Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter Photo Gallery
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Date: Aug. 9, 1999
Credit: The Carter Center
President and Mrs. Carter receive the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Clinton at a ceremony at The Carter Center in Atlanta.
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Date: 2008
Credit: The Carter Center
Working to build peace in Nepal since 2003, the Center observed the country’s first constituent assembly elections in 2008, and then conducted long-term political and constitutional monitoring until June 2013. Here President and Mrs. Carter observe voting in Bhaktapur.
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Date: March 9, 1979
Credit: Jimmy Carter Library
President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter on a train in Alexandria, Egypt, during a trip to the Middle East, March 9, 1979.
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Date: October 11, 2005
Credit: The Carter Center
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, organize their observation papers as they prepare for poll closing procedures in Monrovia, Liberia, in October 2005.
Through its Democracy Program, The Carter Center has helped pioneer the field of election observation, monitoring national elections in 40 countries to help deter fraud and reassure voters their votes would count.
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Date: June 7, 1999
Credit: The Carter Center
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter shaking hands with children during the Indonesian elections June 5-9, 1999.
The Carter Center has been a pioneer of the field of election observation, monitoring national elections to help deter fraud and reassure voters their votes would count.
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Date: 2018
Credit: The Carter Center
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter and former U.S. President Jimmy Carter discuss some of the ways The Carter Center has been waging peace and fighting disease to build hope for millions around the world in September 2018 in Atlanta, Ga.
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Date: 1993
Credit: Rick Diamond
The Carter Center was founded in 1982 by former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, in partnership with Emory University, to advance peace and health worldwide. A not-for-profit, nongovernmental organization, The Carter Center has helped to improve life for people in more than 80 countries by resolving conflicts; advancing democracy, human rights, and economic opportunity; preventing diseases; improving mental health care; and teaching farmers in developing nations to increase crop production.
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Date: Feb. 8, 2007
Credit: The Carter Center
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter wear traditional Ghanaian attire, a gift from the chief of Tingoli village in northern Ghana, where The Carter Center, in partnership with Ghana’s Ministry of Health, is working to eradicate Guinea worm disease and eliminate trachoma. The Carters visited the village Feb. 8, 2007, as part of a two-week health tour of remote African villages.
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Date: Jan. 9, 2011
Credit: The Carter Center
President and Mrs. Carter leave a polling center near Juba after observing voting during the referendum on Jan. 9, 2011.
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Date: Feb. 8, 2007
Credit: The Carter Center
At Savelugu Hospital in Northern Region Ghana, former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, watch as a Guinea worm health worker dresses a child’s extremely painful Guinea worm wound.
To end the social and economic consequences associated with this horrific disease, The Carter Center spearheads the international Guinea worm eradication campaign. Since 1986, Guinea worm disease (dracunculiasis) has been reduced by more than 99 percent. Today, The Carter Center and its partners, in collaboration with thousands of dedicated community health workers, continue to intensify efforts to fight the last fraction of 1 percent of Guinea worm disease. Thanks to this work, Guinea worm is poised to be the next disease eradicated and will be the first to be overcome without a vaccine or medicine.
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Date: March 19, 2003
Credit: The Carter Center
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, pose at the Atlanta Symphony Hall in the Woodruff Arts Center in Atlanta, Georgia, at an event celebrating President Carter’s Nobel Peace Prize, awared in December 2002.
Date: Feb. 15, 2007
Credit: The Carter Center
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, visited children suffering from schistosomiasis during their Feb. 15, 2007, trip to Nasarawa North, Nigeria. The Carters traveled to the community to bring national attention to the country’s need to make disease prevention methods and treatments with the medicine praziquantel more accessible in its rural and impoverished communities.
Date: Sept. 15, 2005
Credit: The Carter Center
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter, senior officials from The Carter Center, and Ethiopia Minister of Health made a visit to the village of Mosebo to commend the efforts of the Amhara Region to prevent trachoma, a painful bacterial disease that causes blindness.
Widespread and debilitating, trachoma is considered a major public health problem in Ethiopia. In October 2000, The Carter Center, with funding from Lions-Carter Center SightFirst Initiative, accepted the Ethiopian government’s invitation to work on controlling trachoma in the Amhara Region. Thanks to disease control interventions, the Ethiopia Ministry of Health, with the assistance of The Carter Center, is fostering a new generation of Ethiopians that will never know the devastating affects of the disease.
Date: Jan. 25, 2006
Credit: The Carter Center
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and his wife, Rosalynn, observe the 2006 Palestinian parliamentary elections as part of an 80-member delegation, organized by The Carter Center and the National Democratic Institute. The delegation included elected officials, electoral and human rights experts, regional specialists, and political and civic leaders from North America, the Middle East, Europe, Africa, and Asia.
Date: May 12, 2002
Credit: The Carter Center
In May 2002, President Carter, joined by his wife, Rosalynn, became the first former or sitting U.S. president to travel to Cuba since the 1959 Cuban revolution. In an unprecedented live speech broadcast on Cuban television, President Carter called on the United States to end an “ineffective 43-year-old economic embargo” and on President Castro to hold free elections, improve human rights, and allow greater civil liberties.
Date: May 12, 2002
Credit: The Carter Center
Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter and former First Lady Rosalynn Carter enjoyed a warm welcome from Cuban citizens during a walking tour of historic Old Havana.
In May 2002, President Carter, joined by his wife, Rosalynn, became the first former or sitting U.S. president to travel to Cuba since the 1959 Cuban revolution. In an unprecedented live speech broadcast on Cuban television, President Carter called on the United States to end an “ineffective 43-year-old economic embargo” and on President Castro to hold free elections, improve human rights, and allow greater civil liberties.
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