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Africa

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  • BOTSWANA
  • BURKINA FASO
  • CAMEROON
  • CHAD
  • COTE d'IVOIRE
  • ERITREA
  • ESWATINI
  • ETHIOPIA
  • GABON
  • GHANA
  • KENYA
  • LESOTHO
  • LIBERIA
  • MADAGASCAR
  • MALAWI
  • NAMIBIA
  • NIGER
  • NIGERIA
  • SENEGAL
  • SIERRA LEONE
  • SOMALIA
  • TANZANIA
  • THE GAMBIA
  • TOGO
  • UGANDA
  • ZAIRE
The Road to Là-bas
Stacy Jupiter - Gabon 1997 - 1999. How time passes in the back of a pick-up truck.
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Delayed in Entebbe
Tina Thuermer, Zaire 1973 - 1975. Zaire trainees held captive by Idi Amin for three days.
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You Are Safe in Our Land
David Koren, Nigeria 1964 - 1966. Nighttime airlift of food and medicine for starving Biafrans.
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Career path bent by Peace Corps
Ralph Cohen - Liberia, 1974-76. An engineer learns to roll up his sleeves and teach himself.
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Going Home: A Peace Corps Journey 
Reginald Hodges - Sierra Leone 1968-1971. I was raised in segregated North Carolina in a middle-class African American family.
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Standing Ovation
Karla Olorato Henderson - Botswana 2011-2014. When I joined the Peace Corps in 2011, I was told I’d be capacity building existing and future teachers. ...
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Asia

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  • KOREA
  • MALAYSIA
  • NEPAL
  • PHILIPPINES
  • THAILAND
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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Families Bonded by a Kurta
It was a warm, sunny October morning. The heat of summer faded, and a pleasant breeze drifted over the rice paddies toward the front porch. ...
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Sima participates in an anti-drug and HIV awareness Mural project with high school students in Phrao, Chiang Mai
Pai nai ka? Where are you going?
To my grandchildren: Once, your Mama Sima decided to go from her home in America to Thailand and become friends with people there and help them ...
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With A Goal in Mind
My Peace Corps assignment was, by choice, in the Borneo ulu, half a day or more upriver into the equatorial rainforest. Ulu is a native ...
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Wearing the Queen’s Dress
As a little girl in South Dakota, I would often steal away to a small bookcase in the living room of our farmhouse. Since I ...
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EASTERN EUROPE AND
CENTRAL ASIA

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  • AFGHANISTAN
  • GEORGIA
  • INDIA
  • IRAN
  • MACEDONIA
  • NEPAL
  • POLAND
  • SLOVAKIA
  • TURKEY
  • UKRAINE
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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India: Land of Contrasts
The body, base, handle, and spout of this pitcher were cast separately in brass and then assembled. From an engineering perspective, I am impressed by ...
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LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN

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  • BOLIVIA
  • BRAZIL
  • COLOMBIA
  • COSTA RICA
  • DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
  • ECUADOR
  • EL SALVADOR
  • GUATEMALA
  • HONDURAS
  • NICARAGUA
  • PARAGUAY
  • PERU
  • ST. LUCIA
The Bus Ride
Janette K. Hopper - Colombia 1966 - 1968. Then a heavy woman, old and very large with dirty fingernails, comes along.
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Medicine Man
Michael J. Kirwin M.D.- Brazil 1967-1969. A Suitcase Led to a Medical Degree.
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Finding a Creole culture in Nicaragua
Mark H. Lewis - Nicaragua 1993 - 1996. Out of his comfort zone an African American volunteer discovers a cultural connection.
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Operation “Little Libraries”
Margaret Loomis, Peru 1962 - 1964. Our assignment was to deliver and establish "little libraries" to the indigenous communities in the Peruvian Sierra
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Surprise Visit from the Past
Deborah Manget, St Lucia 1978 to 1979. Eight-year-old Michel woke me on Saturday mornings making music by drumming on old pots - twenty years later ...
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The Night a Bridge Game Saved My Life – Literally!
Upon my entry into Peace Corps service in 1966 in the Dominican Republic, there also was the U.S. 82nd Airborne military unit intervention in the ...
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NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

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  • MOROCCO
  • YEMEN
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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  • KIRIBATI
  • MICRONESIA
  • PAPUA NEW GUINEA
  • SAMOA
  • TONGA
  • VANUATU
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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Sheila N. with Class
Nothing to Give You But This
Sheila Newlin Papua New Guinea, 2000 From a small winter-cold town in Wyoming, I headed to my teaching assignment in Papua New Guinea...
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Sleeping Mat
Richard Sundt Micronesia, Marshall Islands 1967-1969 Yemen 1978–1979 In much of the world, people take their furniture for granted. Among the people who live on ...
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“For every young American who participates in the Peace Corps—who works in a foreign land—will know that he or she is sharing in the great common task of bringing to man that decent way of life, which is the foundation of freedom and a condition of peace.”
– President John F. Kennedy, March 1, 1961

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