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Africa

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Butterfly detail from Bobbo’s donated Togodo textile
Master Weaver of Agbozume
How four Peace Corps volunteers and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court Warren Burger were lured to Bobbo’s loom John Nash Ghana 1988-90 One day ...
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A Frisbee for a Kakaki
A math teacher conducted a cultural swap with the Shehu of Dikwa Blake Patterson Nigeria 1963-1965 After a beautiful blond in Ann Arbor, Michigan dumped ...
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Worthless Currency
Bags of Money and Nothing to Eat Debby Prigal Ghana 1981-1983 I taught high school math at Our Lady of Apostoles Girls’ Secondary School.  Ho ...
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Beyond War with the Peace Corps:
A Personal Poster Story My eyes landed on Beyond War’s Peace Corps Award poster leaning upside down against a wall Mike Abkin Nigeria, 1966-68 It ...
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Disappointment Season in Sierra Leone
The soothing pulse of the late-night rain shower on my metal roof announced the onset of the rainy season for the farmers in Tokpombu. This ...
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My Language, Digitized
Yemane Russom – Friend of RPCVs, Eritrea
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Asia

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I Became a Monk in Thailand
I used two years of vacation to be a monk for one month Dewey Weaver Thailand 1977 – 1979 I really loved living in Bangkok. ...
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Padmavati Festival from my roof
An affinity for basic tools
A school garden flourishes and a mentor commands from his veranda Edward Frankel India 1966-1968 As a child I watched my grandfather—an immigrant and a ...
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Sang-Bae - 1974
How a “Brave name” Led to a Reunion…34 Years Later
Although I taught many English classes at a boy’s middle school, I organized a “special English class”, selecting four of the brightest students. Twice a ...
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some of author's students
A Fond Remembrance of the Proud and Elegant Rana Tharu Women of Nepal
The Tharu women are very proud and were not subservient to the males in their family. For example, in the area at the time, it ...
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My Olympus Came to the Rescue
Chris Foreman, Korea, 1972- 1974. The day a teacher stood up to a schoolhouse bully.
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Caution Toxic Wood 
Mart Lind, Jajang Malaysia 1965-1967. Simple tools with a good attitude can result in incredible things.
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EASTERN EUROPE AND
CENTRAL ASIA

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Padmavati Festival from my roof
An affinity for basic tools
A school garden flourishes and a mentor commands from his veranda Edward Frankel India 1966-1968 As a child I watched my grandfather—an immigrant and a ...
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Picturing Bahini
Steve Larson - Nepal 1966 - 1968. A photograph evokes memories of a Nepal I returned to a dozen times
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Afghan School for Girls
Robin Varnum, Afghanistan 1971-1973. When Girls Could Attend School in Afghanistan
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A Country Boy’s Guide to the Peace Corps
Philip Smith, Afghanistan 1970-1972. “I’m a nobody from a nowhere town…”
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North Macedonia
Turning A Liability Into An Asset
Augustine Addai - North Macedonia 2022-2024. arrived in North Macedonia in September 2022 as a Peace Corps Volunteer with the first cohort to the country ...
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Creative Kindness
When I applied to the Peace Corps, I was given three options for assignments: China, Thailand, or a nebulous third choice, “do anything and go ...
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LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN

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Buiti Binafi!
A sacred symbol of the deep connections I formed, the boundless generosity I received, and the enduring beauty of Garifuna heritage. Ava Hacker Belize 2011-2013 ...
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The Flagpole Still Stands: Twenty-Two Years in Belize
Sometimes the greatest service is simply allowing yourself to be welcomed home Tim Dami Belize 2003-2005 September 11, 2001. I watched the towers fall from ...
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The Parting Gift
Janna Cunnion Ecuador 2020 The evacuation was the messiest of exits: a sudden, panicked, tearful, middle-of-the-night commotion. The president of Ecuador was closing the roads ...
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Rest in Peace
Colombian rescue changes to recovery in Peace Corps’ first tragedy Byron Hopewell Colombia 1961-1963 On Easter Sunday, 1962, an Avispa commercial flight from the Pacific ...
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Listening Always Helps
Chicken bones were left at the cooperative door John Miller Brazil 1967-1970 I lived in the bairro (neighborhood) of Engenho Velho de Brotas in Salvador, ...
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How I Became an Associate Peace Corps Director
What are you doing here in the campo (rural area) when you speak Spanish, Quechua and English? Remigio Ancalle Bolivia 1992 – 2011 I remember ...
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NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

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  • MOROCCO
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Judy and Suzanne on camel in Southern Tunisia
A Lifelong Lens: Part One
About to graduate from Sarah Lawrence College, I was determined to become a documentary filmmaker. Albert and David Maysles — the legends of New York ...
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My Appropriate Gift
In 1971, I was blessed to be serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer, in Marrakesh, a thrilling, pink city in the desert, a magnet for ...
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Silk Shirt vs. Hair Shirt Volunteers
I was one of the agriculture/forestry volunteers in Morocco with degrees in the areas in which we were assigned to work. At that time, ten years ...
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Treasures of Morocco
Richard Wallace Morocco 1977-1979 My travels to produce Ministry of Agriculture films and printed materials enhanced my appreciation...
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Jebel Sabir Dress
Peggy Schaeffer Yemen 1978–1979 I had hardly heard of the place in 1978, when a Peace Corps recruiter called and said, “How about...
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Non-buyer’s Remorse
Sharon Keld Morocco 2006–2008 I served in small business development in the Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Azrou, a market...
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PACIFIC ISLANDS

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Life Without Walls
Matt Crichton Western Samoa, 2007-09 What I first thought would just be a very large teaching project for me was a publishing project that was ...
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Marshall Islands hats are fading into history
In 1975, I volunteered for the Peace Corps in the Marshall Islands as a math and science co-teacher.   My pre-service training was on Arno ...
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Catching the Octopus

Gene Carl Feldman
 - Western Samoa 1974 - 1977 - With an orator who made a lure shaped like a rat.
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Two Days and One Night on Tin Can Island
I was seven years old in 1961 when John F. Kennedy announced his idea of a Peace Corps, planting a seed in me to be ...
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Dear Kiribati
Michael Roman Kiribati - 2000-2002 Dear Kiribati -It’s been twenty-two years since I first breathed your hot, salty air, waded in your warm turquoise....
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Blending Custom and Law
Don Bliss Micronesia - 1966-68 My future wife and I met in training in 1966 and headed to Ponape. The island was home for about...
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