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The Color of the Elephant

Author : Christine Herbert
Publisher : Genz Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781952919763
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (197 download)

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Download or read book The Color of the Elephant written by Christine Herbert and published by Genz Publishing. This book was released on 2022-01-04 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An outstanding new voice in memoir, Christine Herbert takes the reader on a "time-machine tour" of her Peace Corps volunteer service as a health worker and educator from 2004-2006 in Zambia. Rather than a retrospective, this narrative unfolds in the present tense, propelling the reader alongside the memoirist through a fascinating exploration of a life lived "off the grid." At turns harrowing, playful, dewy-eyed and wise, the author's heart and candor illuminate every chapter, whether she is the heroine of the tale or her own worst enemy. Even at her most petulant, the laugh-out-loud humor scuppers any "white savior" mentality and lays bare the undeniable humanity-and humility-of the storyteller. Through it all, an undeniable love for Zambia-its people, land and culture-shines through. A must-read for the armchair adventurer, a book about Zambia - a personal Peace Corps Memoir.

Making Peace with the World

Author : Richard Sitler
Publisher : Other Places Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0982261985
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (822 download)

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Download or read book Making Peace with the World written by Richard Sitler and published by Other Places Publishing. This book was released on 2010-03-10 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photo-documentary of Peace Corps volunteers serving communities around the world.

Voices from the Peace Corps

Author : Angene Wilson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813129826
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Voices from the Peace Corps written by Angene Wilson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2011-03-01 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps on March 1, 1961. In the fifty years since, nearly 200,000 Americans have served in 139 countries, providing technical assistance, promoting a better understanding of American culture, and bringing the world back to the United States. In Voices from the Peace Corps: Fifty Years of Kentucky Volunteers, Angene Wilson and Jack Wilson, who served in Liberia from 1962 to 1964, follow the experiences of volunteers as they make the decision to join, attend training, adjust to living overseas and the job, make friends, and eventually return home to serve in their communities. They also describe how the volunteers made a difference in their host countries and how they became citizens of the world for the rest of their lives. Among many others, the interviewees include a physics teacher who served in Nigeria in 1961, a smallpox vaccinator who arrived in Afghanistan in 1969, a nineteen-year-old Mexican American who worked in an agricultural program in Guatemala in the 1970s, a builder of schools and relationships who served in Gabon from 1989 to 1992, and a retired office administrator who taught business in Ukraine from 2000 to 2002. Voices from the Peace Corps emphasizes the value of practical idealism in building meaningful cultural connections that span the globe.

Once In A Blood Moon

Author : Dorothea Hubble Bonneau
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781947392861
Total Pages : 336 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (928 download)

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Download or read book Once In A Blood Moon written by Dorothea Hubble Bonneau and published by . This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Heaven's Hill plantation, upriver from Georgetown, South Carolina, 1807: Sixteen-year-old Alexandra de Gambia, daughter of an African-American planter and a mother who passes for white, balances on the tightrope between girlhood and the complicated adult world where one misstep can forever ruin a young woman's prospects. Her dream is to become to an accomplished musician. She will have a chance to impress her first public audience when she plays her violin in the Christmas Concert to be held in her white cousin's famous recital parlor. Alexandra's life turns upside down when her mother dies and her father is murdered by greedy newcomers eager to diminish the status of wealthy free people of color. If the murderers can dispose of Alexandra and her little brother, the only living heirs to Heaven's Hill, they can claim the prosperous estate for themselves. Alexandra and her brother run for their lives.Fearing she will be killed, Alexandra hides and watches as the usurpers capture her brother, lock him in the blacksmith's shop and burn the building to the ground. Guilt haunts her.Alexandra escapes from Heaven's Hill only to be caught by slave catchers from whom she conceals her identity. Sold and placed in a slave cabin, Alexandra befriends John Fowler, a ten-year-old indentured boy who reminds her of her brother. When the overseer threatens to work John to death, Alexandra risks her life to help the little boy to run away and rejoin his family in North Carolina. The secondary plot-line features Alexandra's love affair with a plantation owner's son.

The Unheard

Author : Josh Swiller
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book The Unheard written by Josh Swiller and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 1918 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes one young man's efforts to reconcile his deafness in an unforgiving, hearing world by undertaking a two-year sojourn in a remote village in Zambia as a Peace Corps volunteer, where he finds a remarkable world marked by both beauty and violence.

The Early Years of Peace Corps in Afghanistan

Author : Frances Hopkins Irwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935925361
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (253 download)

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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

Programming and training

Author : Peace Corps (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Programming and training written by Peace Corps (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Service Disrupted

Author : Tyler E. Lloyd
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780692922200
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (222 download)

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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:

Roles of the Volunteer in Development

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)

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Download or read book Roles of the Volunteer in Development written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Setting Up and Running a School Library

Author : Nicola Baird
Publisher : Heinemann International Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780435923044
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Setting Up and Running a School Library written by Nicola Baird and published by Heinemann International Incorporated. This book was released on 1994 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Diagrams and practical examples from teachers' experiences around the world illustrate the advice given. Shows how to choose books, a room and resources.Explains how to establish a simple classification and cataloguing system.Shows how to encourage active teacher and student involvement.Explains how to make the most of limited resources.Ideal for teachers and others who are not trained librarians.

Cold War Germany, the Third World, and the Global Humanitarian Regime

Author : Young-sun Hong
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107095573
Total Pages : 445 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Cold War Germany, the Third World, and the Global Humanitarian Regime written by Young-sun Hong and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-05 with total page 445 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines global humanitarian efforts involving the two German states and Third World liberation movements during the Cold War.

Children as Caregivers

Author : Jean Hunleth
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813588057
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Children as Caregivers written by Jean Hunleth and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2017-03-03 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Zambia, due to the rise of tuberculosis and the closely connected HIV epidemic, a large number of children have experienced the illness or death of at least one parent. Children as Caregivers examines how well intentioned practitioners fail to realize that children take on active caregiving roles when their guardians become seriously ill and demonstrates why understanding children’s care is crucial for global health policy. Using ethnographic methods, and listening to the voices of the young as well as adults, Jean Hunleth makes the caregiving work of children visible. She shows how children actively seek to “get closer” to ill guardians by providing good care. Both children and ill adults define good care as attentiveness of the young to adults’ physical needs, the ability to carry out treatment and medication programs in the home, and above all, the need to maintain physical closeness and proximity. Children understand that losing their guardians will not only be emotionally devastating, but that such loss is likely to set them adrift in Zambian society, where education and advancement depend on maintaining familial, reciprocal relationships. View a gallery of images from the book (https://www.flickr.com/photos/childrenascaregivers)

Another Africa

Author : Chinua Achebe
Publisher : Doubleday
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Another Africa written by Chinua Achebe and published by Doubleday. This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two great talents have joined together to create a unique d gorgeous book that fuses photographs, poetry, and text to create a view of present-day Africa that moves beyond the stereotypes commonly held by most Westerners. There are no shots of beautiful sand dunes and tropical savannas where herds of wildlife roam. Instead, this work peels away myths to explore the complexity, diversity, and human dimensions of a place called Africa -- one that celebrates the commonplace and exotic simultaneously. The ninety full-color photographs are highly subjective, a personal investigation that reflects the sensibilities, formal concerns, and the ongoing engagement of the photographer Robert Lyons. With the brilliant Chinua Achebe, a Nigerian, contributing his never-before-published poems and an essay, the book takes on another dimension. He presents a concise view of Africa today, including the individual and political issues facing its countries. His poems and his essay, written specifically for this book, deal with Africa on its own terms -- from within.This beautifully produced book with text by a "magical writer -- one of the greatest of the twentieth century" (Margaret Atwood) will be irresistible to anyone interested in Africa.

Hearings

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1514 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Hearings written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Foreign Affairs and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 1514 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

"Power to the People"

Author : United National Independence Party (Zambia). General Conference
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 76 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book "Power to the People" written by United National Independence Party (Zambia). General Conference and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

In Search of Pink Flamingos

Author : Susan E. Greisen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780999804841
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book In Search of Pink Flamingos written by Susan E. Greisen and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-02 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young Nebraska farm girl defies her parents and joins the Peace Corps in 1971 as a health educator in a remote village in Liberia. Her determination and commitment to the people she loves take her an adventurous journey of self-discovery.

How to Make an African Quilt

Author : Bonnie Lee Black
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780615773391
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (733 download)

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Download or read book How to Make an African Quilt written by Bonnie Lee Black and published by . This book was released on 2013-03-21 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we sew together the hoped-for future and the unfortunate past, the bright as well as the darker patches of our lives? How do we stitch cultural differences, join disparate worlds, to create something both beautiful and useful? Bonnie Lee Black subtly addresses these universal questions through vivid stories of her life-changing experience living and working in the fabled city of Segou, Mali, in West Africa. At the request of a talented group of Malian seamstresses, Black taught them the craft of American patchwork quilting and spearheaded an economic development effort called the Patchwork Project. She has now created a many-layered patchwork quilt of a book that brings that time and place and all its colorful characters to life on the page. Threaded throughout is the fictional narrative of Jeneba, a slave-quilter in the antebellum American South who had been kidnapped from the Kingdom of Segou as a child, as well as the real voices of the Malian women who took part in the Patchwork Project.