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- Garifuna cultural sharing
- Celebrations; Dance; Music
- The Garifuna are a resilient group of people who have held onto their culture, including language, music, and food in Belize, despite challenges. In this picture Garifuna people celebrate their heritage at their museum through a special dance and...
- Volunteer Photos
- Little Mariachi
- Music; Celebrations; Host community; traditional dress
- I took this photo in November, 2009 at the going away party for my site mate, Michael. The festivities included much traditional song and dance, which was led by this charming young boy singing a soulful mariachi tune.
- Volunteer Photos
- Singing in a yurt
- music; celebrations; traditional dress
- Miras, a 6th grader at Saumalkol Kazakh Secondary School in northern Kazakhstan, performs a song during a Nauryz celebration on March 22, 2011. Nauryz is the Kazakh New Year and is celebrated across the country with traditional activities like...
- Volunteer Photos
- Danny Plays For His Potatoes
- food and meals; host families; music
- A volunteer in Verin Getashen, Armenia, plays for his friend Vartan as he tends the fire for "puran gartofile" an Armenian specialty in the fall during the potato harvest. Potatoes are slow-cooked in a fire made from compacted cow manure and...
- Volunteer Photos
- Armenain Birthday
- music
- Loud duduk heavy music lifts everyone from their elbow-to-elbow packed benches to dance arms raised and with light feet. The women are tired and want to go home. This is a scene all too familiar in Armenia.
- Volunteer Photos
- APCD Antonio Dacak Playing Guitar
- Music
- In 1990 we had a combined Agriculture and Beekeeping In-service Training. After spending hours and hours learning about green manure and water filtration ditches, all in Spanish, highly technical and delivered by the Dean of the Agricultural...
- Volunteer Photos
- Judge for Culture Day
- Teachers and students; Dance; Music
- The Head of the English Department of our school, Cape Rodney, asked me to serve as one of the judges of the school's Culture Day. The students performed dances and songs from their own cultural heritage - there were about 8 different language...
- Volunteer Photos
- Steel Pan
- Camps and Clubs; Teachers and Students; Music
- This picture was taken at an Expo put on by the St. Lucia Peace Corps volunteers to display what Peace Corps is all about. During the expo some of us volunteers played the national anthems with a Lucian steel pan group that we joined. Afterward we...
- Volunteer Photos
- Kurdish Wedding
- Weddings; Music; Dance
- Taken in October 1969 in Kangavar, Iran, this picture was taken at the wedding of my housekeeper's 17 year old son. Prior to the wedding, the bridegroom, family and friends dance through the alleys to music by a reed horn player and drummer.
- Volunteer Photos
- Students
- Music; Host community friends; Teachers and students
- Pictured are my students from Goldbedaugh, Iran, a small village of about 50 people located about 5 or 6 miles from Kangavar, the county seat, where the school was located This village had no electricity in 1970, and students either walked or...
- Volunteer Photos
- The Peace Corps in Chile, 1961 - 1968
- 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...
- Historical Papers and Articles
- Letters from nurses in the Peace Corps
- Nurses; Medicine; Doctors; Disease; Health; Traditional medicine; Teachers and students; Work; Universities
- A collection of letters written by Peace Corps Volunteers serving as community health nurses in Malaysia, Niger, Afghanistan, East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), Turkey, Peru, Bolivia, India and Togo. No date is given, but the publication appears to...
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Remarks by Sargent Shriver at the commencement exercises, Kansas State University, June 3, 1962
- Shriver, Sargent; Peace Corps Directors; Universities
- Full text of Sargent Shriver's commencement address at Kansas State University on June 3, 1962.
- Speeches, Essays and Letters
- Peace Corps Fiscal Year 1966 Congressional Presentation
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 1966.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- ACTION 1977 Annual Report
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the ACTION Annual Report for 1977.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Peace Corps Congressional Presentation, Fiscal Year 1985
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 1985.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Peace Corps Congressional Presentation, Fiscal Year 1986
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 1986.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Peace Corps Congressional Budget Presentation, Fiscal Year 1996
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 1996.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification, Fiscal Year 2006
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 2006.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials
- Peace Corps Presentation of FY 1963 Program to United States Congress, June 1962
- Budget; Congress
- Full text of the Peace Corps Congressional Budget Justification for fiscal year 1963.
- Congressional and Legislative Materials