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Author : Travis Hellstrom
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557570980
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)
Download or read book Unofficial Peace Corps Volunteer Handbook written by Travis Hellstrom and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 257 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 : Janet Givens
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781508767794
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (677 download)
Download or read book At Home on the Kazakh Steppe written by Janet Givens and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2014-08-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When a mid-fifties grandmother follows her husband of just three years into the Peace Corps, she leaves behind a promising new career, her home, two brand-new grandbabies, and her beloved dog. Assigned to Kazakhstan, a Central Asian country finding its own way after generations under Soviet rule, she too must find a way to be in a world different from what she knew. Feeling the stresses of a difficult new language, surprising cultural differences, and unexpected changes in her husband, Givens questions the loss of all she's given up. Will it be worth it?
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 : Tyler E. Lloyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692922200
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (222 download)
Download or read book Service Disrupted written by Tyler E. Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Adrian Panaro
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734720303
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Afghanistan Photographs 1971-1972 written by Adrian Panaro and published by . This book was released on 2020-06 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1971, Arthur Panaro joined the Peace Corps and was posted to Kabul, Afghanistan, to teach English at the University there. A year later, he was joined by his brother Adrian and the two set off to explore the regions surrounding Kabul and beyond. In the process, they shared a camera to record their impressions of the land and its people. This book documents their journey in photographs and essays.
Author : Peace Corps (U.S.). Office of Planning, Policy, and Analysis
Publisher :
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 : Robert Klein
Publisher : Wheatmark, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1604944579
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (49 download)
Download or read book Being First written by Robert Klein and published by Wheatmark, Inc.. This book was released on 2010 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Robert Klein, one of the initial Peace Corps volunteers who served in Ghana from 1961-1963, describes the creation of the Peace Corps and the experiences of the first cohort of volunteer teachers serving in Ghana.
Author : Peter Frumkin
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674046788
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (467 download)
Download or read book Serving Country and Community written by Peter Frumkin and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-06 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Who benefits from AmeriCorps, VISTA, and National Civilian Community Corps? Frumkin and Jastrzab make important recommendations on how to improve the programs and resolve some of the political and administrative issues which have plagued these initiatives in the past two decades."ùJames Youniss, Catholic University of America --
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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 40 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)
Download or read book Stories from Indonesia written by and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 40 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 : 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.
Author : Joan Heron
Publisher : PublishAmerica
ISBN 13 : 1456045822
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Chai Budesh? Anyone for Tea?: A Peace Corps Memoir of Turkmenistan written by Joan Heron and published by PublishAmerica. This book was released on 2008-09-08 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She was a sixty-two-year-old California grandmother, retired program director and college professor when she joined the Peace Corps. Within months, Joan Heron found herself in Turkmenistan, a small, impoverished country born out of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Using meager resources, a beginner’s grasp of the Russian language, tremendous trust in friendship and a can-do will, Ms. Heron embarks on a two-year adventure in an alien, male chauvinist, often obstructionist environment. Her compelling true story, told with humor and immense compassion for the people and their plight, reaches across borders, cultures and politics to illuminate the strength and riches of the human spirit.
Author : Travis Hellstrom
Publisher : Hatherleigh Press
ISBN 13 : 1578266467
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (782 download)
Download or read book The Peace Corps Volunteer's Handbook written by Travis Hellstrom and published by Hatherleigh Press. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE PEACE CORPS MAY BE “THE TOUGHEST JOB YOU’LL EVER LOVE,” BUT YOU DON’T HAVE TO LEARN THAT THE HARD WAY. The Peace Corps Volunteer’s Handbook is both your guide and your companion. Learn from the experiences of outstanding former Volunteers, while cataloging your own experiences with the Peace Corps from the very beginning of your service to the end. Designed to be with you each step of the way—from applying to Peace Corps, starting your service, adjusting to your host country, and making your way home again—this handbook combines the best parts of a guidebook with all the creativity of a personal journal. This is the handbook every Peace Corps Volunteer wishes for, something no one has provided before—a chance to set down on paper all the amazing experiences the Peace Corps has to offer, right next to the memories of the Volunteers who came before. What are you waiting for?
Author : Frances Hopkins Irwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935925361
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (253 download)
Download or read book The Early Years of Peace Corps in Afghanistan written by Frances Hopkins Irwin and published by . This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Early Years of Peace Corps in Afghanistan: A Promising Time, by Frances Hopkins Irwin and Will A. Irwin, February 2014 In 1962, nine U.S. Peace Corps volunteers arrived in Kabul. Half a century later, at a critical moment of transition in Afghanistan, this book describes what Peace Corps Volunteers learned during the Cold War about how diversity among peoples can be used to enrich cultures, rather than homogenize or destroy them. Before Peace Corps left Afghanistan in 1979, 1650 volunteers had experienced slices of a rapidly changing Afghanistan. This is the story of the first four years, how, under the guidance of first director Robert L Steiner, the volunteers learned to work within Afghan culture and overcame the initial skepticism of Afghans and the Kabul international community, and how by 1966 Peace Corps had grown from a cautious start with five English teachers, three nurses, and a mechanic all in Kabul to 200 volunteers working in all parts of Afghanistan. Fran and Will Irwin frame the story around conversations with Bob Steiner, who brought his ability to speak Persian and his experience growing up and working as a U.S. cultural affairs officer in Iran to building the Peace Corps program in Afghanistan. They draw on their own experience as volunteers, the recollections of other volunteers and staff members, and materials from personal and public records. The book includes 80 pages of writing by volunteers in Afghanistan for now hard-to-find 1960s publications as well as two dozen photographs and a discussion of sources. "The authors have prepared a book of historic significance for the Peace Corps." Foreword by Saif R. Samady, former Deputy Minister of Education in Afghanistan "What makes this book a must-read-for Afghans, Americans, and others interested in international cooperation-is that it provides an example of an appreciated and cost-effective aid program, one that worked." Nour Rahimi, former Editor of the Kabul Times "A Promising Time is thus an essential work for anyone interested in the history of American/Afghan relations." Carl H. Klaus, Founding Director, University of Iowa Nonfiction Writing Program
Author : Parker Borg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935925019
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Answering Kennedy's Call written by Parker Borg and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years after President Kennedy signed the 1961 Executive Order creating the Peace Corps, nearly 100 former volunteers who joined the new organization in the first year for service in the Philippines recall why they joined, what they experienced, and how this service in the Philippines affected their lives. In addition a half dozen members of the Peace Corps staff in the Philippines and a similar number of Filipinos have contributed their recollections from the period. The book includes photos of individuals from both the 1960s and more recently as well as maps showing communities of service. The Peace Corps program in the Philippines was the first in Asia. Three factors set it apart from others during the early years of the Peace Corps' existence. First, it was the largest program in the world, absorbing 25 per cent of all volunteers at the beginning. Second, all volunteers in the first years were assigned to be "teacher's aides," a position that was never clearly defined and that the Country Director later admitted was a "non-job." And third, the Philippine program occurred in a nation that only fifteen years earlier had become independent from the US, having been America's single effort at establishing an imperialist colonial empire. This history gave the Philippine program a distinctly different political and social dynamic from what was the case in all of the other early Peace Corps countries. These are the reminiscences of a group of young Americans of varying degrees of idealism who answered President Kennedy's call to do what they could for their country. Assigned each to a separate school in the central part of the country, they lived far from the bright lights of Manila. The stories illustrate varying degrees of integration into the local culture, different ways of coping with the frustrations of their "non-job," and what many learned as they came to terms with themselves living far from familiar comforts on a salary of about $55 per month. Above all the stories tell of the determination and spirit of these early volunteers in establishing a strong basis for one of the important first Peace Corps programs.
Author : John Sumser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780897335430
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (354 download)
Download or read book A Land Without Time written by John Sumser and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time, the story of Afghanistan prior to, and during, the communist coup of 1979 is told from the perspective of an American working as a Peace Corps volunteer in Afghanistan.
