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Africa

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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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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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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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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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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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  • 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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  • PARAGUAY
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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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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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NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

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PACIFIC ISLANDS

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