By Admin1 (admin) (pool-151-196-165-54.balt.east.verizon.net - 151.196.165.54) on Monday, October 27, 2003 - 1:07 am: Edit Post |
Peace Corps' policies don't honor promise
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Quote:Many young people are finding themselves in villages and jungles without a buddy, radio or sufficient information to keep themselves safe. Assaults have more than doubled since 1991, and evidence gathered by this newspaper suggests that many crimes against volunteers aren't reported at all.
The agency's lack of urgency about violence that has increased over the years is indicative of a deeper problem. The Peace Corps isn't sufficiently focused on the success and security of its volunteers once they're in the field.
Meanwhile, the Peace Corps masks the dangers to volunteers created by its absentee-management policies by understating the horrors that have happened. When tragedies have happened, in too many instances, the instinct has been to hush up the incident rather than tell other volunteers or even families of the victims what they deserve to know.