the children know every plant, herb and even weed that grows. They always...
This is a photo of Tomarjay & myself during an afternoon football game. At the time, Tomarjay was a grade 6 student at the primary school. He and I traveled with out school team to the neighboring village to watch the boys football match. Here,...
My first Christmas back in America. I am wearing my teaching uniform from my Islamic High School in Indonesia. My grandchildren Talon, Kira & Arlo are wearing Muslim prayer caps and a jilbab for young girls. Grandma Oma Colleen Young is telling her...
Full-text of the February 1, 1961 draft of Warren Wiggins' essay 'The Towering Task.' This essay discusses the early history of the concept of the Peace Corps and outlines Wiggins' suggestions for implementing Peace Corps at a starting level of...
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.