Peace Corps Volunteers at work in Chile

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Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Peter Wadsworth's fish packing plant, San Antonio, Chile, 1998
Peace Corps Volunteer Pete 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 in 1967. In April 1974 Wadsworth moved back to San Antonio to help run the artisan fisherman cooperative. In 1976 Wadsworth started exporting fish and built a small freezing plant. In 1982 Wadsworth and his Chilean partners devised a new way to catch swordfish that increased the total annual catch from 140 tons in 1978 to 6500 tons in 1992.
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Peter Wadsworth in San Antonio, Chile, 1998
Peace Corps Volunteer Pete 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 in 1967. In April 1974 Wadsworth moved back to San Antonio to help run the artisan fisherman cooperative. In 1976 Wadsworth started exporting fish and built a small freezing plant. In 1982 Wadsworth and his Chilean partners devised a new way to catch swordfish that increased the total annual catch from 140 tons in 1978 to 6500 tons in 1992.
Peace Corps Volunteers Warren Howell and Paul Smith working with a credit savings and loan cooperative in Valdivia, Chile
Peace Corps Volunteers Warren Howell and Paul Smith worked with a credit savings and loan co-op in Valdivia, Chile, 1966.
Peace Corps Volunteers Pat Weidner and Jim Olenhauser show a forestry film to the Mapuche members of the community, Puerto Domínguez, Chile
Peace Corps Volunteers Pat Widner and Jim Olenhauser worked in rural community development in reforestation and road construction projects near Puerto Domínguez, 1966.
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
Peace Corps Volunteers Jim Olenhauser (left) and Buso Warner demonstrate tree planting for a reforestation project, Chile
Peace Corps Volunteers Jim Olenhauser (left) and Buso Warner worked in rural community development educating and working with the reforestation of the region in 1966.
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.
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 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 Volunteer Richard Bennett and an unidentified man in a science lab at the Universidad de Chile in Montemar, Chile
Peace Corps Volunteer Richard Bennett taught marine biology and researched in the Oceanography Department of the Universidad de Chile in Montemar, Chile, 1976.
Peace Corps Volunteer Rich Cross at the Instituto de Desarrollo Agropecuario (INDAP) in Pitrufquén, Chile
Peace Corps Volunteer Rich Cross worked with a savings and loan/consumer co-op in Pitrufquén, Chile. During his time in Chile, Cross wrote a text with flip charts for El Instituto de Desarrollo Agropecuario (INDAP) personnel to use.
Peace Corps Volunteer Rex Jackson posing with his fourth grade students in a classroom, Melipeuco, Chile
Peace Corps Volunteer Rex Jackman with fourth grade students, Melipeuco, Chile, 1997.
Peace Corps Volunteer Peter Walsh plays his accordion for co-workers at the inauguration of their co-op and community center in Barros Arana, Chile
Peace Corps Volunteer Peter Walsh worked in urban community development in Barros Arana, Chile, 1966.
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 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 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 nurse Susan Blake and Dr. Jorge Hausmann inspecting an x-ray at the John F. Kennedy Hospital in Valdivia, Chile
Peace Corps Volunteer nurse Susan Blake worked at the John F. Kennedy Hospital in Valdivia, Chile. Blake served alongside Chilean colleagues in pediatric, burn, medical and surgical units. The program focused on helping prepare practical nurses and nursing students at University Austral.
Peace Corps Volunteer nurse Kate Lorig consults a mother regarding her child at the Consultorio Gil de Castro, Valdivia, Chile
Peace Corps Volunteer nurse Kate Lorig worked in the well-child clinic at the Consultorio Gil de Castro in Valdivia, Chile.
Peace Corps Volunteer nurse Diane Myers takes the blood pressure of a pediatric patient at John F. Kennedy Hospital in Valdivia, Chile
Peace Corps Volunteer nurse Diane Myers worked at the John F. Kennedy Hospital in Valdivia, Chile. Myers served alongside Chilean colleagues in pediatric, burn, medical and surgical units. The program focused on helping prepare practical nurses and nursing student at University Austral.
Peace Corps Volunteer Lynne Alper and Mapuche children holding a kitten on the Reducción Quetrahue, Chile
Peace Corps Volunteer Lynn Alper 1967-1969 worked in rural community development, and helped Mapuche women on the Reducción Quetrahue (Quetrahue Reservation) market their weavings.

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