Jill Vickers is a producer of film documentaries and also a former Peace Corps Volunteer. Jill was a member of a Peace Corps female vaccination teams in the late 1960’s in Afghanistan. The women traveled throughout the country working with Afghan male vaccinators on a small pox vaccination program done in conjunction with the United Nations World Health Organization (WHO). Jill produced a deeply interesting and evocative documentary, “Once in Afghanistan”, a film in which she interviews many of the women who served on the pioneering and very effective teams.
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Spring 2023 volunteering update
The Director of the U.N. World Health Organization (WHO), has announced that the Covid 19 Global Health Emergency has ended. The disease