Peace Corps Volunteer Teaches Carpentry in Kenya

ID: SIA2011-1155

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Form/Genre: Group, candid

Date: 1973

Citation: Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 264, Box 26, Folder: ACTION - Peace Corps Handbooks and Manuals

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Summary

A Peace Corps industrial arts instructor teaches young men in Kenya carpentry skills. In 1970 the Smithsonian contracted with the Peace Corps to assist in establishing an international environmental program, the Smithsonian Institution-Peace Corps Environmental Program (SI-PCEP) to develop conservation, biological, and ecological projects in natural resource fields. Recruits were placed through the Office of Environmental Sciences. President John F. Kennedy had set up the Young American Peace Corps in 1961.

Subject

  • Smithsonian Institution-Peace Corps Environmental Program (SI-PCEP)
  • Peace Corps (U.S.)
  • Peace Corps Kenya

Category

Historic Images of the Smithsonian

Notes

Featured in "Volunteers in Action: Peace Corps VISTA" Handbook. For other images from this handbook, see SIA2011-1151, SIA2011-1152, SIA2011-1153, SIA2011-1154.

Contained within

Smithsonian Institution Archives, Record Unit 264, Box 26, Folder: ACTION - Peace Corps Handbooks and Manuals

Contact information

Institutional History Division, Smithsonian Archives, 600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Washington, D.C. 20024-2520, SIHistory@si.edu

Date

1973

Restrictions & Rights

No restrictions

Topic

  • Carpentry
  • Voluntarism
  • Schools
  • Educators
  • Teaching
  • Teachers

Place

Kenya

Form/Genre

  • Group, candid
  • Document

ID Number

SIA2011-1155

Physical description

Number of Images: 1; Color: Color; Size: 4.5w x 3h; Type of Image: Group, Candid; Medium: Document

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