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Africa

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  • ESWATINI
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  • GHANA
  • KENYA
  • LESOTHO
  • LIBERIA
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  • MALAWI
  • NAMIBIA
  • NIGER
  • NIGERIA
  • 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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  • KOREA
  • MALAYSIA
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  • PHILIPPINES
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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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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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EASTERN EUROPE AND
CENTRAL ASIA

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  • NEPAL
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  • TURKEY
  • UKRAINE
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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Chapan Coat
Randall Ernest Trudelle Afghanistan, 1968–1969, Bolivia 1970, Peru 1971 Early in my first Peace Corps assignment, I was an architect without a home.  In 1968, ...
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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
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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A PCV Joins the Honduran Army (Almost)
Leonardo Alonso, D.O. Honduras 1982-84 In 1982, fresh out of college, I joined the Peace Corps, as a first generation Cuban-American.
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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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NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

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PACIFIC ISLANDS

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  • KIRIBATI
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  • PAPUA NEW GUINEA
  • SAMOA
  • TONGA
  • VANUATU
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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