Newspaper Coverage and Articles, 1961-1963 and undated

Includes: Kazi za Maendeleo kwa Hiari" (August or September 1961), an article written about VISA volunteers in a regional (northern Tanganyika) newspaper at the end of their in-country orientation and Swahili training - loosely translated as the work of community development volunteers - which, in the first paragraph explains that VISA was not associated with the Peace Corps ("jeshi la amani"); "Conditions hopeful on independence eve" (November 28, 1961), an article Garry wrote for the Earlham Post, his college newspaper, five months after arriving in Tanganyika, three months after beginning work with "school leavers" and adult education in community centers in the city of Tanga; Little Peace Corps" (March 4, 1962), Philadelphia Bulletin Sunday magazine, which helps document that the AFSC was asked to participate in the development of the US Peace Corps, also established in 1961. The VISA volunteers arrived in Arusha, Tanganyika, in July 1961, and were plunged immediately into in-country orientation and Swahili training at Tengeru, just a few miles east of Arusha. Peace Corps/Tanganyika Garry arrived in September 1961, and had their in­ country training at the same training center in Tengeru. The Peace Corps program had so much more name recognition, being so closely identified with President Kennedy's first months in office, VISA volunteers were often asked if we were with "Peace Corpse," Tanganyikans often pronouncing the "s". It is true VISA volunteers were low key about being identified with the AFSC, at least typically saying that they were Americans working for the Government of Tanganyika; A Well is Wonderful" (c.1963), probably a Philadelphia Bulletin Sunday magazine article, Harry Bailey with his back to the camera, he the first director of VISA Tanganyika (1961-63), just a note about the pump head in the photo: the design was originated by the AFSC on a community development project in Barpali, Orisa District, India in the 1950s; "'Friends' call on Nyerere" (March 28, 1963), photo on the front page of the Tanganyika Standard, this after volunteers from Tanganyika I and II had maybe a half an hour session talking with President Nyerere in his office in State House.