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Author : American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734778885
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (788 download)
Download or read book Peace Corps At 60 written by American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Amelie M. Mothie
Publisher : Trafford Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1426947151
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (269 download)
Download or read book Life After Retirement written by Amelie M. Mothie and published by Trafford Publishing. This book was released on 2010-11-30 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life After Retirement shares the story of Amelie Mothies experiences after retirement, when, at the age of sixty-seven, she joined the Peace Corps. She had entertained the idea for a long time; she longed to learn more about the people of whom her grandmother had spoken so freely throughout her childhood. It was a big decision to go to Africa and to leave everything behind to pursue her dream, but she finally did it two years after retirement. She had heard many stories of disease and poverty in Africa, but she was encouraged by her belief that African countries had done much more in a few decades of independence than their colonial governments had done in centuries. She was fascinated by the African personalities that had begun to emerge through literature, arts, music, sports, and fashion. Her two-year term in West Africa was full of exhilarating moments as well as many painful, frustrating, and discouraging instances of dealing with the ravages of disease and poverty. In the end, for her, all the bad days were worth it in light of the good memories she shared with her new African friends and other volunteers.
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (319 download)
Download or read book Peace Corps written by United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Foreign Relations and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Considers S. 2000, the Peace Corps Act, to establish permanent Peace Corps to help peoples of interested countries in meeting needs for skilled manpower.
Author : Greg Alder
Publisher : Greg Alder
ISBN 13 : 0988682206
Total Pages : 266 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (886 download)
Download or read book The Mountain School written by Greg Alder and published by Greg Alder. This book was released on 2013 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Kingdom of Lesotho is a mountainous enclave in southern Africa, and like mountain zones throughout the world it is isolated, steeped in tradition, and home to few outsiders. The people, known as Basotho, are respected in the area as the only tribe never to be defeated by European colonizers. Greg Alder arrives in Tsoeneng in 2003 as the village's first foreign resident since 1966. Back then, the Canadian priest who had been living there was robbed and murdered in his quarters. Set up as a Peace Corps teacher at the village's secondary school, Alder finds himself incompetent in so many unexpected ways. How do you keep warm in this place where it snows but there is no electricity? How do you feed yourself where there are no grocery stores let alone restaurants? Tsoeneng is a world apart from his home in America, but Alder persists in adapting. He learns to grow food, he learns to speak the strange local language, and he makes enough friends such that he is eventually invited to participate in initiation rites. Yet even as he seems accepted into the Tsoeneng fold, he sees how much of an outsider he will always remain-and perhaps want to remain. The Mountain School is insightful and candid, at times accepting and at times rebellious. It is the ultimate tale of the transplant.
Author : Peace Corps (U.S.). Office of Planning, Policy, and Analysis
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Peace Corps Volunteer Handbook written by Peace Corps (U.S.). Office of Planning, Policy, and Analysis and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Angene Hopkins Wilson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813129753
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Voices from the Peace Corps written by Angene Hopkins Wilson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2011-04-08 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on more than one hundred oral history interviews, [this title] follows the the experiences of Kentuckians who chose to live and work in other countries around the world, fostering close, lasting relationships with the people they served. -- jacket.
Author : Peace Corps (U.S.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book PACA written by Peace Corps (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This idea book was designed to give a focused history and description of Participatory Analysis for Community Action (PACA), while sharing excellent examples from the field that illustrate how volunteers and their communities, host country organizations, and Peace Corps projects have used these tools successfully.
Author : Peace Corps (U.S.). Information Collection and Exchange
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Nonformal Education (NFE) Manual written by Peace Corps (U.S.). Information Collection and Exchange and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stanley Meisler
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807050512
Total Pages : 289 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book When the World Calls written by Stanley Meisler and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2012-02-07 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the World Calls is the first complete and balanced look at the Peace Corps’s first fifty years. Revelatory and candid, journalist Stanley Meisler’s engaging narrative exposes Washington infighting, presidential influence, and the Volunteers’ unique struggles abroad. He deftly unpacks the complicated history with sharp analysis and memorable anecdotes, taking readers on a global trek starting with the historic first contingent of Volunteers to Ghana on August 30, 1961. In the years since, in spite of setbacks, the ethos of the Peace Corps has endured, largely due to the perseverance of the 200,000 Volunteers themselves, whose shared commitment to effect positive global change has been a constant in one of our most complex—and valued—institutions.
Author : Stanley Meisler
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807050490
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book When the World Calls written by Stanley Meisler and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work presents a history of the Peace Corp and exposes Washington infighting, presidential influence, and the struggles volunteers faced abroad. Not an institutional history, the book is a look at the Peace Corps's first fifty years. On October 14, 1960, at an impromptu speech at the University of Michigan, John F. Kennedy presented an idea to a crowd of restless students for an organization that would rally American youth in service. Though the speech lasted barely three minutes, his germ of an idea morphed dramatically into Kennedy's most enduring legacy, the Peace Corps. From this offhand campaign remark, shaped speedily by President Kennedy's brother-in-law, Sargent Shriver, in 1961, the organization ascended with remarkable excitement and publicity, attracting the attention of thousands of hopeful young Americans. The author unpacks the complicated history with sharp analysis and anecdotes, taking readers on a global trek starting with the historic first contingent of Volunteers to Ghana on August 30, 1961. The Peace Corps has served as an American emblem for world peace and friendship, yet few realize that it has sometimes tilted its agenda to meet the demands of the White House. Tracing its history through the past nine presidential administrations, the author discloses, for instance, how Lyndon Johnson became furious when Volunteers opposed his invasion of the Dominican Republic; he reveals how Richard Nixon literally tried to destroy the Peace Corps, and how Ronald Reagan endeavored to make it an instrument of foreign policy in Central America. But somehow the ethos of the Peace Corps endured, largely due to the perseverance of the 200,000 volunteers themselves, whose shared commitment to effect positive global change has been a constant in one of our most complex-and valued-institutions.
Author : Peace Corps (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (33 download)
Download or read book Peace Corps written by Peace Corps (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Williams S Aaron
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781737404606
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (46 download)
Download or read book A Life Unimagined written by Williams S Aaron and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-28 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Moritz Thomsen
Publisher : University of Washington Press
ISBN 13 : 9780295969282
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (692 download)
Download or read book Living Poor; a Peace Corps Chronicle written by Moritz Thomsen and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 1969 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the age of 48, Moritz Thomsen sold his pig farm and joined the Peace Corps. As he tells the story, his awareness of the comic elements in the human situation--including his own--and his ability to convey it in fast-moving, earthy prose have madeLiving Poora classic. "Hilariously funny at times, grimly sad at others and elavened with perceptive insights into the ways of the people and with breathtaking descriptions of the Ecuadorian landscape."-St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Author : Peace Corps (U.S.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book The Peace Corps Handbook written by Peace Corps (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Gerard T. Rice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (1 download)
Download or read book Twenty Years of Peace Corps written by Gerard T. Rice and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peace Corps (U.S.)
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 6 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (66 download)
Download or read book Older Volunteers in the Peace Corps written by Peace Corps (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 6 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Evelyn Kohl LaTorre
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1631527185
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (315 download)
Download or read book Between Inca Walls written by Evelyn Kohl LaTorre and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At twenty-one, Evelyn is naïve about life and love. Raised in a small Montana town, she moves at age sixteen with her devout Catholic family to California. There, she is drawn to Latino culture when she works among the migrant workers. During the summer of her junior year in college, Evelyn travels to a small Mexican town to help set up a school and a library—an experience that whets her appetite for a life full of both purpose and adventure. After graduation, Evelyn joins the Peace Corps and is sent to perform community development work in a small mountain town in the Andes of Perú. There, she and her roommate, Marie, search for meaningful projects and adjust to living with few amenities. Over the course of eighteen months, the two young women work in a hospital, start 4-H clubs, attend campesino meetings, and teach PE in a school with dirt floors. Evelyn is chosen queen of the local boys’ high school and—despite her resolve to resist such temptations—falls in love with a university student. As she comes of age, Evelyn learns about life and love the hard way when she must choose between following the religious rules of her youth and giving in to her sexual desires.
