Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Agriculture where he serves as chief mechanic in the ministry shop. He will develop proper maintenance programs and increase the efficiency in the shop’s operations. In the photo shown, he tests an...
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...
This Volunteer works to improve water management in a Tamashek camp on an island in the Niger River Delta. She is shown helping villagers unload supplies, which she will use to construct three wells in her village. They will transport these...
A Volunteer involved in gardening and agro-forestry, joins a former Volunteer and current Program Development Consultant for AFSI, in Mali in a trip to her island village of Issafaye. In this photo, they travel in a canoe to her island village in...
A Volunteer involved in gardening and agro-forestry, joins a former Volunteer in Mali in a trip to her island village of Issafaye. In this picture they transport rice to Issafaye, a Bozo fishing village where the fish population has been declining.
Pictured are members of Colombia V, a rural community development group that trained at the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque. After the photo op, the Volunteers sang the Colombian National Anthem for the press and Colombian dignitaries.