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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
  • NIGERIA
  • SENEGAL
  • SIERRA LEONE
  • SOMALIA
  • TANZANIA
  • THE GAMBIA
  • TOGO
  • UGANDA
  • ZAIRE
My Eritrean Sister
I first noticed Mhret and her son Tefera in October 1964 when they arrived by bus in Adi Teclesan, the village in Eritrea where my ...
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From Czechoslovakia to Africa
I was born and grew up in Czechoslovakia, did competitive ballroom dancing, escaped in 1986 through Yugoslavia, came to the USA, learned English, earned a ...
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Learning of Loss and Dignity
Each school day in the town of Anecho began with our 400 students lining up in the quad outside their respective classrooms. Headmaster Etienne Adotevi ...
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The Story of a Little Boy with a Broken Arm
Journal entry, Bignona, Senegal, January 1967: A few weeks ago, a little boy came over to show us that his wrist was swollen stiff. It ...
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Kindness of Strangers
Picture a tiny village, just a few houses next to the lagoon that separates Keta—a coastal town and the center of traditional Ewe weaving—from Ghana’s ...
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Sixty-five Latrines
We always began digging a hole in the early morning…..and covered it with tin so no one would fall in the hole during the night.
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Asia

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  • KOREA
  • MALAYSIA
  • NEPAL
  • PHILIPPINES
  • THAILAND
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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  • AFGHANISTAN
  • GEORGIA
  • INDIA
  • IRAN
  • MACEDONIA
  • NEPAL
  • POLAND
  • SLOVAKIA
  • TURKEY
  • UKRAINE
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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Red velvet bridal wedding gown
Turkish Wedding Dress
Joanne Omang Turkey 1964–1966 Growing up as a navy brat, moving constantly, I fancied myself endlessly adaptable, easily making...
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Sewing in Nepal
Bernice L. Haner Nepal 1991–1993 After raising six children and working multiple jobs, it was finally time to retire. I put my retirement...
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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
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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Working With “Lost” People
Rosemarie Ricks Ecuador 1994–1996 In some ways, being a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador was less challenging for me than for most of...
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Carved Artesania
Nicola Dino Ecuador 1994–1997, Leaving Ecuador The last day of service in my community—Juan Montalvo, Province of Carchi—was one of the most...
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The Coal Pot
Deborah Manget St. Lucia 1978–1979 Peace Corps sent me to St. Lucia, an island in the Caribbean, to teach home economics to middle school...
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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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