Full text of Sargent Shriver's briefing to the press held on March 6, 1961. Shriver introduced members of the original Peace Corps task force, and fielded topics on a range of questions about the initial plans for how the Peace Corps would operate.
This was the first mail delivery to my new house! No matter how much rain (and we get a lot) during the rainy season or how many dogs (and we have a lot), the mail gets delivered. This picture was taken by me (PCV Carla Arnold) in May 2011.
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...
Two young dar chebab (youth center) students in Morocco participated in creating an art mural for the dar chebab where Volunteer Elizabeth Chon taught the students how to paint properly and the meaning behind the art mural.
This photo was taken in Agadez, Niger, in the Sahara desert, in February 1990. Some fellow Volunteers and I were sitting in the back of a pick-up truck on our way to start our one-week trek through the Sahara desert at the end of our Peace Corps...
This photo, taken September 2011 in the uThukela District of KwaZulu Natal, South Africa, shows a role play depicting stigma in the family, part of TAMCC's (Thukela Amajuba Mzinyathi Christian Council) initiative on Churches Challenging Stigma....
A Nyau dancer of the Chewa tribe looks through the mouth of a mask as he performs at a local cultural ceremony.
This photo was taken August 8, 2011 in Zambia. I booked the local village dancers to come for the first site visit I was hosting.
While serving in Jamaica (05-07) I worked at Mocho Primary School (what we would call an elementary school). I went through the school when I was first there and took many photos of the students, including several striking portraits. In this...
I took this photo while biking on the road from my home in Spaldings, Jamaica to my work at Knox Community College. The photo evokes the scents and sounds of rural Jamaica to me.
This photo was taken in Biikira Parish, Rakai district, in Southern Uganda. It is on the wall of the maternity ward at St. Joseph Health Center III. The student, John Paul, is painting a mural that encourages pregnant HIV positive women to go for...
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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.