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Africa

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  • BOTSWANA
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  • CAMEROON
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  • COTE d'IVOIRE
  • ERITREA
  • ESWATINI
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  • GABON
  • GHANA
  • KENYA
  • LESOTHO
  • LIBERIA
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  • MALAWI
  • NAMIBIA
  • NIGER
  • NIGERIA
  • SENEGAL
  • SIERRA LEONE
  • SOMALIA
  • TANZANIA
  • THE GAMBIA
  • TOGO
  • UGANDA
  • ZAIRE
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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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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Asia

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  • KOREA
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  • 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
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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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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LATIN AMERICA AND CARIBBEAN

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  • BOLIVIA
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  • COLOMBIA
  • COSTA RICA
  • DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
  • ECUADOR
  • EL SALVADOR
  • GUATEMALA
  • HONDURAS
  • NICARAGUA
  • PARAGUAY
  • PERU
  • ST. LUCIA
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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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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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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