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- Hitching a Ride
- Transportation
- This photo was taken on the road to my site of Kiffa, Mauritania. Having visited a fellow volunteer in the next town over of Geuro, we decided to try and bypass the usual taxi fee by riding on top of a semi. We had seen it done before by locals...
- Volunteer Photos
- Going to the Bandiagara Market
- Transportation
- This photo was taken on our way to the Bandiagara market. I traveled with another volunteer Victor Quintana and friends from my village Koporo-Pen on their donkey carts. They were traveling to Bandiagara to sell their millet grains. Koporo-pen...
- Volunteer Photos
- Back Roads of Canje, Guyana
- Transportation
- New Amsterdam, Guyana is below sea level. The only place with any elevation is the Canje Bridge between New Amsterdam and Canje. Part of my exercise routine includes scaling the bridge a few times a week. Most people travel by foot, bicycle,...
- Volunteer Photos
- Where the Heck is Helena?
- Transportation; Housing
- Traveling by taxi from the capital of Guyana, Georgetown, to my new site in New Amsterdam, I flew by this road sign. Helena?? That's my hometown in Montana! It's pointing in the right direction, but I reckon it's a village here. I don't recall...
- Volunteer Photos
- Stuck in the Mud
- Transportation; Terrain
- This picture was taken toward the end of 2006 outside of my village of Antsampanimahazo, Madagascar. My village was mostly a "hike site", meaning that the only way to get in was to hike 7 miles up and over a mountain (about a 2 hour strenous...
- Volunteer Photos
- Hospital Administrator Traveling in a Dugout Canoe
- Transportation; Hospitals; Health; Disease
- This Peace Corps Volunteer works as a hospital administrator for the only hospital in the San Blas Islands off the coast of Panama. As the hospital is very short staffed, she does everything from keeping records to giving x-rays. She also runs a...
- Agency Photos
- Getting to Sur
- Transportation; Pre-service Training (PST)
- Staff Stories
- Statement of Sargent Shriver concerning Peace Corps and the United Nations, May 1962
- United Nations Volunteers
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's May, 1962 statement concerning inquiries: "to what extent, whether either in theory or in practice, members of the Peace Corps are working for, controlled by, or guided by agencies or employees of the United Nations?...
- Press Briefings
- Making a world of difference: the toughest job you'll ever love
- Volunteer recruitment
- Full text of a 1997 recruiting brochure.
- Brochures
- Peace Corps Volunteer Application, 1968
- Volunteer recruitment; Volunteer selection
- Full text of a 1968 Peace Corps application.
- Brochures
- Peace Corps Application, 1993
- Volunteer recruitment; Volunteer selection
- Full text of a 1993 Peace Corps application.
- Brochures
- Latrine Inspection
- Water and sanitation; Health
- This Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. Here, he inspects a latrine as part of his daily inspection program to improve health and sanitary conditions.
- Agency Photos
- Covering Pipes
- Water and sanitation; Health
- This Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. Here, he works with local kids to cover pipes installed for the water system.
- Agency Photos
- Latrine Inspection
- Water and sanitation; Health
- This Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. Here, he inspects a latrine as part of his daily inspection program to improve health and sanitary conditions.
- Agency Photos
- A Towering Task (February 1, 1961 draft)
- Wiggins, Warren
- 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...
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Director of the Mother's Club
- Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD); Maternal and child health
- A prominent figure of the town of Tigualo, this woman is the director of the mothers’ club and owner of the only store in the town.
- Agency Photos
- Women in the Peace Corps
- Women in Peace Corps
- Full-text of an early Peace Corps marketing brochure--copyright date is unknown but it appears to be from the 1960s.
- Brochures
- Women in the Peace Corps
- Women in Peace Corps
- Full-text of an early Peace Corps marketing brochure--copyright date is unknown but it appears to be from the 1960s.
- Brochures
- Women in the Peace Corps
- Women's movement
- 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.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Programme for Adolescent Mothers
- Health
- Dec 2009 - The Programme for Adolescent Mothers. The students who attend the program hosted a Fun Day at the end of the term. Here they were practicing yoga with their babies.
- Volunteer Photos