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Africa

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  • BOTSWANA
  • BURKINA FASO
  • CAMEROON
  • CHAD
  • COTE d'IVOIRE
  • ERITREA
  • ESWATINI
  • ETHIOPIA
  • GHANA
  • KENYA
  • LESOTHO
  • LIBERIA
  • MADAGASCAR
  • MALAWI
  • NAMIBIA
  • NIGER
  • SENEGAL
  • SIERRA LEONE
  • SOMALIA
  • TANZANIA
  • THE GAMBIA
  • TOGO
  • UGANDA
  • ZAIRE
A Scorpion’s Welcome to West Africa
In 1973, I arrived as a Peace Corps Volunteer (PCV) in the small town of Boulsa in Upper Volta (Burkina Faso), West Africa.  Boulsa is ...
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Finding My Place in the Village
“An ni bara” she said to me in Dyula without breaking her stride. A load of firewood was on her head; a baby was held ...
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Khotso’s Success
Our son Jimmy was just one year old when Greg and I were sent to teach at a rural Lesotho boarding school on the outskirts ...
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A Headdress for the Headmistress
In January 1969, I arrived at my site about 40 miles west of Kisumu in Nyanza Province, Kenya. My assignment was to teach at Nyamira ...
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Papaya Generosity
I had a papaya tree outside my front door, growing right by my front steps of my porch, inside my gate in the town of Edea ...
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Bringing Irrigation to Tigray
Our project’s goal in 1967–68 was to promote irrigation cooperatives in Ethiopia’s Tigray province. Our group of around a dozen PCVs spent part of the ...
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Asia

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  • MALAYSIA
  • NEPAL
  • PHILIPPINES
  • THAILAND
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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For Those Who Question the Value of Peace Corps Service
My story begins in 1966 and is an account of what I believed for 37 years to be a failed project. I had many opportunities ...
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High Altitude Recipes
When I passed the Peace Corps exam in 1965, I was working as a secretary for the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington, D.C. I called ...
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EASTERN EUROPE AND
CENTRAL ASIA

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  • AFGHANISTAN
  • GEORGIA
  • INDIA
  • IRAN
  • MACEDONIA
  • NEPAL
  • POLAND
  • SLOVAKIA
  • TURKEY
  • UKRAINE
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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What I Learned in Poland
Christine A. Wolf Poland - 1996-1998 My gratitude for Adam’s skillful driving, combined with Poland’s complicated history and growing pains, had transformed my admiration for ...
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Man on a Mission
Louis Giancola India, 1965-67 In the southern India state of Andhra Pradesh, the Peace Corps assigned 30 volunteers to promote ....
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Using a Straw to Fix Power Sprayers.
Laurence Rubel India 1969-1971 In 1969 I was a member of a Peace Corps agricultural extension project sent to Thanjavur District, Tamil...
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Mystical Music
John Long Afghanistan 1973-1975 Shah mohammmed and I climbed out of the taxi, a Russian Volga, on the two-lane dirt road of the...
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LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN

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  • BOLIVIA
  • BRAZIL
  • COLOMBIA
  • COSTA RICA
  • DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
  • ECUADOR
  • EL SALVADOR
  • GUATEMALA
  • HONDURAS
  • PARAGUAY
  • PERU
  • ST. LUCIA
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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Angelito in my Camera
A young woman approached me one afternoon in our small farming town in the mountains just south of the Guatemalan border. We had not spoken ...
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A School Named After Me
I knew my Peace Corps service was going to be an amazing experience, but little did I know that I would be remembered for many ...
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Myths, Mysteries, and Milagros (Miracles)
In 1967 there was no virtual world except for the world of one’s imagination. After finishing a liberal arts degree in art education at Chatham ...
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My Beautiful Son
I lived in a one-room shack with an outdoor kitchen in the village of Desruisseaux. I had found an enjoyable life as an agricultural extension ...
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A Spindle Thrift: How a Toilet Paper Hanger Became a Souvenir
While the Vietnam War was foremost in my mind as a recent high school graduate, the summer of 1969 saw another conflict, the so-called “Soccer ...
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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
  • TONGA
  • VANUATU
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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Coconut Bird
Jack and Anne Weiss Micronesia, 1966–1968 “The main thing is to listen to people before you start a program, and then to work at their ...
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– President John F. Kennedy, March 1, 1961

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