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Title: The Wait - Food Relief
Date: 1971-1973
Creator: Dizon, Ron
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: A young girl and boy wait for food and humanitarian relief in Afghanistan, c. 1971-1973. The girl is dressed in a long, dark embroidered robe that covers her head. She covers her mouth with her right hand as she hugs the boy, who is standing to her left. The boy is wearing an embroidered robe and a Mazari cap, or Pashteen hat. A tree branch extends into the frame from the top left corner, and a wall made of rocks can be seen in the background.
Subject: Boys -- Afghanistan; Girls – Afghanistan; Victims of famine -- Afghanistan
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0099
Type: color photographs
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Death on the Darzak
Date: 1971-1973
Creator: Dizon, Ron
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: Photograph of a person wearing a black robe and carrying a long staff. The person walks along a rocky terrain near a steep cliff on the Darzak Plains of Afghanistan, c. 1971-1973. Mountains and clouds can be seen in the background.
Subject: Mountains -- Afghanistan; Plains -- Afghanistan; Victims of famine -- Afghanistan
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0097
Type: color photographs
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Hope - Jawand, Afghanistan
Date: 1971-1973
Creator: Dizon, Ron
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: An elderly woman, wearing a dark robe and a headscarf, sits outdoors on the desert ground with her hands clasped. She is seated next to three people dressed in black robes. They await food and humanitarian aid in Jawand, Afghanistan, c. 1971-1973.
Subject: Women – Afghanistan; Victims of famine -- Afghanistan
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0098
Type: color photographs
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Letter from M.I. Majid-Seraj to Ron Dizon, February 15, 1973
Date: 1973-02-15; 1973-02-15; 1973-02-15
Creator: Dizon, Ron
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: Digitized by Archives; Letter from M.I. Majid-Seraj, Chairman of the Coordination Committee for Operation Help, thanking Peace Corps Volunteer Ron Dizon for his work in famine relief in Afghanistan.
Subject: Humanitarian assistance -- Afghanistan; Volunteers -- Afghanistan
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0100
Type: correspondence
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: Peace Corps Afghanistan - Volunteers 1971-1973 slideshow from "Portland Convocation - A Moment in Time Reunion - July 26-29, 2012 - Special Thanks to Jim Poplack, Jim Hicks, Fritz Laurenovics"
Date: 1971-1973
Creator: Dizon, Ron
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: Slide slow created by returned Peace Corps Volunteer Ron Dizon, who served in Afghanistan from 1971 to 1973. This slide show contains personal photographs of Peace Corps volunteers in the Either Or Otter Corps, which they took during their service in Afghanistan from 1971 to 1973. These volunteers attended the Moment in Time Reunion, which took place from July 26th through July 29th, 2012 in Portland, Oregon.
Subject: Volunteers -- Afghanistan -- Anecdotes
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0103
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Exhibition Photographs - Afghanistan 2012 slideshow from "Portland Convocation - A Moment in Time Reunion - July 26-29, 2012 – Special Thanks to Jim Poplack, Jim Hicks, Fritz Laurenovics"
Date: 2012
Creator: Dizon, Ron
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: Slide slow created by returned Peace Corps Volunteer Ron Dizon, who served in Afghanistan from 1971 to 1973. This slide show displays personal photographs of Peace Corps volunteers from the Either Or Otter Corps, which was sent to Afghanistan in the early 1970s. These photographs were taken after the volunteers completed their Peace Corps service in 1973. Many of the photographs show the volunteers spending time together at the 2012 Moment in Time Reunion in Portland, Oregon.
Subject: Volunteers -- Afghanistan -- Anecdotes
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0102
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Operation Help plan
Date: 1972-09-25
Description: Working plan for Operation Help created by the Coordination Committee. The Peace Corps and USAID send volunteers to participate in Operation Help, an Afghanistan government effort to provide relief to victims of severe drought. This program fed 250,000 before the winter of 1972.
Subject: Drought relief -- Afghanistan
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0004
Type: plans (reports)
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:1709
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: Dr. Mohammad Ibrahim Majid-Seraj and General Mohammed Nazir Kabir Seraj posing with Operation Help recipients
Date: 1972
Creator: Dizon, Ron
Description: Operation Help Coodrinating Committee members: Dr. Mohammad Ibrahim Majid-Seraj, Minister of Public Health, Chairman of Operation Help Coordination Committee and General Mohammed Nazir Kabir Seraj, President of Army Logistics, Commanding General for Plans and Oprations.
Subject: Drought relief -- Afghanistan
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0001
Type: photographs
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:1706
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Peace Corps Afghanistan Rural Public Works and Food for Work program description
Date: 1972 Spring
Description: Peace Corps document outlining the background and volunteer involvement for the Rural Public Works and Food for Work Program in Afghanastan.
Subject: Drought relief -- Afghanistan
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0005
Type: documents
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:1710
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: Letter of recommendation for Ron Dizon written by Abe S. Ashcanase, 14 June 1973
Date: 1973-06-14
Creator: Ashcanase, Abe S.
Description: Letter of recommendation written by Abe S. Ashcanase, Assistant Director for Management for the United States of American Agency for International Development, regarding Ron Dizon's involvement with the Peace Corps and the Operation Help report.
Subject: Drought relief -- Afghanistan
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0006
Type: letters of recommendation
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:1711
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: Dr. Mohammad Ibrahim Majid-Seraj and General Mohammed Nazir Kabir Seraj standing with Operation Help recipients
Date: 1972
Creator: Dizon, Ron
Description: Operation Help Coodrinating Committee members: Dr. Mohammad Ibrahim Majid-Seraj, Minister of Public Health, Chairman of Operation Help Coordination Committee and General Mohammed Nazir Kabir Seraj, President of Army Logistics, Commanding General for Plans and Oprations.
Subject: Drought relief -- Afghanistan
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0002
Type: photographs
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:1707
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Operation Help final report
Date: 1973-03-15
Creator: Dizon, Ron; Hicks, James C.
Description: Final report, including photographs taken by PCVs Ron Dizon and James C. Hicks, from Operation Help. The Peace Corps and USAID send volunteers to participate in Operation Help, an Afghanistan government effort to provide relief to victims of severe drought. This program fed 250,000 before the winter of 1972.
Subject: Drought relief -- Afghanistan
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0003
Type: reports
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:1708
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: The Gospel According to Timothy and James
Date: 2013
Creator: Dizon, Ron
Description: Account of The Either Or Otter Corps (EOOC) in Afghanistan during the 1972.
Subject: Drought relief -- Afghanistan
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0007
Type: memoirs
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
URI/handle: http://hdl.handle.net/1961/peacecorps:1712
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: Peace Corps Afghanistan: 1964-1978
Date: 2017-10-10
Creator: Dizon, Ron
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: A 244 page document of personal stories and photographs from sixty-four returned Peace Corps Afghanistan Volunteers.
Subject: Volunteers -- Afghanistan; Volunteers -- Afghanistan -- Anecdotes; Volunteers -- Afghanistan -- Biography
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0008
Type: memoirs
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
mods_typeOfResource_mt: text

Title: Afghanistan Black & White: Slideshow
Date: 1971-1973
Creator: Dizon, Ron
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: Slide show of black and white photograhs taken in Afghanistan.
Subject: Volunteers -- Afghanistan; Humanitarian assistance -- Afghanistan
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0009
Type: presentations (communicative events)
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
mods_typeOfResource_mt: moving image

Title: Darzak Plains of the Hindu Kush Mountains, Afghanistan, c. 1971-1973
Date: 1971-1973
Creator: Dizon, Ron
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: View of the Darzak Plains with the Hindu Kush mountains in the distance.
Subject: Mountains -- Afghanistan; Plains -- Afghanistan; Landscapes -- Afghanistan
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0012
Type: black-and-white photographs
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: The Boys of the Darzak Plains, c. 1971-1973
Date: 1971-1973
Creator: Dizon, Ron
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: Group portrait of three boys, seated with their hands crossed in front of them, on the rocky ground of the Darzak Plains.
Subject: Boys -- Afghanistan; Plains -- Afghanistan
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0013
Type: black-and-white photographs
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Traveling with the Nomadic Tribes to Farah, Afghanistan, c. 1971-1973
Date: 1971-1973
Creator: Dizon, Ron
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: A group of children stand outside of a tent.
Subject: Children of nomads -- Afghanistan; Nomads -- Afghanistan; Tribes -- Afghanistan
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0039
Type: black-and-white photographs
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Living on the Darzak Plains of the Hindu Kush, 1973 Famine Relief Tent Headquarters
Date: 1973
Creator: Dizon, Ron
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: Peace Corps Afghanistan volunteer Ron Dizon, sitting on a thin pillow on the floor, reading a book.
Subject: Volunteers -- Afghanistan; Americans -- Afghanistan
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0011
Type: black-and-white photographs
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

Title: Nomadic Tribes (Koochis) of Afghanistan in the Deserts of Baluchistan: Title Slide
Date: 1971-1973
Creator: Dizon, Ron
Publisher: American University Library. Archives and Special Collections.
Description: Title slide for Nomadic Tribes (Koochis) of Afghanistan in the Deserts of Baluchistan, part of Afghanistan Black & White by Ron Dizon.
Subject: Nomads -- Afghanistan; Tribes -- Afghanistan
Country: Afghanistan
Local Identifier: PCCA_Dizon_0038
Type: black-and-white photographs
Collection: Ron Dizon collection
mods_typeOfResource_mt: still image

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