Common Service Projects

Students in a classroom at the Chinga school in Kenya in May 1967.

Peace Corps Volunteer Ellen Vahue working with a student in the Jumpstart English Program in Cristo Rey Village, Cayo, Belize in 2002.

Education

Peace Corps Volunteers teach a variety of subjects including English, Mathematics, and Science at the primary and secondary level.

Peace Corps Volunteer Earl Kessler's floor plan for the "vereda" in Dos Aguas, Colombia.

Peace Corps Volunteers and community members working on drainage ditches in Chile.

Community Development

Peace Corps Volunteers's roles in their communities depend on their project. They work on everything from road building to architectural design.

A Peace Corps Volunteer at work at the Maasai Medical Project in Kenya in 1966.

Peace Corps Volunteer Peggy Gleeson holds an infant in the baby ward of Fusa Hospital in Fusa, Colombia.

Health

Peace Corps Volunteers provide both health care and health education.

Peace Corps Volunteer Bill Mark feeding livestock at Peace Corps House inÂ Paraguay.

Peace Corps Director Sargent Shriver thanking Peace Corps Volunteer Richard Burns for his actions during a forest fire in the Dominican Republic in October 1964.