NOSSA FAMILIA

Home for for volunteers in the Brazil I project sometimes was with a Brazilian family, or and apartment with their Brazilian counterparts, or, a room in the extension office, or a boarding house or mall hotel. Each volunteer made his own circle of friends and sometimes boy or girl friends. Up to January 1964 there had been three PCV weddings. There were seven other volunteers engaged either to a Brazilian or another PCV.

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Esther Diaz (front left) is shown with the Brazilian family with whom she lived in Teófilo Otoni, Minas Gerais. Juan Rosario is standing (left back) and Myra Anderson is seated (front right).

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Lunch time at his boarding house means the main meal with rice, beans, vegetables, meat an and dessert for Gerald Rutland.

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Making his bed is part of a day’s work for PCV Gerald Rutland.

 

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Francis and Sybil opened their home in Rio to all the volunteers.

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Doc, charter member, resigns membership to the bachelors club.