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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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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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Asia

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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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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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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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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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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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NORTH AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST

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PACIFIC ISLANDS

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