I painted this world map mural on the outside of the primary school in my assigned community of La Cruz de Abangares, Costa Rica. Several of the students painted the Costa Rica and Guanacaste (province) flags next to the world map. Together with...
I painted this world map mural on the outside of the primary school in my assigned community of La Cruz de Abangares, Costa Rica. It has every country in the world in Spanish, as well as inspirational quotes on the sides that I took from Martin...
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.
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...
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?...
This photo was taken in San Francisco la Union, Guatemala in 2009. I was serving as a rural home preventive health Volunteer. The health center, local midwives and myself put together three community wide raffles to raise funds to pruchase an...
Press and media; Peace Corps Directors; Kennedy, John F.;
Full text of the March 4, 1961 White House press release announcing the appointment of Sargent Shriver as first Director of the Peace Corps. Also provides brief biographies of early Peace Corps staff members.
'Por, para y con la gente' is an expression in Spanish that means 'by, for and with the people.' It is a philosophy of sustainable development that involves the people in the process of their own change - and it is the process we are using where I...