Peace Corps Volunteers at work in Chile

Title: Peace Corps Volunteers at work in Chile

Abstract: 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.

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: Peace Corps Volunteer Clare Palmer holds a puppy and poses with a woman holding a baby, Toconao, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Clare Palmer 1966-1968 worked in rural community development with women in Toconao, helping them market their handicrafts.

: Peace Corps Volunteer Kay Burgi works in the lab at the Temuco Hospital, Temuco, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Kay Burgi worked as a lab technician and trained other lab technicians at the Temuco Hospital, Temuco, Chile, 1966.

: Peace Corps Volunteer Jack Marcus helps community members skin a sheep in preparation for a wedding celebration, San Vicente, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Jack Marcus worked on rural community development projects in San Vicente, Chile, 1966.

: Peace Corps Volunteer Frank Nuchi, left, with a colleague from INACAP designing a new improved hydraulic press, Nueva Palena, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Frank Nuchi 1965/1967 worked in urban community development in Nueva Palena, Chile. Nuchi worked with the community to build homes during Chile's mid-1960s urban housing deficit. This self-help housing project received a lot of publicity from New York Times reporter, Juan de Onis, philosopher Walter Lippmann, Robert Kennedy, and President Nixon.

: 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 Barbara Honer dances with Mapuche villagers, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Barbara Honer worked with the Mapuche community, Chile, 1968.

: Peace Corps Volunteer Don Cameron and local villagers carrying plants down a dirt road in Temuco, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Don Cameron worked on a reforestation project which aimed to help improve foraging and crop production in Temuco, Chile, 1966.

: 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 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.

: 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 Volunteer Blanch Everhard sits next to a student at a loom during her weaving class at the Instituto de Educación Rural in Curicó, Chile; Peace Corps Volunteer Blanch Everhard taught weaving at the Instituto de Educación Rural in Curicó, Chile, 1966/1967.