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.

: The Peace Corps Serving Chile booklet, 1967; A booklet outlining the history of the Peace Corps in Chile. It also gives an overview of the volunteer work and programs maintained by the Peace Corps, such as rural and urban community development, education, forming cooperatives, and helping with professional assistance.

: Peace Corps Volunteer Bill Davis does a Mapuche dance with his neighbors, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Bill Davis 1965-1967 worked in rural community development projects in the campo near Lautaro. Davis worked with reforestation and the improvement of rabbit raising methods projects in 1967.

: Peace Corps Volunteer Dave Brigham demonstrates first aid bandaging, Santiago, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Dave Brigham worked in urban community development in poblaciones in the Santiago suburbs teaching classes in first aid and nutrition, 1967.

: Peace Corps Volunteer Dick Powell talks with an expert in rabbit farming at an Angora rabbit cooperative, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Dick Powell worked in rural community development with campesinos near Angol, Chile to help start an Angora rabbit production cooperative.

: Peace Corps Volunteer Paul Slattery helping a woman adjust a displayed weaving in a shop, Santiago, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Paul Slattery worked in urban community development from 1966-1968, working with artisan groups through out the Central Valley, helping bring their handicrafts to shops in Santiago, 1967.

: Peace Corps Volunteer Peter Wadsworth accompanying artisan fisherman on a boat, San Antonio, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Peter Wadsworth ran a fish packing plant in San Antonio where he froze and packed fish he bought from the artisan fisherman cooperative that he helped establish and began advising local fishermen in the port of San Antonio, Chile, 1967.

: Peace Corps Volunteer Peter Wadsworth pulling in fishing nets with fishing cooperative members, San Antonio, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Peter Wadsworth ran a fish packing plant in San Antonio where he froze and packed fish he bought from the artisan fisherman cooperative that he helped establish and began advising local fishermen in the port of San Antonio, Chile, 1967.

: Peace Corps Volunteer Walter White instructs a forging class at the ship building school in Valdivia, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Walter White taught forging at the ship building school in Valdivia, Chile, and helped build recreation equipment for poblaciones, 1967.

: Peace Corps Volunteers John Buzenberg and Gail Bakken Goodhue meet with the Artesania Araucana Instituto Indígena, Icalma, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteers John Buzenberg and Gail Bakken Goodhue worked with Mapuche artisans in Icalma. John Buzenberg worked with the Artesania Araucana Instituto Indígena in Temuco to set up an artisan sales area. Gail Bakken Goodhue worked with Mapuche weavers and wood carvers in the Llaima Volcano and Laguna Iclama regions to sell their crafts to supplement incomel, 1967