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Africa

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  • THE GAMBIA
  • UGANDA
  • ZAIRE
A Daughter’s Pride
Arianna (Ari) Richard Eswatini 2017-2019 The first time someone called me their daughter in Eswatini, I felt intensely grateful before a sadness descended into my
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Diversity Day at Tororo
Gail Wadsworth Uganda 1970-72 Parents traveled from all parts of Uganda to honor and be honored by daughters wearing their regional traditions
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Simba and Tembo
For over 47 years, these two dark-brown, glass beer bottles sat idly on the top shelf of my bookcase with handicrafts and textbooks from my
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Lessons of the Bao Board
John Hatch Tanzania - 1963-66 During my first observation of a Bao game in 1964 in Kahama, Tanzania, my KiSwahili was not fluent in KiSwahili....
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Silver and Saddles
Cathy Sunshine Niger 1975–1977 During my second year as a health educator in Aderbissinat, Niger, my partner and I had new saddles ....
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Weyso - a jug used to carry camel's milk
Bonds across generations
Marty Ganzglass Somalia 1966-1968 Our friendship with Abdullahi and Mariam began almost by accident. Abdullahi and I worked together ....
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Asia

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Coconut Creations
Elinor Capehart Philippines - 1961-63 Before the road between Dumaguete City, the capital of Negros Orientale, and our village of ....
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Ghost Festival Awakening
Kevin F. F. Quigley Thailand 1976–1979, Country Director: Thailand 2012–2015 In Dansai, my students came to school in uniforms with their names stitched on the
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Thai Temple Rubbing
Bill Saphir Thailand 1967–1970 Cultures often define their uniqueness by creating epic poems or stories.  Ancient Greeks...
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New Teacher Arrives
Ken Shuey Malaysia 1963–1965 This painting is based on my own experience as a Peace Corps  Volunteer Teacher in upriver Sarawak on...
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Maria Clara Gown
Ann Jealous Philippines 1963–1965 I was twenty-two years old. There was no internet, no one had cellphones, few people travelled to far...
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Songket Cloth
Ron Myers Malaysia 1972–1974 I was assigned to teach Kimia dan Fizik (Chemistry and Physics) in Kedah on the northwest coast of...
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EASTERN EUROPE AND
CENTRAL ASIA

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  • UKRAINE
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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Tea-time in an Iranian School
Jim Heideman Iran 1974-1976 Each morning the jeep panel-delivery truck from the Mianeh Office of Education exited the traffic circle...
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Natanz Ceramics
Peter Deekle Iran 1968–1970 After living in two relatively cosmopolitan cities during my first four months in Iran, the Peace Corps...
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LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN

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  • PERU
  • ST. LUCIA
El Sueño Americano
Terese Maineri de Velasquez Guatemala 2003-2005 At age seven, I begged my mom to buy a tiny acrylic painting featuring a Guatemalan woman wearing traje,
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Project Feasibility vs. Pleasing the People
Mahlon Barash Peru 1965-1967
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Two Cultures Intertwined
Douglas Newlin El Salvador, 1965-67 In Nueva Esparta, El Salvador, I was a health educator and an advisor overseeing the construction of ....
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Fishing with Dynamite
Chic Dambach Colombia, 1967-1969 In my coastal community of Albornos and throughout rural Colombia, a machete is a universal tool...
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Miriam’s Dream
Joe Thigpen Brazil – 1963-1965 I was a 21-year-old Peace Corps Volunteer working in community development in Capinzal, Santa...
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Images of Peace
Alyssa Galik Colombia 2016–2018 Cartagena has always been a place of contradictions, a city of “magical realism” (realismo mágico), where...
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NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

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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
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  • PAPUA NEW GUINEA
  • VANUATU
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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A Family Connection
Jennifer Neczypor Vanuatu 2009–2011 A new volunteer, I clambered into the open back of a truck on my way to a village school on the island...
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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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