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Gail Wadsworth
Uganda 1970-72
Parents traveled from all parts of Uganda to honor and be honored by daughters wearing their regional traditions
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 …
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….
Cathy Sunshine
Niger 1975–1977
During my second year as a health educator in Aderbissinat, Niger, my partner and I had new saddles ….
Marty Ganzglass
Somalia 1966-1968
Our friendship with Abdullahi and Mariam began almost by accident. Abdullahi and I worked together ….
Janet Matts
Kenya 1977-79
I was lucky to be one of three volunteers asked to start the first school for children with special needs in…
Elinor Capehart
Philippines – 1961-63
Before the road between Dumaguete City, the capital of Negros Orientale, and our village of ….
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 pockets of starched…
Bill Saphir
Thailand 1967–1970
Cultures often define their uniqueness by creating epic poems or stories. Ancient Greeks…
Ken Shuey
Malaysia 1963–1965
This painting is based on my own experience as a Peace Corps Volunteer Teacher in upriver Sarawak on…
Ann Jealous
Philippines 1963–1965
I was twenty-two years old. There was no internet, no one had cellphones, few people travelled to far…
Ron Myers
Malaysia 1972–1974
I was assigned to teach Kimia dan Fizik (Chemistry and Physics) in Kedah on the northwest coast of…
Christine A. Wolf
Poland – 1994-1996
My gratitude for Adam’s skillful driving, combined with Poland’s complicated history and growing pains, had transformed my admiration for Poland into love.
Louis Giancola
India, 1965-67
In the southern India state of Andhra Pradesh, the Peace Corps assigned 30 volunteers to promote ….
Laurence Rubel
India 1969-1971
In 1969 I was a member of a Peace Corps agricultural extension project sent to Thanjavur District, Tamil…
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…
Jim Heideman
Iran 1974-1976
Each morning the jeep panel-delivery truck from the Mianeh Office of Education exited the traffic circle…
Peter Deekle
Iran 1968–1970
After living in two relatively cosmopolitan cities during my first four months in Iran, the Peace Corps…
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,
Douglas Newlin
El Salvador, 1965-67
In Nueva Esparta, El Salvador, I was a health educator and an advisor overseeing the construction of ….
Chic Dambach
Colombia, 1967-1969
In my coastal community of Albornos and throughout rural Colombia, a machete is a universal tool…
Joe Thigpen
Brazil – 1963-1965
I was a 21-year-old Peace Corps Volunteer working in community development in Capinzal, Santa…
Alyssa Galik
Colombia 2016–2018
Cartagena has always been a place of contradictions, a city of “magical realism” (realismo mágico), where…
Richard Wallace
Morocco 1977-1979
My travels to produce Ministry of Agriculture films and printed materials enhanced my appreciation…
Peggy Schaeffer
Yemen 1978–1979
I had hardly heard of the place in 1978, when a Peace Corps recruiter called and said, “How about…
Sharon Keld
Morocco 2006–2008
I served in small business development in the Middle Atlas Mountains of Morocco. Azrou, a market…
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….
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…
Sheila Newlin
Papua New Guinea, 2000
From a small winter-cold town in Wyoming, I headed to my teaching assignment in Papua New Guinea…
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 Pacific…
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 level.”
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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