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Africa

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  • ESWATINI
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  • GABON
  • GHANA
  • KENYA
  • LESOTHO
  • LIBERIA
  • MADAGASCAR
  • MALAWI
  • NAMIBIA
  • NIGER
  • NIGERIA
  • SENEGAL
  • SIERRA LEONE
  • SOMALIA
  • TANZANIA
  • THE GAMBIA
  • TOGO
  • UGANDA
  • ZAIRE
Ethiopian traditional dress
The Extraordinary Ethiopian Dress
Courtney Arnold - Ethiopia - Early 1960's. Dresses worn by Ethiopian women impressed me with their beauty from the moment I saw them.
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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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Asia

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  • INDIA
  • KOREA
  • MACEDONIA
  • MALAYSIA
  • MONGOLIA
  • NEPAL
  • PHILIPPINES
  • THAILAND
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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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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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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EASTERN EUROPE AND
CENTRAL ASIA

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  • AFGHANISTAN
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  • INDIA
  • IRAN
  • MACEDONIA
  • NEPAL
  • POLAND
  • SLOVAKIA
  • TURKEY
  • UKRAINE
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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Closets
Jeffrey Janis Ukraine 2004 –2006 Upon my arrival in Ukraine in 2004, the Peace Corps staff advised me not to tell my host family or ...
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The Grand Project
Rebecca Madden-Sturges The Republic of Georgia 2005–2007 Within a few weeks after I arrived in Sagarejo in September of 2005, I began to feel very ...
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The hookah beside my fireplace
A Brass Hookah
Lex Rieffel India 1965–1967 My friends in ghaziabad, an industrial suburb of New Delhi, were too “modern” to smoke hookahs, but when...
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Properly Dressed for the Party
Lily Loh Slovakia, 1997-1999 I love costume parties! But when my husband George and I were invited to a costume party in our town...
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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
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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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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NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

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PACIFIC ISLANDS

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– President John F. Kennedy, March 1, 1961

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