The work of USAID has been far-reaching and long-standing as evidenced by this photo of a Peace Corps volunteer working in the ORT center funded by USAID. In the mid 1970's Joan Wadelton, a Peace Corps Volunteer from Princeton, New Jersey, holds one of the children she helps at a maternal and child health center in Niger. The center is operated by ORT, a voluntary agency, and the Nigerienne Ministry of Health, is financed by USAID. Photo Credit: USAID
I was a volunteer in the 60s (India 65-67). Shriver, Wofford, Wiggins et al understood the importance of PC being an independent agency and fought for it not to be a small square in State’s organization chart. While AID does wonderful things the value of PC as a person to person program separate from our foreign policy should not be lost.