Peace Corps Volunteers at work in Chile

Collection Title: Peace Corps Volunteers at work in Chile

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Description: This collection contains images taken by Kay Muldoon-Ibrahim, a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer and former Peace Corps Photographer. The images depict Peace Corps Volunteers working with Chilean community members to further programs in areas such as urban and rural community development, education, public health services, artisan cooperatives, and housing projects.

: Peace Corps Volunteer Brian Loveman goes over site plans with members of the town committee selected to direct the relocation project, Trovolhue, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Brian Loveman worked with a community development project to help relocate and rebuild Trovolhue, which began experiencing annual flooding after the 1960 earthquake. Loveman worked directly with the townspeople on the project, 1965/1968.

: Peace Corps Volunteer engineer Phil Burgi surveying road into new Trovolhue town, Trovolhue, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Phil Burgi worked with a community development project to help relocate and rebuild Trovolhue, which began experiencing annual flooding after the 1960 earthquake. As an engineer, Phil surveyed for the road, the plaza, the new school, and designed a new bridge and developed a site plan, 1965/1968.

: Peace Corps Volunteer Sharon Loveman chatting with a neighbor in Trovolhue, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Sharon Loveman worked with a community development project to help relocate and rebuild Trovolhue, which began experiencing annual flooding after the 1960 earthquake. As part of the project, Sharon taught home economics, taught the women in the three Centro de Madres how to can and preserve their fruits and vegetables and how to use sewing machines and patterns. Sharon also collaborated with a program initiated by the Director of the Regional hospital which trained health volunteers, establishing well-child clinics in Trovolhue and surrounding countryside, 1965/1968.

: Peace Corps Volunteers and community members, including Peace Corps Volunteer Brian Loveman, working on drainage ditches to make roads passable for Trovolhue construction projects, Trovolhue, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Brian Loveman worked with a community development project to help relocate and rebuild Trovolhue, which began experiencing annual flooding after the 1960 earthquake. Loveman worked directly with the townspeople on the project, 1965/1968.