• 2007.12.08: December 8, 2007: Headlines: Service: Philadelphia Inquirer: RPCV Frank Lenik shares metal detector that will be used to hunt mines  Wednesday, December 31, 2008 - 11:33 am [1]

• March 23, 2005: Headlines: Directors - Shriver: Service: Huntington Herald: Anthony Shriver's 'Best Buddies' program builds bonds among students Saturday, March 26, 2005 - 2:40 am [1]

• 2006: Service: Ecuador RPCV Mark Mahoney writes: As a former Peace Corps volunteer and father of a soon-to-be sixth-grader, I started preparing in the spring of 2006 to lead a return journey to a country where I had served almost 30 years ago - Ecuador 11 October 2006
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2006; COS - Ecuador; Return to our Country of Service - Ecuador

• 2006: Service: Bulgaria Peace corps Volunteer Andrew Hamilton writes: The Peace Corps Bubble 9 October 2006
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2006; COS - Bulgaria; Blogs - Bulgaria; Speaking Out; Service

• 2006: Service: Ghana RPCV Isaac Edvalson is the founder of Africa's Tomorrow, a nonprofit corporation that brings students from rural parts of Africa to the United States to attend college 9 October 2006
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2006; COS - Ghana; Service; NGO's

• 2006: Service: Walt Shotwell writes: A case for mandatory national service 1 October 2006
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2006; National Service; Speaking Out; Presidents - Kennedy

• 2006: Service: Congo Kinshasa RPCV Beth Duff-Brown writes: Congo Middle Class Struggles to Emerge 27 September 2006
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2006; COS - Congo Kinshasa; Return to our Country of Service - Congo Kinshasa

• 2006: Service: Congo Kinshasa RPCV Beth Duff-Brown writes: As the villagers did the last time I visited, they sang songs throughout the night at the party I had arranged 11 September 2006
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2006; COS - Congo Kinshasa; Return to our Country of Service - Congo Kinshasa

• 2006: Service: RPCV Janet Littlefield has built an orphanage in in the village of Chigamba to shelter, feed, and give medical care to homelss children 7 September 2006
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2006; COS - Malawi; Service; Children; Orphans

• 2006: Service: Turkmenistan RPCV Dorothy Baiza helps Gulshat Tureshova gain her hearing 4 September 2006
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2006; COS - Turkmenistan; Service

• 2006: Service: For the third time in four years, Kenya RPCV Michael Farley trekked 170 miles on what’s called a “proper walk,” one without a guarantee of survival, to raise money for African orphans 3 September 2006
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2006; COS - Kenya; Adventure; Service; AIDS

• 2006: Service: Journalist Beth Duff-Brown, is in the Democratic Republic of Congo where she was a Peace Corps volunteer from 1979 to 1981 31 August 2006
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2006; COS - Congo Kinshasa; Journalism; Return to our Country of Service - Congo Kinshasa

• 2006: Service: Kenya RPCV Michael Farley completes “Proper Walks” in Kenya 18 August 2006
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2006; COS - Kenya; Adventure; Service; AIDS

• 2006: Service: Kenya RPCV Michael Farley organizes “Proper Walks” (the Kenyan term for a long trek) to help raise money for the Makindu Children’s Program orphans 2 August 2006
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2006; COS - Kenya; Adventure; Service; AIDS

• 2006: Service: Cameron RPCV Pauline Waggoner worked with fellow Habitat for Humanity volunteers from across the country and from all walks of life in St. Bernard Parish 28 July 2006
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2006; COS - Cameroon; Service

• 2006: Service: Before the Embera Indians, the indigenous people of the Darien rainforest in Panama, met Peace Corps Volunteer Jim Brunton, they did not know how to use a tape measure 27 July 2006
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2006; COS - Panama; NGO's; Service

• 2006: Service: Chile RPCV Evadna Bartlett writes: Former Peace Corps members, now in their 60s and 70s, are thinking of how to help 18 July 2006
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2006; COS - Chile; Religion; Catholicism; Service; Older Volunteers

• 2006: Service: Panama RPCV James A. Brunton Jr. says the Embera are a proud and healthy people, but said they live in remote villages with little contact with the outside world 18 July 2006
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2006; COS - Panama; NGO's; Service

• 2006: Service: RPCV Ric Haas founded the Fistula Foundation to help women with fistula in Ethiopia 11 July 2006
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2006; COS - Ethiopia; Service; Medicine; California

• 2006: Service: A $6,000 solar-powered lighting system will be installed at the Givogi Secondary School in August by Kenya RPCV Mark Maxam and other volunteers from across the country 11 July 2006
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2006; COS - Kenya; Service; Solar Energy; New York

• 2006: Service: Panama RPCV James A. Brunton Jr. is the force behind the 12-year, $1.5 million, "Fitzcarraldo"-like feat of building a 92-foot boat out of rain forest hardwoods with indigenous labor 8 July 2006
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2006; COS - Panama; NGO's; Service

• 2006: Service: Christopher H. Sheppard writes: America should institute a national service requirement — a universal draft 5 July 2006
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2006; National Service

• 2006: Service: Liberia RPCV Ann Easterly started African Children's Libraries 4 July 2006
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2006; COS - Liberia; NGO's; Libraries; Service

• 2006: Service: Ecuador RPCV Dave Schweidenback send bicycles overseas with "Pedals for Progress" 22 June 2006
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2006; COS - Ecuador; Service; Bicycles; NGO's

• 2006: Service: Ecuador RPCV Dave Schweidenback's Pedals for Progress ships its 100,000th bike 18 June 2006
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2006; COS - Ecuador; Service; Bicycles; NGO's

• 2006: Service: Parents establish scholarship to carry on Peace Corps work of their daughter Elizabeth Bowers in Zambia 12 June 2006
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2006; COS - Zambia; Service; Oregon

• 2006: Service: Kenya RPCV Yvonne Taylor wins Colgate Humanitarian Award 2 June 2006
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2006; COS - Kenya; Awards; Service; NGO's; New York

• 2006: Service: Niger RPCV Marie Kenyon, is managing attorney for the Legal Assistance Ministry of Catholic Charities 23 May 2006
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2006; COS - Niger; Law; Service; Missouri

• 2006: Service: Ghana RPCV John Walsh is treasurer of the Baraka School, an international educational program designed to provide a cross-cultural educational experience in Kenya to American inner-city youth 18 May 2006
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2006; COS - Ghana; COS - Kenya; Service; Maryland

• 2006: Service: Emergency room doctor Jack Saunders recently returned to the African country of Niger, nearly 40 years after he served there in the Peace Corps from 1966-69 10 May 2006
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2006; COS - Niger; Return to our Country of Service - Niger; Service; Medicine

• 2006: Service: Ecuador RPCV Susan Hirschle coordinates care for expatriates facing any health issue around the world 9 May 2006
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2006; COS - Ecuador; Nursing

• 2006: Service: RPCV Alan Coyne returns to Peru after 37 years 8 May 2006
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2006; COS - Peru; Return to our Country of Service - Peru; South Carolina

• 2006: Service: RPCV Patricia Donahue and 10-year-old student doing well after kidney transplant 2 May 2006
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2006; Service; Medicine

• 2006: Service: RPCV Patricia Donahue donates kidney so her student can live 10 April 2006
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2006; Service; Medicine

• 2006: Service: Diagnosed with lung cancer, RPCV John Lesnak gets a chance to revisit South Korea 9 April 2006
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2006; COS - Korea; Return to our Country of Service - Korea; Cancer; Minnesota

• 2006: Service: Darien Book Aid tries to answer 100 percent of Peace Corps requests 6 April 2006
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2006; Books; Service

• 2006: Service: Samoa RPCV Silver Hjellen sponsors grandchildren in vacations that combine travel with volunteer work 6 April 2006
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2006; COS - Samoa; Service

• 2006: Service: RPCV Tom Nighswander says: Actions prove halfway 'round the world isn't really that far 21 March 2006
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2006; COS - Malawi; Service; Alaska

• 2006: Service: Ecuador RPCV Dave Schweidenback's Pedals for Progress rolls along in 15th year 12 March 2006
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2006; COS - Ecuador; Service; Bicycles; NGO's

• 2006: Service: Keith and Jenny Gelber met as Peace Corps Volunteers in Zambia, now helping African farmers 10 March 2006
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2006; COS - Zambia; Small Business; Service; Marriage

• 2006: Service: Bush presents President's Volunteer Service Award today to Honduras RPCV Amber Davis-Collins 9 March 2006
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2006; COS - Honduras; Service; Awards

• 2006: Service: Bush presents President's Volunteer Service Award to Honduras RPCV Amber Davis-Collins 9 March 2006
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2006; COS - Honduras; Service; Awards

• 2006: Service: Tanzania RPCV Brian Singer founded Project Zawadi, a non-profit organization that supports orphaned and vulnerable children 9 March 2006
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2006; COS - Tanzania; Service; NGO's

• 2006: Service: RPCVs Dr. Tom Nighswander and his wife Ruth return to Malawi to work at Malawi Children's Village, a home for orphans whose parents have died from AIDS 7 March 2006
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2006; COS - Malawi; Service; AIDS; HIV; Alaska

• 2006: Service: Dressing up as a headhunter was just something Bill Deck did as a lark during the time that he taught science at a secondary school in Malaysian Borneo as a Peace Corps volunteer 19 February 2006
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2006; COS - Malaysia; Humor; Return to our Country of Service - Malaysia; North Carolina

• 2006: Service: Troy Montes may stay another year as a Peace Corps Volunteer in El Salvador 17 February 2006
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2006

• 2006: Service: Warm Hearth is the brainchild of a former Peace Corps volunteer, Natalie Rizzieri, who served in Armenia for two years 2 February 2006
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2006; COS - Armenia; Service

• 2006: Service: Paraguay RPCV Charles Brennick starts operation InterConnection 9 January 2006
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2006; COS - Paraguay; NGO's; Computers; Service

• 2006: Service: Paraguay RPCV Charles Brennick starts operation InterConnection 9 January 2006
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2006; COS - Paraguay; NGO's; Computers; Service

• 2006: Service: Iran RPCV Paul Barker named Lewis & Clark Distinguished Alumnus 6 January 2006
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2006; COS - Iran; Awards; Service

• 2006: Service: Murray versus Vaughn Case reviewed 1 January 2006
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2006; Jack Vaughn; Jack Vaughn (Director 1966- 1969); Law; COS - Chile

• 2005: Service: 2005: Sean D. White served in Ukraine beginning in 2005 31 December 2005
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2005

• 2005: Service: Honduras RPCV Peter Von der Lippe created a Hispanic advisory committee at the Red Cross chapter, then a multicultural committee 30 December 2005
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2005; COS - Honduras; Service; Hispanic Issues; Virginia

• 2005: Service: Nepal RPCV Fran Chamberlain has gone back to one of his early stops in life to help once again in India 19 December 2005
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2005; COS - India; COS - Nepal; Service; California

• 2005: Service: Doris Kearns Goodwin says: If Bush had challenged us, as Roosevelt did after Pearl Harbor, he could have had the public health system expanded to worry about potential biological attack, he could have had more people in the Peace Corps and Teacher Corps, he could have more of us studying languages and cultures just as we did after Sputnik 8 December 2005
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2005; September 11; Service

• 2005: Service: Around the world, over four decades, more than 175,000 Americans have served in the Peace Corps. However, the 7,700 currently in service are a far cry from President John F. Kennedy's vision of 100,000 "citizen ambassadors." It is time to reach that goal. 7 December 2005
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2005; National Service; Speaking Out; Expansion

• 2005: Service: Pakistan RPCV Harry Baltzer honored by peace center 24 November 2005
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2005; COS - Pakistan; Service

• 2005: Service: Papua New Guinea RPCV Kevin Groner founded Advanced Patient Advocacy to help patients who can't pay 16 November 2005
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2005; COS - Papua New Guinea; Service; Business; Medicine; Maryland

• 2005: Service: Tunisia RPCV Dr. Michael Gordon establishes International Fellowship 9 November 2005
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2005; COS - Tunisia; Service; Medicine; Jewish Issues

• 2005: Service: Guatemala RPCV Stuart Conway co-founds trees, water & people 1 November 2005
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2005; COS - Guatemala; Forestry; NGO's; Service

• 2005: Service: Mayor Tom Weisner presents recipients with a certificate thanking them for their generosity and a tiny pin that reads "volunteer" 19 October 2005
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2005; RPCV Tom Weisner (Solomon Islands); COS - Solomon Islands; City Government; Service; Awards; Illinois

• 2005: Service: Burkina Faso RPCV Dave Thomas helps Amadou Kalle acquire a one-year visa to study in the United States 18 October 2005
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2005; COS - Burkina Faso; Service; Indiana

• 2005: Service: As a young man Joe Jaycox, co-founder of Chico Carrasquel Foundation, joined the Peace Corps and taught sports in several barrios of Caracas and Maracaibo in Venezuela 17 October 2005
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2005; COS - Venezuela; NGO's

• 2005: Service: Bulgaria RPCV Monica Fish named director of Immokalee Friendship House (IFH), which houses approximately 1,000 homeless persons and serves more than 30,000 meals annually 13 October 2005
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2005; COS - Bulgaria; Service; Florida

• 2005: Service: Peace Corps Fund's 'Celebration of Service' was a major success 8 October 2005
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2005; Fund Raising; Service; Awards

• 2005: Service: Marshall Islands RPCV Dr. Rick Asselta promotes "Roots and Shoots" with students 28 September 2005
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2005; COS - Marshall Islands; Cancer; Sports; NGO's

• 2005: Service: It was the kindness, fortitude, hard work and hardship of the poor people in Guatemala that struck Matthew “Mateo” Paneitz when he first began working there as a Peace Corps volunteer in 2002 26 September 2005
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2005; COS - Guatemala; NGO's; Service

• 2005: Service: To apply for a Crisis Corps position in Hurricane Relief Efforts 23 September 2005
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2005; Service; Crisis Corps; Louisiana

• 2005: Service: Denise Roth Barber says "As a former Peace Corps volunteer in Niger (1990-1992), I am appealing to anyone who can to please make a donation to any of the several aid organizations currently in Niger." 22 September 2005
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2005; COS - Niger; Service; Fund Raising; Montana

• 2005: Service: RPCV Ruth DeMaio's photos of food relief in Niger available online 22 September 2005
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2005; COS - Niger; Service; Fund Raising

• 2005: Service: Forest Whitaker makes new New Public Service Announcements for Peace Corps 20 September 2005
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2005; Advertising

• 2005: Service: Actor Ethan Hawke to join mother, RPCV Leslie Hawke, for Charity Event in Romania 19 September 2005
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2005; COS - Romania; Older Volunteers; Service; Fund Raising

• 2005: Service: Ethiopia RPCVs Richard and Carol Richert provide shelter for Sebsibie family after New Orleans 14 September 2005
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2005; COS - Ethiopia; Service

• 2005: Service: RPCV Jason Ben-Mier says Morocco’s National Initiative for Human Development can create critical socio-economic and political benefits for the Moroccan people 11 September 2005
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2005; COS - Morocco; Service; NGO's

• 2005: Service: Ethiopia RPCV Alexander Saunders suggested thinking outside the box - and the tent - to aid Earthquake victims in Pakistan 8 September 2005
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2005; COS - Pakistan; COS - Ethiopia; Service; Speaking Out; Florida

• 2005: Service: RPCV Randy Brown helps Niger fund raises nearly $10,000 2 September 2005
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2005; COS - Niger; Service; Fund Raising

• 2005: Service: Senegal RPCV Linda Robinson's concern for people suffering with albinism led to the formation of the group L'Association Nationale des Albinos du Senegal 2 September 2005
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2005; COS - Senegal; Service; Older Volunteers

• 2005: Service: Northern Light Masonic Lodge No. 40 picnic benefits the lodge's Ghana Relief Project for a school for the deaf in Ghana 1 September 2005
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2005; COS - Ghana; Service; Fund Raising; Ohio

• 2005: Service: Mark Shriver of Save the Children says it will assist rural communities it serves in the South in rebuilding following Hurricane Katrina 31 August 2005
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2005; Sargent Shriver (Director 1961 - 1966); Service

• 2005: Service: Ruth Sitton DeMaio, a former Peace Corps worker in Niger, has been gathering aid to help people in cities and villages where she used to live and work 29 August 2005
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2005; COS - Niger; Service

• 2005: Service: Goose River Peace Corps Preserve opens 21 August 2005
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2005; COS - Turkey; Service; Maine

• 2005: Service: Ruth DeMaio to send aid to Niger, land of her Peace Corps service 18 August 2005
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2005; COS - Niger; Service

• 2005: Service: Kenya RPCV Michael Farley makes trek through Great Rift Valley to support Makimbo Children's Center 17 August 2005
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2005; COS - Kenya; Adventure; Service

• 2005: Service: RPCV's High Atlas Foundation Hosts a Reception Honoring Moroccan Dignitaries in NYC on September 15 12 August 2005
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2005; COS - Morocco; Service; COS Groups; NGO's

• 2005: Service: Jamaica RPCV Tammy Becker lives 10 months out of the year on a barge traveling up and down the Mississippi River on a clean-up campaign 11 August 2005
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2005; COS - Jamaica; Service; Environment; Illinois

• 2005: Service: A former Peace Corps volunteer, Terry Dougherty left Afghanistan in 1975 never dreaming it would be nearly 30 years before he could go back, before he could bring Afghans to the United States and show them his culture 8 August 2005
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2005; COS - Afghanistan; Service; Indiana

• 2005: Service: Charlotte John-Gomez has been executive director of Layton Boulevard West Neighbors Inc. in Milwaukee since 1999, after serving in the Dominican Republic with the Peace Corps 8 August 2005
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2005; COS - Dominican Republic; Service; Wisconsin

• 2005: Service: Costa Rica RPCV Maria Mazzenga-Avellaneda offers her time and energy to build houses for Tijuana families in need 7 August 2005
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2005; COS - Costa Rica; Hispanic Issues; Service; California

• 2005: Service: Returned Peace Corps volunteer Edward O'Toole salvages cast-off furniture for schools in Honduras 3 August 2005
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2005; COS - Honduras; Service; Massachusetts

• 2005: Service: RPCV Donna Reishus' life changed five years ago when she went on a trip to Belize with her daughter 25 July 2005
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2005; COS - Belize; Service; Colorado

• 2005: Service: Linda and Bruce Wilkinson have called Africa home for some 17 years, starting with Bruce's service in the Peace Corps in Ghana in 1977 25 July 2005
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2005; COS - Ghana; COS - Zambia; HIV; AIDS; Service

• 2005: Service: Anthony Shriver's 'Best Buddies' program helps adults with intellectual disabilities develop often overlooked social skills 25 July 2005
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2005; Sargent Shriver (Director 1961 - 1966); Service; Indiana

• 2005: Service: Bolivia RPCV Karl Zavitkovsky is Dallas' new director of economic development 24 July 2005
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2005; COS - Bolivia; Economic Development; Service; Texas

• 2005: Service: As a fresh Peace Corps volunteer in the fall of 1970, John Beasley traveled thousands of miles with his wife to the islands of Micronesia 17 July 2005
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2005; COS - Micronesia; Return to our Country of Service - Micronesia

• 2005: Service: RPCV Tucker McCravy has been returning to Sri Lanka since 1995 to work with Serendib 17 July 2005
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2005; COS - Sri Lanka; Return to our Country of Service - Sri Lanka; NGO's; Service; Massachusetts

• 2005: Service: RPCV Hank Stelzer has spent last quarter-century trying to alleviate poverty in Lesotho by building boarding school for the blind 16 July 2005
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2005; COS - Lesotho; Disabilities; Service; Idaho

• 2005: Service: John M. Bridgeland writes: An example for Boomers 15 July 2005
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2005; USA Freedom Corps; Service; Speaking Out; Older Volunteers; Ohio

• 2005: Service: A village in India decimated by the tsunami disaster early this year is better off, thanks to the efforts of students at Doyon School 7 July 2005
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2005; COS - India; Service; Massachusetts

• 2005: Service: For the last five years, RPCV Carl Youngberg has volunteered with his church in a Honduran village 6 July 2005
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2005; COS - Honduras; Service; Dance

• 2005: Service: Morocco RPCV Andy and Trudy Anderson work with The Hunger Project, which aims to end world hunger 5 July 2005
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2005; COS - Morocco; Service; Maine

• 2005: Service: Moldova RPCV Diane Hardy supports troops in Iraq with letters 3 July 2005
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2005; COS - Moldova; Iraq; Service

• 2005: Service: Carol Mauer leads Mission Group to Honduras 2 July 2005
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2005; COS - Honduras; Service

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• 2005: Service: Bobby Shriver helps organize Philadelphia Live 8 show 2 July 2005
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2005; Sargent Shriver (Director 1961 - 1966); Service; Music; Fund Raising

• 2005: Service: Colombia RPCV Chic Dambach, president and C.E.O of “Operation Respect: Don’t Laugh at Me," addresses the problem of antisocial behavior among the young 1 July 2005
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2005; COS - Colombia; Service; Youth

• 2005: Service: Michael Gill worked as a US Peace Corps Volunteer (PCV) in remote villages. However, every time Gill returned to his motherland, he always found an excuse to come back to Nepal. 27 June 2005
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2005; COS - Nepal; Return to our Country of Service - Nepal

• 2005: Service: Jonathan Del Marcus says: A National Service Plan could require every American citizen from 18-28 years of age to serve the country in either a civilian capacity for two years or in the military for three years. A National Service Board would represent the five military services and other approved civilian organizations encompassed in the plan. 25 June 2005
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2005; National Service

• 2005: Service: The last time Gary Wilson lived in Ethiopia it was a different era. He was a Peace Corps member in the 1960s explaining to high school students why police in the American south were turning hoses on African-Americans protesting for civil rights, as captured by TV. 23 June 2005
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2005; COS - Ethiopia; Return to our Country of Service - Ethiopia

• 2005: Service: Dr. E. Jackson Allison, who worked in Malawi as an American Peace Corps Volunteer in the early 1960s, and who was very famous for his songs "Chiwewe" and "Ufa wa Mtedza" returned to the country two weeks ago to join in Malawi's fight against HIV/AIDS through the use of culture 23 June 2005
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2005; COS - Malawi; Medicine; Return to our Country of Service - Malawi; HIV; AIDS

• 2005: Service: Bulgaria Peace Corps Volunteer Mark Jackson writes: With a tentative COS (Peace Corps lingo for ‘finishing’) date of September 20th, I am looking at about 3 months left of service. What am I expecting for those three months? 21 June 2005
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2005; COS - Bulgaria

• 2005: Service: Philippines RPCV Michael Bedford says: When I graduated from college in 1969, the Vietnam War was at its height. All US males graduating from college or high school faced the military draft. I struggled with how to fulfill my responsibility as a citizen. 21 June 2005
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2005; COS - Philippines; National Service; Massachusetts

• 2005: Service: Donna Shalala, the longest-serving US health secretary in American history, believes her country can learn something from England's National Health Service 17 June 2005
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2005; RPCV Donna Shalala (Iran); COS - Iran; University Administration; Florida

• 2005: Service: PCV Brian Lee says: On Monday, as we were walking to the Peace Corps Headquarters, I couldn't help but be angry. 16 June 2005
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2005; COS - Haiti; Safety and Security of Volunteers

• 2005: Service: RPCVs announce "Haiti Innovation" to allow individuals to contribute to the development of Haiti 12 June 2005
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2005; Headlines; COS - Haiti; Service

• 2005: Service: Learn more about Haiti Innovaction 12 June 2005
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2005; Headlines; COS - Haiti; Service

• 2005: Service: Guatemala RPCV Marguerite Chandler has founded a food bank, a center for nonprofit social service agencies, a foundation devoted to the elimination of hunger and organizations to promote New Jersey's historical heritage 10 June 2005
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2005; COS - Guatemala; Service; New Jersey

• 2005: Service: Pedals for Progress, an initiative first begun by a Peace Corps volunteer, was brought to New Jersey by Larry Witlen, also a former Peace Corps member. 10 June 2005
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2005; Service; Bicycles; New Jersey

• 2005: Service: Desperate Housewives' Ricardo Chavira is the son of two former Peace Corps volunteers who became health care professionals in the Latino community 6 June 2005
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2005; Television; Service

• 2005: Service: Desperate Housewives' Ricardo Chavira is the son of two former Peace Corps volunteers who became health care professionals in the Latino community 6 June 2005
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2005; Television; Service; Hispanic Issues; COS - Peru

• 2005: Service: "Up to now, I am saddened over the terrible murder of John Auffrey (RPCV Sierra Leone), a fine son of America who was dedicated to helping Liberia at a time when the country needed him most," U.S. Ambassador John William Blaney, lamented 26 May 2005
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2005; COS - Sierra Leone; COS - Liberia; Land Mines; Service; Obituaries; Murder; Crime

• 2005: Service: Tribute To John Auffrey 26 May 2005
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2005; COS - Sierra Leone; COS - Liberia; Land Mines; Service; Obituaries; Murder; Crime

• 2005: Service: Tom Johnson of Morristown 'accidentally' ended up in a medical and surgical relief effort in the village of Masongbo, Sierra Leone, where he served in the Peace Corps before the civil war 25 May 2005
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2005; COS - Sierra Leone; Service; Return to our Country of Service - Sierra Leone

• 2005: Service: Bulgaria RPCV Edward Monroe recently took a four-hour bus ride southeast from Sofia to Kurdjali. I had not been there in eight years. Bulgarian friends told me the city had changed, that I might not recognise it. 23 May 2005
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2005; COS - Bulgaria; Return to our Country of Service - Bulgaria

• 2005: Service: Henry (Hank) Avellar spends part of the year in Utah and part in Paraiba, Brazil. Hank first visited Brazil in 1966 with the US Peace Corp and met his wife 20 May 2005
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2005; COS - Brazil; Return to our Country of Service - Brazil

• 2005: Service: One of the unseen and powerful benefits was the connections formed among the families," said former state Sen. Dave Magnani, who launched the Ashland Educational Community Center and its playgroup program in 1972. 19 May 2005
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2005; COS - Sierra Leone; Politics; Service; Children; Massachusetts

• 2005: Service: Kevin Cahalan was a Peace Corps volunteer in India, served two tours of duty in Vietnam as a U.S. Marine and finally as a program director for Catholic Relief Services in Latin America 22 April 2005
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2005; COS - India; Service; NGO's

• 2005: Service: RPCV Michael Schapiro founded a nonprofit organization - the Haitian Sustainable Development Foundation - to aid Haitian communities 18 April 2005
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2005; COS - Haiti; Service; NGO's; Oregon

• 2005: Service: Guatemala RPCV John Prybot revisited Guatemala in 2003 to get the Central Educational and Cultural Center started at San Pedro La Laguna and to begin collecting historical information so the people, mainly subsistence farmers and farm workers, "can learn about their past history and have a better control over their future." 11 April 2005
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2005; COS - Guatemala; Return to our Country of Service - Guatemala

• 2005: Service: During his time with the Peace Corps in Nepal John Vavruska built a gravity flow drinking water system 6 April 2005
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2005; COS - Nepal; Return to our Country of Service - Nepal; The Third Goal; North Carolina

• 2005: Service: Photographer and traveler John Vavruska will present a slide show at 7 p.m. April 14 at the library in Waynesville about his trek through Nepal where he lived as a Peace Corps volunteer 21 years ago 6 April 2005
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2005; COS - Nepal; Return to our Country of Service - Nepal; The Third Goal; North Carolina

• 2005: Service: Ray Rudd writes: "Back in the DR" about his return to the Dominican Republic as a Peace Corps Volunteer 1 April 2005
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2005; COS - Dominican Republic; Return to our Country of Service - Dominican Republic

• 2005: Service: U.S. Ambassador Brazeal hands over books worth $1.1 Million, recognizes contribution of Peace Corps couple Bill and Betty Graff who taught 40 years ago at Ligaba Beyene Aba Sebsib Secondary School in Sodo town and former school teachers as well as the alumni. 23 March 2005
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2005; COS - Ethiopia; Service

• 2005: Service: Anthony Shriver's 'Best Buddies' program builds bonds among students 23 March 2005
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2005; Sargent Shriver (Director 1961 - 1966); Service

• 2005: Service: Allen Andersson, who served in the Peace Corps in Honduras in the 1960's, has been plowing some of his new fortune into his Riecken Foundation, a charity he named for his wife's parents. It has built more than 20 libraries in remote villages in Honduras and Guatemala. 19 March 2005
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2005; COS - Honduras; Service; NGO's; Fund Raising; Business; COS - Guatemala; Libraries

• 2005: Service: Pakistan RPCV Dennis Braddock was appointed Secretary of the Washington State Department of Social and Health Services by Governor Gary Locke on July 1, 2000 19 March 2005
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2005; COS - Pakistan; Washington

• 2005: Service: RPCV Kelly Hurd of the American Red Cross of Alaska, was deployed to Galle, Sri Lanka, to help coordinate distribution of relief supplies to villages affected by the Dec. 26 tsunami in Southeast Asia 18 March 2005
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2005; COS - Sri Lanka; Service; NGO's; Alaska

• 2005: Service: Maria Shriver says Kids can make a difference to others, themselves 18 March 2005
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2005; Sargent Shriver (Director 1961 - 1966); Service; California

• 2005: Service: Sol Linowitz, co-founder, with David Rockefeller, of the International Executive Service Corps, Dies 18 March 2005
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2005; Obituaries; Service

• 2005: Service: Dream Come True Revisiting, India 17 March 2005
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2005; COS - India; Return to our Country of Service - India

• 2005: Service: RPCV Leslie Hawke gets a chunk of the play "Hurlyburly," for gypsy women in Romania 15 March 2005
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2005; COS - Romania; Service; Fund Raising

• 2005: Service: Alfred "Bankie" Mansaray moved in with Sierra Leone RPCVs Rich and Dana Wekerle. Her eyes welling with tears, Dana Wekerle looked at the young man and replied: "We now have a son." 14 March 2005
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2005; COS - Sierra Leone; Service; Idaho

• 2005: Service: Pakistan RPCV Dennis Braddock Will Retire March 15, 2005, With A History-making Record Of Accomplishment 9 March 2005
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2005; COS - Pakistan; Washington

• 2005: Service: Timothy J. O'Brien's appointment at Shin & Kim marks something of a spiritual return for O'Brien, who spent six years as an English teacher in the country and as a regional director of the Peace Corps following his graduation from Yale 8 March 2005
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2005; COS - Korea; Law; Return to our Country of Service - Korea

• 2005: Service: During my senior year of college I had the brilliant idea of joining the Peace Corps. I wanted to save the world and experience different cultures. I got as far as the interview and backed out. I realized that two years was a long time to spend teaching English in Uzbekistan away from my family, friends and working toilets 26 February 2005
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2005; COS - Nicaragua; Recruitment; Peace Corps Alternatives; Journalism; Humor; Service; Indiana

• 2005: Service: Costa Rica RPCV Troy Dassler's first and second grade class hope to put fires, vandalism behind them 24 February 2005
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2005; COS - Costa Rica; Elementary Education; Service

• 2005: Service: Ivory Coast RPCV Kelly Darnell at work on Tsunami Relief in Sri Lanka 15 February 2005
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2005; COS - Sri Lanka; COS - Ivory Coast; Service; Gay Issues

• 2005: Service: Since 1961 only 178,000 PCVs have served, far from the yearly million Kennedy envisioned serving throughout the world from 1970 onward. Had visionary leadership pushed Americans to order our elected employees into invading today's trouble spots with millions of cost effective Peace Corps Volunteers, we wouldn't today be grieving over dead and maimed brave Americans 13 February 2005
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2005; Presidents - Kennedy; National Service; Speaking Out; Expansion

• 2005: Service: After spending time in Ethiopia with the Peace Corps and returning to Africa several times on medical trips, Ryan began volunteering at the Hamilton Family Shelter in 1988 12 February 2005
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2005; COS - Ethiopia; Medicine; Service; Babies; California

• 2005: Service: RPCVs create TAP, the Tsunami Assistance Project, to construct a community center for the Akkaraipetta School community in Nagappattinam, India 9 February 2005
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2005; COS - India; Service

• 2005: Service: Guatemala RPCV Jeanie Olivares works at Kids! Bright and Healthy, a nonprofit program that helps uninsured, low-income families 8 February 2005
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2005; COS - Guatemala; NGO's; Service; Children; Arizona

• 2005: Service: The Riecken foundation was created in 2000 by Allen Andersson who served in the Peace Corps in Honduras in the 1960s. 31 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; COS - Honduras; NGO's; Service; Libraries

• 2005: Service: Senegal Peace Corps Volunteer Eric Mattson told his parents that Jelaba Dallaba had suffered a tragedy during an intense storm when a Baolba tree crashed through the building housing the millet machine 29 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; COS - Senegal; Service; Fund Raising

• 2005: Service: Peru RPCV L. A. Adams provides online assistance to the village of Cochiraya, designing logos and other elements of their marketing campaign 27 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; COS - Peru; Service

• 2005: Service: In one year, Ethiopia RPCV Philip Lilienthal's camps have brought in 781 young South Africans for 10-day or two-week sessions, at a combined cost of just $370,000. 23 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; COS - South Africa; COS - Ethiopia; Service; Camps

• 2005: Service: Anthony Kennedy Shriver has his eye on Tallahassee 20 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; Sargent Shriver (Director 1961 - 1966); Service; NGO's

• 2005: Service: RPCV Reed Hastings, a moderate Democrat who had a broad range of support from his own party, had committed the unforgivable sin of crossing the ``Latino Caucus'' and its out-of-touch position on bilingual education. As a result, someone who has been a committed advocate of our children's education has now been forced from office because he is not empathetic enough for the Latino Caucus 18 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; COS - Swaziland; Service; Hispanic Issues; Education; California

• 2005: Service: Maria Shriver Uses Holiday to Dig In and Help Out 18 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; Sargent Shriver (Director 1961 - 1966); Service; California

• 2005: Service: The rejection of well-respected community leader Reed Hastings to the State Board of Education is most unfortunate 17 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; COS - Swaziland; Service; Hispanic Issues; Education; California

• 2005: Service: In a service exchange, so much gained 16 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; Peace Corps Alternatives

• 2005: Service: CARE Founder Richard Reuter dies: President Kennedy sought Mr. Reuter's advice when building the Peace Corps; CARE helped train its first volunteers 13 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; History; Obituaries; NGO's; Service

• 2005: Service: Richard Reuter, who served as executive director of the international humanitarian organization CARE from 1955 -1962, passed away Friday from cardiac arrest at his Lake Bluff, IL home at 86. While at CARE, Reuter worked with Sargent Shriver and President John F. Kennedy to develop the Peace Corps model. 11 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; History; Obituaries; NGO's; Service; Maryland

• 2005: Service: Determined to make a difference, Mae Jemison served two-and-a-half years as a Peace Corps medical officer in Sierra Leone and Liberia before joining NASA in 1987. 10 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; COS - Sierra Leone; Space; Science; Service

• 2005: Service: Uzbekistan RCPV Kelly Bauer is helping in the tsunami relief effort in India 9 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; COS - India; COS - Uzbekistan; NGO's; Service; Oregon

• 2005: Service: Kenya RPCV David Womble continues to go where the need is and ask the anguished what would ease their pain 9 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; COS - Kenya; Service; North Carolina

• 2005: Service: Malawi RPCV Garry Prime helps rebuild motorcycles for ‘‘Motorcycles for Africa'' project 8 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; COS - Malawi; Service

• 2005: Service: Turkey RPCV Roseanne S. Allexenberg, the founder of Cayuga County's Christmas Elf program, died of ovarian cancer 7 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; COS - Turkey; Obituaries; Service

• 2005: Service: Turkey RPCV Roseanne S. Allexenberg, the founder of Cayuga County's Christmas Elf program, died of ovarian cancer 7 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; COS - Turkey; Obituaries; Service

• 2005: Service: RPCV Jose Ravano returns to direct CARE's efforts in Sri Lanka 6 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; COS - Sri Lanka; Service; NGO's; Pennsylvania

• 2005: Service: RPCV Paul Bollinger heads for Sri Lanka to help a nation he grew to love 5 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; COS - Sri Lanka; Service

• 2005: Service: Timothy Shriver announces "Rebuild Hope Fund" for Special Olympics Programs affected by tsunami 5 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; Sargent Shriver (Director 1961 - 1966); NGO's; Service

• 2005: Service: Inspired by their grandmother, RPCV Janet Munro, two Manlius siblings are helping to revitalize a school for special-needs children in Armenia 4 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; COS - Armenia; Service; Fund Raising; Arkansas

• 2005: Service: Thomas Tighe, president of Direct Relief International, said the group is using precise lists of needed medicines and supplies provided by people in the disaster regions, even though it is a slow process. "Just sending drugs is easy. The point is to get the right stuff to the right people at the right time," he said. 4 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; COS - Thailand; NGO's; Service; California

• 2005: Service: Volunteers at Direct Relief International's Goleta-based have packed seven tons worth of gauze, sutures, surgical instruments, and medicine to help the survivors of the December 26 tsunami. 4 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; COS - Thailand; NGO's; Service

• 2005: Service: RPCV Gary Lortscher makes trip back to Guinea 1 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; COS - Guinea; Return to our Country of Service - Guinea

• 2005: Service: In 1961 Ronald Schuchard joined Teachers for East Africa (TEA), a USAID-funded precursor to the Peace Corps, which provided teachers for secondary schools in Kenya, Uganda, and Tanganyika 1 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; COS - Kenya; Return to our Country of Service - Kenya

• 2005: Service: Lesotho RPCV Kenneth Storen trying to save African children with " Touching Tiny Lives," a safe house for homeless children 1 January 2005
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2005; COS - Lesotho; Orphans; NGO's; Service

• 2004: Service: 2004: Lauren McCall Abraham served in Jordan in Bsaira, Tafileh beginning in 2004 31 December 2004
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2004

• 2004: Service: 2004: Allen L. Krause served in Cameroon in Dschang beginning in 2004 31 December 2004
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2004; COS - Cameroon

• 2004: Service: 2004: Cecilia Martin served in Federated States of Micronesia in Sokehs Deh, Pohnpei (training) & Weno, Chuuk (assignment) beginning in 2004 31 December 2004
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2004; COS - Micronesia

• 2004: Service: Thirty years after serving in the Peace Corps in Africa, Sean Sullivan is heading back with his wife and friends 31 December 2004
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2004; COS - Swaziland; Return to our Country of Service - Swaziland

• 2004: Service: Direct Relief International headed by Thailand RPCV Thomas Tighe responds to Earthquake and Tsunami 30 December 2004
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2004; COS - Thailand; COS - Sri Lanka; California

• 2004: Service: One of the hostages held in the American Embassy in Teheran was RPCV Barry Rosen. Years later, after 9/11, Mr. Rosen persuaded Teachers College, where he headed the press office, to resume its work of the 1970's in Afghanistan compiling school textbooks for the Ministry of Education. 28 December 2004
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2004; COS - Iran; COS - Afghanistan; Service

• 2004: Service: RPCV Tom Johnson has chosen to spend Christmas in Sierra Leone for the past three years. There's no place else he'd rather be. Johnson is a sort of surgery broker and last year arranged operations in Ghana for two little girls suffering from tuberculosis of the spine. 28 December 2004
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2004; COS - Sierra Leone; Service

• 2004: Service: RPCV Tammie Willcuts flies to Sri Lanka to offer aid 28 December 2004
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2004; COS - Sri Lanka; Service

• 2004: Service: RPCV Bob Cress helped get Jimmy Mote released after almost one year in custody 19 December 2004
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2004; COS - Marshall Islands; Service; Crime; Homeland Security; Immigration

• 2004: Service: Jimmy Mote spent that time under house arrest at the home of Robert Cress, a Peace Corps volunteer in the Marshall Islands some 30 years ago, and his Marshalese wife, Margina 18 December 2004
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2004; COS - Marshall Islands; Service; Crime; Homeland Security; Immigration

• 2004: Service: In 1999, Mariam Sidibé teamed up with Peace Corps volunteer Allison Williams (97-2000) to spread the word about her center and learn any new skills that could help her girls as well as her own family. Later that year, Allison sent Mariam to a Peace Corps/USAID sponsored project to teach women how to crochet recycled plastic bags into marketable goods 16 December 2004
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2004; COS - Mali; Service; Crafts

• 2004: Service: Pakistan RPCV Ann Stottlemyer retires from West Virginia state government 13 December 2004
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2004; COS - Pakistan; Health Services; Virginia

• 2004: Service: Norma Emery said she met her husband in 1967 while she was in the Peace Corps in Afghanistan, and he was a doctor tending to Peace Corps volunteers 6 December 2004
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2004; COS - Afghanistan; Service; Awards; Human Rights; California

• 2004: Service: Charlie Cogan lived in Togo as a Peace Corps volunteer and Fulbright scholar, and he met his wife, Nalongue, there. There's a sad connection, too: He raised money for a blood-testing lab in Togo after his brother-in-law, in the absence of a lab, was misdiagnosed and died. Cogan, a member of the Northfield Rotary Club, will lead 16 Rotarians, including nine Minnesotans, on a trip to Togo, Benin and Burkina Faso this week to immunize children against polio 6 December 2004
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2004; COS - Togo; COS - Benin; COS - Burkina Faso; Service; Minnesota

• 2004: Service: Jimmy Mote found help and hope in a new friendship with Marshall Islands RPCV Bob Cress's family of Minneapolis 4 December 2004
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2004; COS - Marshall Islands; Service; Crime; Homeland Security; Immigration

• 2004: Service: Pedals for Progress needs new location in Northern Virginia 4 December 2004
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2004; COS - Panama; NGO's; Service; Virginia

• 2004: Service: RPCV Shawn Barnes has started an effort called "Aloha Computers for Education in Samoa." 30 November 2004
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2004; COS - Samoa; Computers; Service

• 2004: Service: Lesotho RPCV Kenneth C. Montague, Jr., is Secretary of Juvenile Services for the State of Maryland 28 November 2004
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2004; COS - Lesotho; Politics; Maryland

• 2004: Service: High School student Scott Myers started "Sustain Mauritania" after hearing Robb Warfield speak about his two years in the Peace Corps 26 November 2004
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2004; COS - Mauritania; Service; Fund Raising

• 2004: Service: Friends of Ecuador have new web site 12 November 2004
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2004; COS - Ecuador; Country of Service Groups; NPCA

• 2004: Service: Lamidanda Nepal is where John Vavruska spent many days and nights 20 years ago as a Peace Corps Volunteer working out the UNICEF Field Office 11 November 2004
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2004; COS - Nepal; Return to our Country of Service - Nepal

• 2004: Service: Five years ago, Mae Jemison came to Clayton to promote the launch of a partnership between Bayer Healthcare and Johnston County Schools to teach a new hands-on science program in four of the district's elementary schools. She returned Wednesday, when the pharmaceutical company gave Johnston schools the largest of its five yearly grants -- $50,000 -- to expand the program to all 19 Johnston elementary schools. 11 November 2004
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2004; COS - Sierra Leone; Space; Science; Service

• 2004: Service: A volunteer 30 years ago with the Peace Corps, Ed Toth went to Kenya in March to reunite with a former colleague and close friend, Abduliah Abdi. Together, they traveled to sites where they had worked in 1974. 9 November 2004
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2004; COS - Kenya; Return to our Country of Service - Kenya

• 2004: Service: Ecuador RPCV Susan E. Sheridan will lead the consumer action area of the World Alliance for Patient Safety 4 November 2004
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2004; COS - Ecuador; NGO's; Service

• 2004: Service: RPCV Susan Sheridan is a consumer organizer and spokesperson on health and safety issues. Both her husband, Pat, and their son, Cal, experienced serious injuries as the result of medical system failures 4 November 2004
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2004; COS - Ecuador; NGO's; Service

• 2004: Service: RPCV Susan Sheridan is a consumer with a strong interest in partnering with other consumers and the healthcare system to improve care and avoid preventable patient injuries. Her special interest is kernicterus, a preventable newborn brain injury caused by elevated jaundice. 4 November 2004
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2004; COS - Ecuador; NGO's; Service

• 2004: Service: After serving in the Peace Corps in Uzbekistan and hearing from a friend who served in the Peace Corps in Afghanistan, John Harty has started to collect shoes for Afghan women and children. 4 November 2004
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2004; COS - Uzbekistan; COS - Afghanistan; Service

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• 2004: Service: After serving in the Peace Corps in Uzbekistan and hearing from a friend who served in the Peace Corps in Afghanistan, John Harty has started to collect shoes for Afghan women and children 4 November 2004
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2004; COS - Uzbekistan; COS - Afghanistan; Service; Kansas

• 2004: Service: William Josephson's career began when he helped found the Peace Corps 2 November 2004
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2004; Staff; Law; NGO's

• 2004: Service: Mae Jemison from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 31 October 2004
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2004; COS - Sierra Leone; Space; Third Goal; Science; Education; Service

• 2004: Service: Arthur Goldblatt took up tennis while in the Peace Corps serving in Ethiopia, trading tennis lessons for English lessons with the national champion tennis player 30 October 2004
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2004; COS - Ethiopia; Sports; Service

• 2004: Service: If you would be interested in supporting the Norwalk Grassroots Tennis program by making a contribution or volunteering time as a mentor, or otherwise, please contact RPCV Art Goldblatt 30 October 2004
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2004; COS - Ethiopia; Sports; Service

• 2004: Service: Anne Delorie is the finance director. "I came to Kenya in 1970 with the peace-corps. Now I’m in partnership with a few other people – running a curative and evaluative medical service called Mediplan Ltd." 30 October 2004
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2004; COS - Kenya; Service

• 2004: Service: Mae Jemison, the first African American female astronaut to travel into space, will deliver the keynote address at the "Women of Diversity Entrepreneurship" conference at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship on Nov. 3 29 October 2004
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2004; COS - Sierra Leone; Space; Third Goal; Science; Education; Service

• 2004: Service: Sharon Mosher Tangney's nonprofit organization, Hands Across the Water, is affiliated with the national Friends of Liberia association made up of former Peace Corps volunteers 27 October 2004
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2004; COS - Liberia; Service; Secondary Education

• 2004: Service: Sharon Mosher Tangney first visited Liberia in 1969 as a Peace Corps volunteer. Her passion for helping that country's children has rubbed off on several local school groups. 26 October 2004
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2004; COS - Liberia; Service; Secondary Education; California

• 2004: Service: Maria Shriver's idea of requiring college students to perform some volunteer work before they can graduate is rejected 23 October 2004
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2004; Sargent Shriver (Director 1961 - 1966); Service; California

• 2004: Service: Joan Velasquez and her husband, Segundo, met in Bolivia, when Joan was in the Peace Corps 21 October 2004
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2004; COS - Bolivia; Marriage; Service; NGO's

• 2004: Service: Kate Joyce, a former Peace Corps Volunteer from Baltimore, Md., credits the Chocolate Affair, a fundraiser to support the Center for Poverty Solutions, for introducing her to the Edible School Yard program 21 October 2004
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2004; NGO's; Fund Raising; Service; Maryland

• 2004: Service: Kevin Denney of Canandaigua produces a film that portrays life in the African country of Malawi where AIDS is nearly out of control 15 October 2004
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2004; COS - Malawi; Service; AIDS; AIDS Education

• 2004: Service: Tony Chamberlain, 41, a Peace Corps volunteer in the city Bistrita-Nasaud Judet, plans to use the books with the students he helps with computer skills and English 11 October 2004
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2004; COS - Romania; NGO's; Service

• 2004: Service: Anthony Shriver, the youngest of Eunice and Sargent Shriver's five children, proved that most Washington parties are "tame" compared to the wild and exotic "Zulu Tu-Du!" bash he threw at his parent's Potomac manse Saturday for his 16-year old non-profit organization, Best Buddies International 11 October 2004
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2004; Sargent Shriver (Director 1961 - 1966); Service; Fund Raising; Maryland

• 2004: Service: Senegal RPCV Tony Ends concluded that the most important thing he might do to better their situation would be to bring one promising student to the United States for an education, equipping the student to return to his rural homeland and make a real difference 10 October 2004
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2004; COS - Senegal; Service

• 2004: Service: India RPCV Dwayne Hunn says the US needs a draft 6 October 2004
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2004; COS - India; National Service; Speaking Out

• 2004: Service: Kenya RPCV Mark Maxam helps bring light to schools throughout Kenya 6 October 2004
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2004; COS - Kenya; Service; Solar Energy

• 2004: Service: Dr. Mae C. Jemison who joined the Peace Corps in 1983 and spent two years as a medical officer in Africa was at Morristown to kick off a science competition for New Jersey students and told them: "We're not going to solve our problems by going to a different planet," The former astronaut, who made history in 1992 when she boarded the space shuttle Endeavor on an eight-day mission added, "We must teach critical thinking." 6 October 2004
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2004; COS - Sierra Leone; Space; Third Goal; Science; Education; Service; New Jersey

• 2004: Service: Rep. Tom Petri, R-Fond du Lac, vote to reject legislation that would reinstate the military draft by establishing mandatory public service for young men and women saying, “It’s not necessary, the military doesn’t want it, the public doesn’t want it, Congress and the president don’t want it.” 6 October 2004
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2004; COS - Somalia; Congress; Legislation; National Service; Wisconsin

• 2004: Service: Astronaut Mae C. Jemison who joined the Peace Corps in 1983 and spent two years as a medical officer in Africa Launches New Bayer Competition for Students Who Want to Change the World 5 October 2004
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2004; COS - Sierra Leone; Space; Third Goal; Science; Education; Service

• 2004: Service: Former Peace Corps volunteer Ann Marie Hoffman didn't know she would spend her morning dragging tarps filled with crushed rocks to create a walkway around the soccer field at Clarkston Community Center 2 October 2004
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2004; Service

• 2004: Service: [2] Former Peace Corps volunteer Ann Marie Hoffman didn't know she would spend her morning dragging tarps filled with crushed rocks to create a walkway around the soccer field at Clarkston Community Center 2 October 2004
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2004; Service

• 2004: Service: In his 25th reunion class book at Harvard, Brazil RPCV Bruce Fowler wrote that he had planned "three five-year phases" for his life after graduation in 1966: "The first was public service and finishing formal schooling; the second was to make a lot of money; third was to apply my newly generated riches to something in the public service." 22 September 2004
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2004; COS - Brazil; Service; Business; Obituaries; Massachusetts

• 2004: Service: Peace Corps volunteer Stephanie Kanan, who told of a girl in Kenya who was on the verge of being forced out of high school because her family couldn't afford the tuition 21 September 2004
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2004; COS - Kenya; Service

• 2004: Service: Sarah Chayes has traded life on a rural dairy cooperative in Afghanistan for a temporary retreat in Paris to complete her book about the aftermath of war in the bombed-out country she has called home for more than two years 20 September 2004
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2004; COS - Afghanistan; COS - Morocco; Journalism; Service

• 2004: Service: Jonathan Lederman was with the Coral Springs Jaycees before serving from July 2002 to February 2003 with the Peace Corps in the Philippine 20 September 2004
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2004; COS - Philippines; Florida

• 2004: Service: Pedals for Progress, a New Jersey-based charitable organization has collected more than 80,000 used bicycles since 1991 and distributed them in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Ghana, Pakistan, Kenya and other countries mostly in Africa and Central America 17 September 2004
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2004; Service; Bicycles; Delaware

• 2004: Service: Belknap said there were other ways of evading the draft including joining the Peace Corps - a course taken by 15,000 young people a year during the Vietnam War - or volunteering for the National Guard and reserve 15 September 2004
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2004; National Service

• 2004: Service: Shays, Bipartisan Legislators Launch National Service Caucus 14 September 2004
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2004; COS - Fiji; Congress; Politics; National Service; Connecticut

• 2004: Service: I am an Irishman with a Welch name (joe jaycox) who lives in Chicago and am married to Sheila Mary Donohue from Galway. I also lived and worked in Caracas while in the Peace Corps from 1962 to 1964 14 September 2004
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2004; COS - Venezuela; Service; Illinois

• 2004: Service: First Shriver Award winner Malaysia RPCV Marjorie May dies at 95 6 September 2004
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2004; COS - Malaysia; Awards; Obituaries; Service

• 2004: Service: Aging Hippy Philippines RPCV Carl Hoffman confronts an army-bound son 6 September 2004
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2004; National Service; Army; Humor; Speaking Out

• 2004: Service: Friends of Sierra Leone, a nonprofit organization founded by former Peace Corps volunteers, is lobbying for an extension of the protected status for about 3,000 people from Sierra Leone that allows noncitizens to obtain work, driver's licenses and property while they are in the United States 3 September 2004
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2004; COS - Sierra Leone; NPCA; Country of Service Groups; Immigration

• 2004: Service: Schwarzenegger, Shriver to launch Service Corps in California 26 August 2004
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2004; Sargent Shriver (Director 1961 - 1966); Service

• 2004: Service: Maria Shriver launches California Service Corps Web Site featuring a logo of a cartoon bear, dumbbell in hand, nicknamed "Sarge the Bear" - a tribute to Shriver's father 26 August 2004
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2004; Sargent Shriver (Director 1961 - 1966); Service; California

• 2004: Service: RPCV Molly Melching to speak on female genital cutting in Senegal 22 August 2004
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2004; Service; COS - Senegal; Women's Issues

• 2004: Service: More than 15 years ago, Mary Karen and Markus Lynn-Klimenko worked in the Peace Corps in Ecuador. Now they return each year for Camp Ecuador for 100 5- to 13-year-olds who get adequate food, hygiene education and school supplies, as well as plenty of games and arts and crafts activities. The camp lasts for four days and leaves all the children with a school scholarship for a year. 19 August 2004
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2004; COS - Ecuador; Service; Camps

• 2004: Service: Teacher of the Year Venezuela RPCV John Mach: His first-hand observation of the hardships of immigrant children has helped him learn how to break the language barrier 19 August 2004
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2004; COS - Venezuela; Secondary Education; Immigrants; Service; Awards

• 2004: Service: Tamulonis, Madison Group Honored with First Returned Volunteer Recognition Awards 11 August 2004
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2004; Gaddi Vasquez (Director 2002 - 2006); Awards; COS - Malawi; Local Groups; Wisconsin; Service

• 2004: Service: Abroad and at home, Malaysia RPCV Darlene Fellows offers help 9 August 2004
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2004; COS - Malaysia; Service; Nursing

• 2004: Service: Zachary McNish's interest in community service law seems to have been driven by the same instincts that led him to spend three years in the Peace Corps in Panama after he graduated from college 8 August 2004
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2004; COS - Panama; Service; Law

• 2004: Service: Direct Relief International Receives Largest Vitamin Donation in Organization’s 56-Year History 5 August 2004
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2004; COS - Thailand; NGO's; Service; Medicine

• 2004: Service: Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Terry Dougherty helps bring students from Afghanistan to Indiana 4 August 2004
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2004; COS - Afghanistan; Service; Indiana

• 2004: Service: We need the Peace Corps as well as the Marine Corps 2 August 2004
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2004; Speaking Out; National Service

• 2004: Service: Bob Cress was a Peace Corps Volunteer in the Marshall Islands and has been helping a Marshallese man who was recently released on home-monitoring following seven months of detention at a Minnesota lock-up 1 August 2004
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2004; COS - Marshall Islands; Service; Crime; Homeland Security; Immigration; Minnesota

• 2004: Service: Larry Kies first taught agriculture as a Peace Corps volunteer in Botswana then taught and managed the farm at Maun Secondary School 30 July 2004
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2004; COS - Botswana; Service

• 2004: Service: "Here is to success!" said Peru RPCV Fred Poses, a trustee who co-chairs the group's capital campaign committee, which is trying to collect $10 million in donations to improve facilities, recruit teachers and increase financial aid. "Raise your shovels up high!" 27 July 2004
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2004; COS - Peru; Service; Disabilities; Fund Raising

• 2004: Service: Thailand RPCV Alan Abramowitz, a Department of Children & Families administrator who worked to clean up the agency's troubled Palm Beach County operations, has been promoted to a position running DCF operations in the Daytona Beach area 23 July 2004
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2004; COS - Thailand; Florida

• 2004: Service: Kerry proposes 'Citizen Patriots Fund' to promote a new generation of social entrepreneurs 23 July 2004
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2004; National Service

• 2004: Service: Kerry proposes 'Citizen Patriots Fund," four years of college tuition to those who give two years of service to America 23 July 2004
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2004; National Service

• 2004: Service: Kerry proposes 'Citizen Patriots Fund' to promote a new generation of social entrepreneurs 23 July 2004
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2004; National Service

• 2004: Service: Professor Martin Carnoy's special link to ambitious young graduate student Alejandro Toledo has spanned a third of a century and a presidency 21 July 2004
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2004; COS - Peru; Politics; Return to our Country of Service - Peru

• 2004: Service: Malawi Children's Village is a social services organization run collaboratively by American volunteers and local villagers 20 July 2004
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2004; COS - Malawi; Service; Orphans

• 2004: Service: Lilka Areton spent two years in the Peace Corps in Peru, then went to graduate school at the Bank Street College of Education in New York City and got a teaching job in Spanish Harlem - volunteering at the International Center. 18 July 2004
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2004; COS - Peru; Service

• 2004: Service: Turkey RPCVs Rich and Judy Wandschneider thrive on Corps Values 17 July 2004
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2004; COS - Turkey; Service; Return to our Country of Service - Turkey

• 2004: Service: National Service program would unify nation 15 July 2004
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2004; National Service; Speaking Out

• 2004: Service: Forty years and half a world away, Farrar Atkinson was reunited recently with the Filipino students she inspired while serving in the Peace Corps in the 1960s 14 July 2004
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2004; COS - Philippines; Return to our Country of Service - Philippines; California

• 2004: Service: A recent Peace Corps volunteer, Marge Pease, 79, was moved by both the great need of the orphanages she visited and the gratitude of the orphans in Russia 12 July 2004
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2004; COS - Russia; Service; Orphans; Older Volunteers

• 2004: Service: RPCV Christopher S. "Topher" Hamblett returns to help in Sierra Leone 11 July 2004
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2004; COS - Sierra Leone; Service; Return to our Country of Service - Sierra Leone; Rhode Island

• 2004: Service: Bill Reid stepped from a plane onto the hot tarmac in the Ghanaian capital of Accra, tired but eager to return to the country where he had been a Peace Corps volunteer almost 30 years earlier 7 July 2004
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2004; COS - Ghana; Return to our Country of Service - Ghana

• 2004: Service: Nikhil Jaisinghan and Mark Ludwick found Deep Roots Nepal 4 July 2004
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2004; COS - Nepal; Service; NGO's

• 2004: Service: Friends mourn death of Sierra Leone RPCV John Auffrey 4 July 2004
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2004; COS - Sierra Leone; COS - Liberia; Land Mines; Service; Obituaries; Murder; Crime

• 2004: Service: Norma Mercedes Perugachi Tuqueres Stuart was scarcely more than a baby when Peace Corps nurse Betty Stuart and several Pottsville residents gave her a chance at a new life after she lost both hands and part of an arm in a bizarre accident 3 July 2004
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2004; COS - Ecuador; Service

• 2004: Service: Wade Fickler had just returned from serving a Peace Corps tour of duty in Ukraine. Within that former Soviet republic, he had tried to instill some ways of democratic give and take 3 July 2004
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2004; COS - Ukraine; Service; NGO's; Oregon

• 2004: Service: Russell E. Kratzer consoled himself with the thought that he was headed to the much less crowded Tianshui, Gansu, where he taught English as a Peace Corps volunteer from 2000 to 2002 1 July 2004
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2004; COS - China; Return to our Country of Service - China

• 2004: Service: Sierra Leone RPCV John Auffrey dies in Liberia 1 July 2004
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2004; COS - Sierra Leone; COS - Liberia; Land Mines; Service; Obituaries; Murder; Crime

• 2004: Service: Terry Coleman lived in Gopalpur-on-Sea, on the Bay of Bengal in India. A member of the Peace Corps, Coleman did everything in this tiny village, from raising chickens to digging fishponds 30 June 2004
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2004; COS - India; Return to our Country of Service - India; Museums; Minnesota

• 2004: Service: Molly Steinbauer who spent more than two years in Tanzania, Africa, while serving the Peace Corps, has had an opportunity to return there because of her foreign language studies at Ohio University and her past experiences in Tanzania. 30 June 2004
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2004; COS - Tanzania; Return to our Country of Service - Tanzania

• 2004: Service: Thailand RPCV Leslie Wilson finds work in Afghanistan 'rewarding' 27 June 2004
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2004; COS - Thailand; COS - Afghanistan; Service; NGO's

• 2004: Service: When Henry Homeye returned to Cameroon in 1999 to visit his Peace Corps village, he learned that farmers there understood that some plants provide the benefits of manure 25 June 2004
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2004; COS - Cameroon; Agriculture; Return to our Country of Service - Cameroon

• 2004: Service: Tanzania RPCV Trevor Murphy is director of Save Our Youth, an after-school program in Los Angeles that offers recreational, social, academic and health and fitness activities for 11- to 17-year-olds 18 June 2004
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2004; COS - Tanzania; Service; California

• 2004: Service: Dennis Williams who started the firm in 1978 served in Guatemala as a member of the Peace Corps during the 1960's 14 June 2004
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2004; COS - Guatemala; Engineering; Service

• 2004: Service: Guatemala RPCV Sarah Lansdale is acting director of the nonprofit Sustainable Long Island 11 June 2004
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2004; COS - Guatemala; Service

• 2004: Service: Memorial Servive for Sierra Leone RPCV John Andrew Auffrey, killed in Liberia. Auffrey worked for the Department of Defense helping clear land mines as part of a U.S. aid effort. He was a member of a delegation sent to war-torn Liberia to help set up peace efforts by the United States, establishing the security and structures for the U.S. to go in and help 11 June 2004
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2004; COS - Sierra Leone; COS - Liberia; Land Mines; Service; Obituaries; Murder; Crime

• 2004: Service: El Salvador RPCV Congressman Honda performs his civic duty 7 June 2004
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2004; COS - El Salvador; Congress; Politics; Service; California

• 2004: Service: The day may come when any United States citizen must serve their country through the military, Peace Corps, or other organization upon their high school graduation or 18th birthday, said U. S. Senator Trent Lott, R-Miss. 4 June 2004
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2004; National Service

• 2004: Service: Congresswoman Corrine Brown is among the lawmakers pushing mandatory service for young people 2 June 2004
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2004; Congress; National Service

• 2004: Service: After 8-year-old David Ananias Vásquez Fuentes had a grenade explode in his hand in February, local doctors had little hope that he would ever be able to see again or use his arm. That was before Fuentes met Peace Corps volunteer Jordan Gantz. 2 June 2004
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2004; Gaddi Vasquez; COS - El Salvador; Service; Medicine

• 2004: Service: Sarah Chayes says "It's hard for an American -- even as "embedded" an American as me -- to fully guage the joint effects of disillusionment and the Iraq prison scandal on Afghans' attitude toward the current regime and its US shepherds." 29 May 2004
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2004; COS - Afghanistan; COS - Morocco; Journalism; Service; Iraq

• 2004: Service: Governor Jim Doyle says Wisconsin, the world will benefit from service 29 May 2004
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2004; COS - Tunisia; Politics; Speaking Out; Service; State Government; Wisconsin

• 2004: Service: RPCV Erik Werner is Director of Global Works offering community service summer programs abroad 29 May 2004
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2004; Service

• 2004: Service: Submit your own slides now for the 2006 Peace Corps Calendar! 27 May 2004
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2004; Local Groups; Fund Raising; Service

• 2004: Service: The plan sounds a lot like Peace Corps. But let's make it mandatory, not voluntary. Or give such financial incentive that it's difficult to say no. Make it massive. Tens of thousands of young people going back and forth across continents to learn and exchange ideas. 23 May 2004
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2004; Speaking Out; National Service

• 2004: Service: Sarah Chayes on Afghanistan @ Stanford University 20 May 2004
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2004; COS - Afghanistan; COS - Morocco; Journalism; Service

• 2004: Service: Sarah Chayes on Afghanistan: Where Hope Confronts Reality 10 May 2004
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2004; COS - Afghanistan; COS - Morocco; Journalism; Service

• 2004: Service: Morocco RPCV Sarah Chayes continues work in Afghanistan 8 May 2004
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2004; COS - Afghanistan; COS - Morocco; Journalism; Service

• 2004: Service: Ruth Moss founded the Rose Kaplan School in Taraz in March, 1998, while serving as a US Peace Corps Volunteer with the Taraz State University 5 May 2004
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2004; COS - Kazakhstan; Service; Secondary Education; Writing - Kazakhstan

• 2004: Service: Kevin Miller served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Karatau, Kazakhstan (1997-99), where he taught English and Computer Keyboarding at a local high school 5 May 2004
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2004; COS - Kazakhstan; Service; Secondary Education

• 2004: Service: Jamaica RPCV Jill Walker's work with RIF literacy program receives national recognition 3 May 2004
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2004; COS - Jamaica; Service; Awards; Literacy

• 2004: Service: After meeting her husband, who is an immigrant, while working for the Peace Corps in Romania four years ago, Miranda Byrd said she wants to focus on the international community 28 April 2004
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2004; COS - Romania; Service; Community Development; Oregon

• 2004: Service: Cato Institute criticizes Kerry's domestic Peace Corps-like "Compact with the Next Generation," which he promises will "bring the greatest expansion of national service in history." 27 April 2004
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2004; Speaking Out; National Service

• 2004: Service: Bolivia RPCV Jaime Canfield has started The Golden Ball Project, a program to restore the wooden yacht into a charter boat to teach sailing and learn about the natural environments along Florida's coast 25 April 2004
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2004; COS - Bolivia; Service; Florida

• 2004: Service: Not until the Q&A did Kerry mention his national-service plan, which promises a free college ride for up to 200,000 students willing to do two-year tours in service professions like teaching or law enforcement 20 April 2004
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2004; National Service

• 2004: Service: Survivor Mauritania RPCV Ken Rutherford grows into activist foe of land mines 19 April 2004
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2004; COS - Mauritania; Land Mines; Service; NGO's

• 2004: Service: Mauritania RPCV Ken Rutherford is co-founder of the Landmine Survivors Network in Washington, D.C., which has offices around the world and works for the rights of land mine survivors. 18 April 2004
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2004; COS - Mauritania; Land Mines; Service; NGO's

• 2004: Service: Besa Amenuvor, director of the Ghana program, is a native of the country who was educated in the United States and served as associate director of the US Peace Corps in Ghana 16 April 2004
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2004; COS - Ghana; NGO's; Service

• 2004: Service: Mauritania RPCV Ken Rutherford organized a day-long event in land-mine awareness 16 April 2004
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2004; COS - Mauritania; Land Mines; Service; NGO's

• 2004: Service: The notion of the Peace Corps may be as antiquated as VW Beetles and Vietnam War protests, but community service is still as vital in the age of VW Passats and Iraq War protests 12 April 2004
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2004; Speaking Out; Service; Humor

• 2004: Service: For Ivory Coast RPCV Dave Rivers, coordinating is a calling 11 April 2004
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2004; COS - Ivory Coast; Service

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• 2004: Service: Joyce and Tad Lhamon fulfilled a dream to return to Micronesia, where they had served in the Peace Corps three decades earlier 5 April 2004
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2004; COS - Micronesia; Return to our Country of Service - Micronesia

• 2004: Service: New bill may reinstate the draft for 2005 2 April 2004
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2004; National Service

• 2004: Service: Pedals For Progress was founded by Dave Schweidenback who as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador, had seen the difference that a bicycle could make in someone's quality of life in a developing country. 1 April 2004
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2004; Bicycles; Service; COS - Ecuador

• 2004: Service: Linda Alley Herndon went to the island nation of Dominican Republic as a Peace Corps volunteer 31 March 2004
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2004; COS - Dominican Republic; Service

• 2004: Service: Sarah Chayes to kick off Lecture Series 24 March 2004
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2004; COS - Afghanistan; COS - Morocco; Journalism; Service

• 2004: Service: HANS BLIX, SARAH CHAYES TO KICKOFF VCU LECTURE SERIES - Year-long “Crossing Boundaries” program to explore global, political, social issues 24 March 2004
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2004; COS - Afghanistan; COS - Morocco; Journalism; Service

• 2004: Service: Thailand RPCV Thomas Tighe announces Medical Relief Supplies to Reach Liberia 23 March 2004
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2004; COS - Thailand; Service; NGO's; COS - Liberia; California

• 2004: Service: Honduras RPCV Spencer Beebe will ask anyone for funds in an effort to preserve natural landscapes in the Pacific Northwest and the world 21 March 2004
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2004; COS - Honduras; Service; NGO's

• 2004: Service: Try the Peace Corps diet 20 March 2004
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2004; Humor; Speaking Out; Service

• 2004: Service: Peace Corps volunteer Bill Kendall returns to Ghana after 30 years 17 March 2004
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2004; COS - Ghana; Return to our Country of Service - Ghana

• 2004: Service: Anthony Shriver is founder of "Best Buddies" 15 March 2004
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2004; Service; Sargent Shriver (Director 1961 - 1966)

• 2004: Service: Tom and Pam Pendleton met while working in the Peace Corps in the early 1980s in Congo Kinsasha. Now they are working to establish Mango Bridge, an organization with the mission to provide educational opportunities and vocational resources to individuals and families in The Gambia. 14 March 2004
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2004; COS - The Gambia; Service; NGO's

• 2004: Service: Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell says he thinks we have to have a system where everyone out of high school has to serve two years in the military, or in AmeriCorps or Peace Corps 8 March 2004
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2004; National Service; Speaking Out

• 2004: Service: Costa Rica RPCV Nancy Aitken, Director of Proyecto Campanario, announces tropical ecology camps and courses 2 March 2004
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2004; COS - Costa Rica; Service

• 2004: Service: Paul Spencer Sochaczewski who lived in Sarawak in 1969 as a Peace Corps volunteer, returns to play golf 1 March 2004
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2004; COS - Malaysia; Sports; Conservation

• 2004: Service: Robert Moore says "I have long been a proponent of a mandatory term of national service for all citizens. If not in the armed forces, then in the Peace Corps or some other sacrificial service to the country." 1 March 2004
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2004; National Service

• 2004: Service: Cathy Sandhage, a Jackson County native who spent a portion of the mid-1980s working for the Peace Corps in Belize, said she’s been brushing up on her Spanish skills in recent weeks in preparation for the clinic’s opening 27 February 2004
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2004; COS - Belize; Nursing; Service

• 2004: Service: Samoa RPCV Bob Gobrecht heads Special Olympics of Southern California 24 February 2004
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2004; Service; NGO's

• 2004: Service: I was in the Peace Corps for two years. Very few people would consider that "service to our country" and almost no one would consider it service to our country in the same way as joining the military and going to war. 22 February 2004
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2004; Speaking Out; National Service; Service

• 2004: Service: Biblio.com founder and president Brendan Sherar made the decision to get involved in the new library for the residents of Morado K’asa at the request of his sister, Megan, who was doing Peace Corps service in the region in 2003 18 February 2004
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2004; COS - Bolivia; Service; Libraries

• 2004: Service: RPCVs Roger and Sondra Le Grand return to India 16 February 2004
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2004; COS - India

• 2004: Service: As part of the Peace Corps, Jason Walker was teaching English to natives of Madagascar 13 February 2004
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2004; COS - Madagascar; Service

• 2004: Service: Jerr Boschee founds Peace Corps Veterans 13 February 2004
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2004; NGO's; Service

• 2004: Service: RPCV Jim Raymond and wife Ninevetch send book to Philippines 9 February 2004
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2004; COS - Philippines; Service

• 2004: Service: Ethiopia RPCV Phil Lilienthal's Worldcamps helps sponsor AIDS Education in South Africa Amid Crayons and Soccer 5 February 2004
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2004; COS - Ethiopia; Service; Camps; COS - South Africa

• 2004: Service: The Norwalk Grassroots Tennis program was started in 1995 by Ethiopia Arthur Goldblatt 5 February 2004
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2004; COS - Ethiopia; Sports; Service

• 2004: Service: Micronesia RPCV Jim Smyth to retire as director of United Way of Greater Lafayette 5 February 2004
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2004; Service; COS - Micronesia

• 2004: Service: RPCV Molly Melching works for end of Female Genital Mutilation in Senegal 5 February 2004
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2004; Service; COS - Senegal; Women's Issues

• 2004: Service: Constance G. Konold revisits Cameroon: a Peace Corps return 2 February 2004
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2004; COS - Cameroon; Return to our Country of Service - Cameroon

• 2004: Service: Answering Kennedy's call 1 February 2004
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2004; Service; Speaking Out

• 2004: Service: Sierra Leone RPCVs Tom and Sarah Morgan, former Peace Corps members who have continued their missionary work in Haiti 25 January 2004
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2004; Service; COS - Sierra Leone; COS - Haiti

• 2004: Service: Jim's life in Nepal 23 January 2004
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2004; COS - Nepal; Internet

• 2004: Service: Jim's life in Nepal - Thanksgiving 23 January 2004
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2004; COS - Nepal; Internet; Thanksgiving

• 2004: Service: Lesotho RPCV Steven Saltman organizes Rabbie Burns dinner and benefit for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society 22 January 2004
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2004; COS - Lesotho; Cancer; Service

• 2004: Service: Uruguay RPCV Ron St. John in Baghdad, helping build new democracy 21 January 2004
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2004; Iraq; COS - Uruguay; Service; Arizona

• 2004: Service: Libertarians oppose National Service programs 20 January 2004
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2004; Politics; Criticism; National Service

• 2004: Service: RPCV Gary A. Walker fell in love with Sierra Leone and is now working in Freetown as an adviser to the government for post-war reconstruction and development. 18 January 2004
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2004; COS - Sierra Leone; Service

• 2004: Service: When Paraguay RPCV Tom Murphy first took office in January 1994, Pittsburgh was suffering from one of the worst inferiority complexes in its history 18 January 2004
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2004; Politics; Service; COS - Paraguay; Pennsylvania

• 2004: Service: Paraguay RPCV Tom Murphy is a dreamer 17 January 2004
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2004; Politics; Service; COS - Paraguay; Pennsylvania

• 2004: Service: Rene Moquin has been a revolutionary leader for the United Way after dedicating his life to public service, starting back in the '60s when he was a volunteer in the Peace Corps, serving in Vietnam 17 January 2004
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2004; Service; NGO's

• 2004: Service: Honduras RPCV Spencer Beebe blazes his own trail as Ecorust founder and capitalist 12 January 2004
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2004; COS - Honduras; Service; NGO's; Oregon

• 2004: Service: RPCV Malcolm Pfunder reflects back on his Peace Corps Service in Turkey in the 1960's 12 January 2004
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2004; COS - Turkey; Return to our Country of Service - Turkey

• 2004: Service: Uzbekistan RPCV Jessica Jackson cooks up a nonprofit career 11 January 2004
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2004; COS - Uzbekistan; Service

• 2004: Service: Bethany Blonde, a Peace Corps volunteer who has lived in Bulgaria for the past year, visited the club recently to thank them for their contribution to the school, where she teaches 10 January 2004
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2004; COS - Bulgaria; Service

• 2004: Service: Direct Relief International Medical Suplies arrive in Sri Lanka 8 January 2004
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2004; COS - Thailand; COS - Sri Lanka; NGO's; Service

• 2004: Service: Morocco RPCV Valerie Staats named Executive Director of Pittsburgh Cares 6 January 2004
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2004; COS - Morocco; Service; Pennsylvania

• 2004: Service: Nigeria RPCV Chris Riley selected as Showcase Man of the Year for his commitment to community service 5 January 2004
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2004; COS - Nigeria; Awards; Service

• 2004: Service: Bangladesh RPCV Jim Bausch has worked for four decades in programs, management and governance in the not-for-profit sector 1 January 2004
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2004; COS - Bangladesh; Service; NGO's

• 2004: Service: RPCV Neil Gagen backs Kenya AIDS battle 1 January 2004
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2004; COS - Kenya; Service; HIV; AIDS

• 2004: Service: RPCV Scott Lacey builds school in Mali 1 January 2004
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2004; COS - Mali; Service

• 2004: Service: Two Peace Corps Volunteers Return to Panama by Bud Keith, Steve Spangler 1 January 2004
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2004; COS - Panama; Return to our Country of Service - Panama

• 2003: Service: 2003: Laura Ferguson served in Bangladesh in Rajshahi beginning in 2003 31 December 2003
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2003

• 2003: Service: 2003: Hope Wall served in Guyana in Wakapoa beginning in 2003 31 December 2003
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2003

• 2003: Service: 2003: April S. served in Madagascar in Vohipeno beginning in 2003 31 December 2003
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2003

• 2003: Service: 2003: Emily McCue served in Madagascar in Ankoba beginning in 2003 31 December 2003
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2003

• 2003: Service: 2003: Kristin Bork served in Mongolia in Ulaanbaatar beginning in 2003 31 December 2003
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2003

• 2003: Service: 2003: Mark Rosenwald served in Mongolia in Manhan Soum, Hovd, Darkhan beginning in 2003 31 December 2003
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2003

• 2003: Service: 2003: Molly Royce served in Paraguay in Cerrito, Benjamin ACEVAL beginning in 2003 31 December 2003
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2003

• 2003: Service: 2003: Mack Casey served in Philippines in Dumaguete City beginning in 2003 31 December 2003
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2003

• 2003: Service: 2003: Caleb Stewart served in Thailand in Songkhom, Nongkhai beginning in 2003 31 December 2003
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2003

• 2003: Service: 2003: Thomas O'Keeffe served in Ukraine in Lviv beginning in 2003 31 December 2003
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2003

• 2003: Service: 2003: Janessa Stream Graves served in Fiji Islands in Taveuni, Labasa beginning in 2003 31 December 2003
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2003; COS - Fiji

• 2003: Service: Botwana RPCV Kendall Cox promotes Habitat for Humanity 29 December 2003
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2003; COS - Botswana; Service

• 2003: Service: Colombia RPCV Sue Patterson is founder of Women´s International Network for Guatemalan Solutions (Wings) 29 December 2003
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2003; Service; COS - Colombia; COS - Guatemala

• 2003: Service: RPCV Barry Rosen returns to Afghanistan to serve in Kabul University 19 December 2003
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2003; COS - Afghanistan; COS - Iran; Return to our Country of Service - Afghanistan

• 2003: Service: RPCV Jayne Lewis Kulzer and her 7-year-old daughter travel in Kenya and Tanzania 19 December 2003
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2003; COS - Kenya; Return to our Country of Service - Kenya

• 2003: Service: Morocco RPCV Sarah Chayes discovers the exhilarating power speaking the truth as she sees it 11 December 2003
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2003; COS - Afghanistan; COS - Morocco; Journalism; Service

• 2003: Service: Breaking Ranks in Afghanistan By Sarah Chayes 11 December 2003
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2003; COS - Afghanistan; COS - Morocco; Journalism; Service

• 2003: Service: David Eisner Confirmed as New CEO of Corporation for National and Community Service 10 December 2003
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2003; Americorps

• 2003: Service: RPCV Molly Melching helps Senegal Program eradicate Female Genital Mutilation 7 December 2003
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2003; Service; COS - Senegal; Women's Issues

• 2003: Service: From Radio Reporter to Relief Worker, Sarah Chayes Wanted to Make a Difference 5 December 2003
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2003; COS - Afghanistan; COS - Morocco; Journalism; Service

• 2003: Service: Ethiopia RPCV Phil Lilienthal reaches out to Africa's orphans 4 December 2003
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2003; COS - Ethiopia; Orphans; Service

• 2003: Service: Tanzania RPCV Phyllis Craun still follows the road less traveled 4 December 2003
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2003; COS - Tanzania; COS - Bangladesh; Service; HIV; AIDS

• 2003: Service: Chile RPCV Alex L. Zipperer's service in the Peace Corps gave him a love for Spanish, which he uses to represent pro bono clients in Georgia's growing coastal Hispanic community 1 December 2003
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2003; COS - Chile; Service; Law

• 2003: Service: Ecuador RPCV Monique Ware develops community health, wellness and outreach services 1 December 2003
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2003; COS - Ecuador; Service

• 2003: Service: RPCV William Niles returns to Niger 1 December 2003
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2003; COS - Niger

• 2003: Service: School honors The Gambia RPCV James Llewellyn 30 November 2003
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2003; COS - The Gambia; Engineering; Service

• 2003: Service: Foreign students get taste of America from Returned Volunteers 30 November 2003
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2003; Service; Local Groups

• 2003: Service: RPCV Julie Amakobe and husband striving to modernize Nasusi, Kenya 30 November 2003
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2003; Service; COS - Kenya; Oregon

• 2003: Service: Zimbabwe RPCV Debra Harley created program to link youth to their history in Africa 27 November 2003
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2003; COS - Zimbabwe; Service; Primary Education; Exchange Programs

• 2003: Service: Zimbabwe RPCV Debra Harley created program to link youth to their history in Africa 27 November 2003
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2003; COS - Zimbabwe; Service; Primary Education; Exchange Programs

• 2003: Service: El Salvador RPCV John Schlueter and wife Romalia give helping hand and hope to Latinos in Wisconsin 26 November 2003
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2003; COS - El Salvador; Service; Wisconsin

• 2003: Service: RPCV Becky Diehl creates Nicaragua Scholarship Program 26 November 2003
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2003; Service; COS - Nicaragua

• 2003: Service: Bolivia Staffer Nancy Ann Pettis dies in Virginia - was president and chief executive officer of VOICE International, an information clearinghouse and technical assistance network 21 November 2003
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2003; Obituaries; COS - Bolivia; Service; Virginia

• 2003: Service: Pedals for Progress gives new lives to old bikes 20 November 2003
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2003; Bicycles; Service

• 2003: Service: RPCV reunites with Iranian 'mom' 17 November 2003
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2003; COS - Iran; Return to our Country of Service - Iran

• 2003: Service: Ethiopia RPCV Phil Lilienthal created WorldCamps with the mission of establishing residential summer camps in African countries 1 November 2003
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2003; COS - Ethiopia; Service; Camps

• 2003: Service: Nigeria RPCV Don S. Samuelson invests his time and money in revitalizing urban areas 31 October 2003
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2003; COS - Nigeria; Service; Illinois

• 2003: Service: National Service is not supposed to be servitude 31 October 2003
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2003; National Service; Speaking Out

• 2003: Service: PCV found discouragement and disappointment in Zambia (Part 2) 22 October 2003
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2003; COS - Zambia; PCVs in the Field - Zambia; Service

• 2003: Service: PCV found discouragement and disappointment in Zambia (Part 3) 22 October 2003
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2003; COS - Zambia; PCVs in the Field - Zambia; Service

• 2003: Service: Interview with Sarah Chayes: Danger, Determination and Destiny 1 October 2003
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2003; COS - Afghanistan; COS - Morocco; Journalism; Service

• 2003: Service: Ethiopia RPCV Sally Timmel heads a women's training center in South Africa 1 October 2003
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2003; COS - Ethiopia; Service

• 2003: Service: RPCV Cheryl Ray is the director of a scholarship program to bring Afghan graduates to the United States 1 October 2003
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2003; Service; COS - Afghanistan

• 2003: Service: Candidate Kerry promotes Peace Corps service 15 September 2003
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2003; National Service; Politics; Iowa

• 2003: Service: Irene and Daniel Owens traveled to Senegal, West Africa for a three-week visit in celebration of their recent wedding and marked the eleventh anniversary of Daniel's Peace Corps service in the village of Wendou Nody 14 September 2003
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2003; COS - Senegal; Return to our Country of Service - Senegal

• 2003: Service: The Loret Miller Ruppe Center for Sustainable Development 4 September 2003
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2003; Loret Ruppe Miller (Director 1981 - 1989); Development; Service

• 2003: Service: RPCV Pavla Zakova-Laney founded Educare-Africa to help students in Cameroon 1 September 2003
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2003; COS - Cameroon; Service

• 2003: Service: Zimbabwe RPCV Andrew Shue founds "Do Something" 1 September 2003
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2003; COS - Zimbabwe; Service; Acting

• 2003: Service: Interview with Do Something Founder , Zimbabwe RPCV, and Actor Andrew Shue 1 September 2003
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2003; Service; COS - Zimbabwe; Acting

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• 2003: Service: RPCV start Senegalese Education Fund 29 August 2003
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2003; COS - Senegal; Service

• 2003: Service: RPCV Judith Kader hopes to help Senegalese 29 August 2003
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2003; COS - Senegal; Service

• 2003: Service: RPCV Jennifer Seaver returns to Iran 28 August 2003
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2003; COS - Iran; Return to our Country of Service - Iran

• 2003: Service: Returned Volunteers form new organization called BRIDGE to work in Ghana 27 August 2003
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2003; COS - Ghana; Service

• 2003: Service: Philippines RPCV Louise Mooney keeps busy, but it’s never ‘work’ 25 August 2003
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2003; COS - Philippines; Older Volunteers; Service

• 2003: Service: Elyssa Sherman and Christopher Burk talk about experiences as Volunteers in Panama 20 August 2003
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2003; COS - Panama; Service

• 2003: Service: The Edge of Paradise: America in Micronesia Palau RPCV P.F. Kluge 17 August 2003
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2003; COS - Palau; Writing - Palau; Return to our Country of Service - Palau

• 2003: Service: RPCVs Dave Orphal and Sharona Thompson head back to Senegal to work for elimination of Female Genital Mutilation 17 August 2003
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2003; COS - Senegal; Service; Female Genital Mutilation; Health Education; Return to our Country of Service - Senegal

• 2003: Service: Morocco RPCV Veronique Latimer works in "The Food Project" to feed the hungry -- and the soul 17 August 2003
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2003; Service; Hunger; COS - Morocco; Massachusetts

• 2003: Service: In 1969, Laurence Connors came here as a Peace Corps volunteer and worked for some years in Myagdi, a remote district at that time 16 August 2003
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2003; COS - Nepal; Return to our Country of Service - Nepal; Service

• 2003: Service: Nepal RPCV Jackie Rahm is the founder of Shaping New Worlds 16 August 2003
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2003; COS - Nepal; Service

• 2003: Service: was raised in a poor remote village of Gorkha District in Nepal. The American Peace Corps program was very helpful in leading me in the right direction 16 August 2003
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2003; COS - Nepal; Service

• 2003: Service: RPCV Rod Foley throws Lifeline to a poor Guatemalan village 15 August 2003
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2003; COS - Guatemala; Service; New Jersey

• 2003: Service: Debbie Fillis says spending a year teaching children in Namibia can enrich your education beyond measure 15 August 2003
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2003; COS - Namibia; Service

• 2003: Service: El Salvador RPCV Heather Jacobs is new Riverkeeper for Pamlico-Tar River 10 August 2003
  Tags: Headlines: August, 2003; COS - El Salvador; Advocacy; Service; Conservation; Environment

• 2003: Service: The High Atlas Foundation (HAF) is a non-profit 501c(3) organization whose aim is to establish community-based projects in Morocco that local people design in partnership with government and non-government agencies. HAF was created by Peace Corps Volunteers and staff who served in Morocco. 20 July 2003
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2003; COS - Morocco; Service; COS Groups

• 2003: Service: Robert Zambrano was a member of the second Peace Corps group in Morocco, teaching surveying and English from 1963 to 1965 20 July 2003
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2003; COS - Morocco; Return to our Country of Service - Morocco

• 2003: Service: A small group of returned Peace Corps volunteers were determined to see for themselves what their hearts already knew, that is, that Morocco still welcomes tourists 20 July 2003
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2003; COS - Morocco; Return to our Country of Service - Morocco

• 2003: Service: Togo RPCV Paul Goodrich uses Soccer to connect to Africa 19 July 2003
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2003; COS - Togo; Soccer; Minority Volunteers; Sports; Service

• 2003: Service: Ecuador RPCVs Donald and Pat Clausen retire, plan to work with poor in Central America 17 July 2003
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2003; Service; Older Volunteers

• 2003: Service: RPCV Scott Rosenberg organized Habitat for Humanity in Lesotho 9 July 2003
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2003; COS - Lesotho; Service

• 2003: Service: Paraguay RPCV Ann Charles Watts is new Executive Director of Athens County Habitat for Humanity 7 July 2003
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2003; COS - Paraguay; Service

• 2003: Service: [2]Paraguay RPCV Ann Charles Watts is new Executive Director of Athens County Habitat for Humanity 7 July 2003
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2003; COS - Paraguay; Service

• 2003: Service: RPCV Nancy Vorkink formed "The Friends of Daniel" to help Liberian student 6 July 2003
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2003; COS - Liberia; Service

• 2003: Service: RPCV Nancy Vorkink seeks to sponsor Liberian Refugee 6 July 2003
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2003; COS - Liberia; Refugees; Service

• 2003: Service: Malawi RPCV Tom Vitaglione volunteer at Malawi Children's Village in Mangochi 6 July 2003
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2003; COS - Malawi; HIV; Service

• 2003: Service: Mail Services and Returned Peace Corps Volunteer (RPCV) Contact Database Updating 5 July 2003
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2003

• 2003: Service: Togo RPCV Paul Goodrich honored for African Sports Outreach 3 July 2003
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2003; COS - Togo; Soccer; Sports; Service; Oregon

• 2003: Service: Tunisia RPCV Kevin Stinnette gives the Indian River a voice 2 July 2003
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2003; COS - Tunisia; Service; Advocacy; Conservation; Environment

• 2003: Service: Peace Corps Director Honors Area Girl Scouts for Book Donation 1 July 2003
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2003; COS - Micronesia; Service

• 2003: Service: Jimmy Carter presented the Lillian Carter Award to outstanding senior RPCV 1 July 2003
  Tags: Headlines: July, 2003; Older Volunteers; COS - Dominican Republic; COS - El Salvador; Service; Awards

• 2003: Service: Tony Gasbarro wins Lillian Carter Award 30 June 2003
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2003; Older Volunteers; COS - El Salvador; COS - Dominican Republic; Service; Awards; Alaska

• 2003: Service: Carter presents award to senior volunteer 27 June 2003
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2003; Older Volunteers; COS - El Salvador; COS - Dominican Republic; Service; Awards

• 2003: Service: Matthew Chico was Peace Corps staff member following his volunteer assignment in the Republic of Kiribati 22 June 2003
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2003; COS - Kiribati; Service

• 2003: Service: Max Boykoff and Monica Moore were in Duyure, Choluteca when Hurricane Mitch tore through and devastated southern Honduras. 21 June 2003
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2003; COS - Honduras; Disaster Relief; Service

• 2003: Service: Stacy Vern Hegg gets 20 tons of books for Mozambique 19 June 2003
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2003; COS - Mozambique; Service; Minnesota

• 2003: Service: Message Center for Afghanistan RPCVs 15 June 2003
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• 2003: Service: Message Center for Albania RPCVs 15 June 2003
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• 2003: Service: RPCV Denise Barrett evacuated from Mercy Corps assignment in Liberia 12 June 2003
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2003; COS - Liberia; NGO's; Service; Safety and Security of Volunteers; Oregon

• 2003: Service: Direct Relief International President Thomas Tighe Recognized by Aspen Institute as Emerging Leader 11 June 2003
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2003; COS - Thailand; Service; California

• 2003: Service: Brazil RPCV Don Muirhead works with Partners of America in Paraiba 7 June 2003
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2003; COS - Brazil; Service

• 2003: Service: Jamaica RPCV David Whitten and wife make a difference in lives of 14 adopted disabled children 7 June 2003
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2003; COS - Jamaica; Disabilities; Adoption; Service

• 2003: Service: RPCV Ric Haas helps hospital in Ethiopia treat obstetric fistulas 4 June 2003
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2003; COS - Ethiopia; Service

• 2003: Service: Nicaragua RPCV Max Boykoff establishes non-profit to sell coffee 3 June 2003
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2003; COS - Nicaragua; Service; Married Couples; Coffee

• 2003: Service: Pedals for Progress sends unused bikes for the needy 3 June 2003
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2003; Service; COS - Ecuador; Bicycles

• 2003: Service: RPCVs talk about experiences in Vanuatu 2 June 2003
  Tags: Headlines: June, 2003; COS - Vanuatu; Service; World Wise Schools

• 2003: Service: Peace Corps Training Officer Kim Skrtic attended White House Ceremony 28 May 2003
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2003; COS - Botswana; COS - Yemen; COS - Lithuania; COS - Ghana

• 2003: Service: Richard Weingarten was a Peace Corps volunteer in Northeast Brazil. Since 1997, he's spent my vacations traveling and working in Brazil as an Outside Consultant on mental health projects with colleagues in Rio and Sao Paulo. 26 May 2003
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2003; COS - Brazil; Return to our Country of Service - Brazil

• 2003: Service: Congo RPCV Charles Lewis builds his dream of Multi-cultural Art Center 26 May 2003
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2003; COS - Congo Kinshasa; Service; NGO's; Oregon

• 2003: Service: RPCV Fil Villanueva starts cholarship fund for students in the Philippnes 26 May 2003
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2003; COS - Philippines; Service

• 2003: Service: Peace Corps Nigeria Alumni Foundation 25 May 2003
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2003; COS - Nigeria; Service

• 2003: Service: Peace Corps Alumni Launch Scholarship Program in Nigeria 25 May 2003
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2003; COS - Nigeria; Service

• 2003: Service: Senator Kerry calls for expanding Peace Corps to 25,000 19 May 2003
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2003; Politics; Congress; National Service

• 2003: Service: State colleagues recognize Nigeria RPCV Peter Stolzman with Peace Award 17 May 2003
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2003; COS - Nigeria; Service; Awards

• 2003: Service: Chile and Costa Rica Country Director Paul Bell dies in Costa Rica, served as Chair for International Search and Rescue Assistance Group 16 May 2003
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2003; COS - Chile; Country Directors - Chile; Service; COS - Costa Rica; Country Directors - Costa Rica

• 2003: Service: Nicaragua PCV Julie McGlaughlin works with Project Dreams 16 May 2003
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2003; COS - Nicaragua; Service

• 2003: Service: RPCV Stephen Grogoza returns to Togo as election observer 12 May 2003
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2003; COS - Togo; Service; Return to our Country of Service; Law

• 2003: Service: Jamaica RPCV Kathy Bryan returns to life of volunteer work 9 May 2003
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2003; COS - Jamaica; Service

• 2003: Service: RPCV Bobbi Bronstein returns to Liberia 8 May 2003
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2003; COS - Liberia

• 2003: Service: RPCV Bobbi Bronstein returns to Liberia 8 May 2003
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2003; COS - Liberia

• 2003: Service: Swaziland RPCV Chris Matthews does benefit for Shore Memorial Hospital 5 May 2003
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2003; COS - Swaziland; Journalism; Television; Service

• 2003: Service: Life after War: Under the guidance of the President of Afhanistan’s brother, Quyam Karzai, Sarah Chayes set out to rebuild one remote village- thirteen simple houses 2 May 2003
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2003; COS - Afghanistan; COS - Morocco; Journalism; Service; Movies; Documentaries

• 2003: Service: Special Law Day Salute to Sargent Shriver 1 May 2003
  Tags: Headlines: May, 2003; Sargent Shriver (Director 1961 - 1966); Service; Law; Maryland

• 2003: Service: Romania RPCV Kim Tompkins formed a mentoring club in 1997, working with the local orphanage 30 April 2003
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2003; COS - Romania; Service; Orphans

• 2003: Service: Romania RPCV Kim Tompkins formed a mentoring club in 1997, working with the local orphanage 30 April 2003
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2003; COS - Romania; Service; Orphans

• 2003: Service: 2003 National Conference on Community Volunteering and National Service 28 April 2003
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2003; Service; Americorps; USA Freedom Corps

• 2003: Service: RPCV Shelby Tarutis, who founded GambiaHELP (Health Education Liason Project) 27 April 2003
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2003; COS - The Gambia; Service

• 2003: Service: RPCV Pavla Zakova-Laney, founder of Educare-Africa, makes 4th trip to Cameroon 26 April 2003
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2003; COS - Cameroon; Service

• 2003: Service: Zaire RPCV Edward D. Kiely named executive director of the Foreign-born Information and Referral Network 18 April 2003
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2003; COS - Congo Kinshasa; Service

• 2003: Service: Mike Shelton Returns to Venezuela – 27 Years after Leaving Peace Corps 18 April 2003
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2003; COS - Venezuela; Return to our Country of Service - Venezuela

• 2003: Service: Mike Shelton Returns to Venezuela – 27 Years after Leaving Peace Corps 18 April 2003
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2003; COS - Venezuela; Return to our Country of Service - Venezuela

• 2003: Service: Guatemala RPCV Rupert Scofield runs FINCA International 17 April 2003
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2003; Service; COS - Guatemala; COS - Tanzania

• 2003: Service: Cosa Rica RPCV Gail Nystrom directs Costa Rican Humanitarian Foundation 17 April 2003
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2003; Service; COS - Costa Rica

• 2003: Service: Kenya RPCV Yvonne Taylor founded One Heart with Africa 16 April 2003
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2003; COS - Kenya; Service; Music

• 2003: Service: Dan Diliberti: From Chile to County Board - A Journey of Public Service 13 April 2003
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2003; COS - Chile; Service; Politics

• 2003: Service: Chuck and Betty Selander were married in 1965, and by June 1966 they had volunteered for the Peace Corps in Chile 13 April 2003
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2003; COS - Chile

• 2003: Service: Pedals for Progress distributes 62,016 bicycles 7 April 2003
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2003; Service; Bicycles

• 2003: Service: Pedals for Progress distributes 62,016 bicycles 7 April 2003
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2003; Service; Bicycles

• 2003: Service: Barbados RPCV Lynn Fisher works with Operation MOM to support active military personnel 2 April 2003
  Tags: Headlines: April, 2003; Iraq; COS - Barbados; Service

• 2003: Service: RPCV Christy Nichols leads youth to work in HIV/AIDS education in Zambia 31 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; COS - Zambia; AIDS Education; Service; HIV

• 2003: Service: Kenya RPCV Daniel Van Lehman leads effort to resettle hundreds of Somali Bantu refugees 27 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; COS - Kenya; COS - Somalia; Service; Refugees

• 2003: Service: Thailand RPCV Thomas Tighe's Direct Relief International holds nonprofit world's first "shareholder" meeting 27 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; COS - Thailand; Service; California

• 2003: Service: Fiji RPCV Stephanie Odegard helps keep child labor from being swept under the rug 26 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; COS - Fiji

• 2003: Service: RPCV Scott Phair works with the BluePack Project to help children in Afghanistan 25 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; Service; COS - Afghanistan; Maine

• 2003: Service: RPCV Scott Phair works with the BluePack Project to help children in Afghanistan 25 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; Service; COS - Afghanistan; Maine

• 2003: Service: Liberia RPCV Huy Pham setting up a refugee relief project for Iraqi war victims 24 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; Service; COS - Liberia; War in Iraq

• 2003: Service: RPCV Ruth Snyder raises funds to build school in Congo Brazzaville 20 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; Service

• 2003: Service: RPCV Ruth Snyder raises funds to build school in Congo Brazzaville 20 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; Service

• 2003: Service: RPCV Linda McKinney helps Khmer Rouge defectors settle 20 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; Service; Immigrants

• 2003: Service: Brazil RPCV Billy Heikkinen: from Peace Corps to military career 19 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; COS - Brazil

• 2003: Service: Brazil RPCV Billy Heikkinen: from Peace Corps to military career 19 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; COS - Brazil; National Service; Army

• 2003: Service: Malawi RPCV Theroux returns to Africa: Little light in the heart of darkness 19 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; COS - Malawi; Return to our Country of Service; Writing - Malawi

• 2003: Service: Malawi RPCV Theroux returns to Africa: Little light in the heart of darkness 19 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; COS - Malawi; Return to our Country of Service; Writing - Malawi

• 2003: Service: Pakistan RPCV Bart Duff makes plans to work in Philippines 19 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; COS - Pakistan; COS - Philippines; Service; Agriculture; Oregon

• 2003: Service: Pakistan RPCV Bart Duff makes plans to work in Philippines 19 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; COS - Pakistan; COS - Philippines; Service; Agriculture; Oregon

• 2003: Service: Dinner to Honor Sargent Shriver for the National Center on Poverty Law 19 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; Sargent Shriver (Director 1961 - 1966); Service; History; Maryland

• 2003: Service: RPCV Alisa Meggitt helps raise $3,000 for relief effort in Senegal 14 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; COS - Senegal; Service; Iowa

• 2003: Service: RPCV Alisa Meggitt helps raise $3,000 for relief effort in Senegal 14 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; COS - Senegal; Service

• 2003: Service: An RPCV searches for the past in Thailand (Part 3) 13 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; COS - Thailand; Return to our Country of Service - Thailand

• 2003: Service: An RPCV searches for the past in Thailand (Part 3) 13 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; COS - Thailand; Return to our Country of Service - Thailand

• 2003: Service: Guatemala RPCVs Lora and Pat Whalen embrace microbank project in Honduras 7 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; COS - Honduras; COS - Guatemala; Service

• 2003: Service: [Access0] Guatemala RPCVs Lora and Pat Whalen embrace microbank project in Honduras 7 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; COS - Honduras; COS - Guatemala; Service

• 2003: Service: Guatemala RPCVs Steve and Dana Wetzel.support microbank project in Honduras 7 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; COS - Honduras; COS - Guatemala; Service

• 2003: Service: Malawi RPCV Paul Theroux at his cranky best returns to Malawi 3 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; COS - Malawi; Writing - Malawi; Return to our Country of Service - Malawi

• 2003: Service: Malawi RPCV Paul Theroux at his cranky best returns to Malawi 3 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; COS - Malawi; Writing - Malawi; Return to our Country of Service - Malawi

• 2003: Service: Thailand RPCV Thomas Tighe's DRI to hold Shareholders' Meeting and Symposium 3 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; COS - Thailand; Service; California

• 2003: Service: Thailand RPCV Thomas Tighe's DRI to hold Shareholders' Meeting and Symposium 3 March 2003
  Tags: Headlines: March, 2003; COS - Thailand; Service; California

• 2003: Service: An RPCV searches for the past in Thailand 28 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; COS - Thailand; Return to our Country of Service - Thailand

• 2003: Service: An RPCV searches for the past in Thailand (Part 2) 28 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; COS - Thailand; Return to our Country of Service - Thailand

• 2003: Service: An RPCV searches for the past in Thailand 28 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; COS - Thailand; Return to our Country of Service - Thailand

• 2003: Service: An RPCV searches for the past in Thailand (Part 2) 28 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; COS - Thailand; Return to our Country of Service - Thailand

• 2003: Service: Burkina Faso RPCV D.J. Schubert is new manager at world-famous Fund for Animals' Black Beauty Ranch 28 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; Service; COS - Burkina Faso

• 2003: Service: Burkina Faso RPCV D.J. Schubert is new manager at world-famous Fund for Animals' Black Beauty Ranch 28 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; Service; COS - Burkina Faso

• 2003: Service: Phil Lilienthal, Ethiopia 6 (1965-67), worked as a lawyer and started a summer camp, Camp Langano, in Ethiopia. 27 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; COS - Ethiopia; Service

• 2003: Service: Phil Lilienthal, Ethiopia 6 (1965-67), worked as a lawyer and started a summer camp, Camp Langano, in Ethiopia. 27 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; COS - Ethiopia; Service; Camps

• 2003: Service: I left the United States with the expectation that I was returning to do the kind of work that inspires me most in a country similar to the Dominican Republic where I served as a Peace Corps Volunteer. 24 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; COS - Dominican Republic; Service; COS - Nicaragua

• 2003: Service: Sierra Leone RPCV Lisa Sechler and her husband Stephen Dolan teach doctors about treatment of AIDS patients in Uganda 23 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; AIDS; Medicine; COS - Sierra Leone; COS - Uganda; Service; HIV

• 2003: Service: Sierra Leone RPCV Lisa Sechler and her husband Stephen Dolan teach doctors about treatment of AIDS patients in Uganda 23 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; COS - Sierra Leone; AIDS; Medicine; COS - Uganda; Service; HIV

• 2003: Service: Letter from Thomas Tighe, Direct Relief International President 23 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; COS - Thailand; Service; 911; California

• 2003: Service: Profile of Thomas Tighe 23 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; COS - Thailand; Service; California

• 2003: Service: Letter from Thomas Tighe, Direct Relief International President 23 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; Service; COS - Thailand; California

• 2003: Service: Profile of Thomas Tighe 23 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; Service; COS - Thailand; California

• 2003: Service: Last October I shared with the Chairman of Holt’s Board of Directors that the Peace Corps had communicated with me regarding a possible position as their country director in Thailand 22 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; COS - Thailand; Country Directors - Thailand; Service; Children

• 2003: Service: Thailand RPCV Jim Cole, leader of Spectral Voices whose a cappela overtone harmonizing within a 120-ft.-tall abandoned water tower was featured in Sky and Coalescence 22 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; COS - Thailand; Music; Service; Refugees

• 2003: Service: In June and July 2001, I went to the Philippines to visit my friend Noah and revisit "The Peace Corps Experience." (Part 1) 17 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; COS - Philippines; COS - Mongolia; Return to our Country of Service - Philippines

• 2003: Service: In June and July 2001, I went to the Philippines to visit my friend Noah and revisit "The Peace Corps Experience." (Part 2) 17 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; COS - Philippines; COS - Mongolia; Return to our Country of Service - Philippines

• 2003: Service: Doreen Meyers' noble mission in Mayoyao 17 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; COS - Philippines; Service; Libraries

• 2003: Service: Thomas Tighe's Direct Relief International is ready if war breaks out 17 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; COS - Thailand; Service; California

• 2003: Service: Going Home to Neijiang: A former Peace Corps volunteer returns to find his Sichuan town transformed 16 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; COS - China; Return to our Country of Service - Philippines; PCVs in the Field - China

• 2003: Service: Panama RPCV Florence Reed making a difference 10 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; COS - Honduras; Forestry; NGO's; Service

• 2003: Service: Drawbacks and benefits of national service 9 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; Speaking Out; COS - Malaysia; National Service

• 2003: Service: Guatemala RPCV Naren Sonpal helps Central American farmers market their coffee 7 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; COS - Guatemala; Service; Coffee

• 2003: Service: RPCV Thomas Gouttierre helps Cities in Afghanistan and Nebraska Forge "Sister Cities" Partnership 3 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; COS - Afghanistan; Service; Nebraska

• 2003: Service: RPCV Lloyd Everson helps family in Guatemala 1 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; COS - Guatemala; Service

• 2003: Service: Passback and the Peace Corps in Malawi 1 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; COS - Malawi; Sports; Service

• 2003: Service: The Hills of Dowa Enterprise Zones (HODEZ) Project was started by a United States Peace Corps Volunteer in 1990 in Malawi 1 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; COS - Malawi; Service; Agriculture

• 2003: Service: Colombia RPCV John Weldon Scott helps build school in Viet Nam 1 February 2003
  Tags: Headlines: February, 2003; Service; COS - Colombia; COS - Dominican Republic

• 2003: Service: Guatemala RPCV Naren Sonpal helps farmers market their coffee 30 January 2003
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2003; COS - Guatemala; Coffee Imports; Service

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• 2003: Service: Malawi RPCV Paul Theroux's journey through Africa 30 January 2003
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2003; COS - Malawi; Writing - Malawi; Return to our Country of Service - Malawi

• 2003: Service: Sierra Leone RPCV Gerri Preston leads a lifetime of volunteering 29 January 2003
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2003; COS - Sierra Leone; Service

• 2003: Service: RPCV Tom Belsky returns to Brazil (Part II) 26 January 2003
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2003; COS - Brazil; Return to our Country of Service - Brazil

• 2003: Service: Zaire RPCV Peter Kittany leads the N.C. Rural Communities Assistance Project 26 January 2003
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2003; COS - Congo Kinshasa; Service; North Carolina

• 2003: Service: Harris Wofford: A leader in community service 25 January 2003
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2003; COS - Ethiopia; Country Directors - Ethiopia; Pennsylvania

• 2003: Service: Honduras RPCV Kathryn Tschiegg founded Central American Medical Outreach 17 January 2003
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2003; Service; COS - Honduras

• 2003: Service: Brazil RPCV Sharon Price founds Children in Villages and Faith Association 15 January 2003
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2003; COS - Brazil; Service; COS - Guatemala

• 2003: Service: PCV Caroline Kondrat organizes Harambee for Hope, Home & Heifers to benefit Kenya 12 January 2003
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2003; COS - Kenya; Service

• 2003: Service: RPCV Tom Belsky returns to Brazil 10 January 2003
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2003; COS - Brazil; Return to our Country of Service - Brazil

• 2003: Service: PCV found discouragement and disappointment in Zambia 9 January 2003
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2003; Service; COS - Zambia; PCVs in the Field - Zambia

• 2003: Service: Ghana RPCV Trevor Harmon writes about how volunteers with computer and engineering skills can make a difference 6 January 2003
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2003; COS - Ghana; Engineering; Service; Computers; Internet; Digital Freedom Initiative

• 2003: Service: Ghana RPCV Trevor Harmon writes about how volunteers with computer and engineering skills can make a difference 6 January 2003
  Tags: Headlines: January, 2003; COS - Ghana; Engineering; Service; Computers; Internet; Digital Freedom Initiative

• 2002: Service: 2002: Troy Beckman served in Bangladesh in Rangpur beginning in 2002 31 December 2002
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2002

• 2002: Service: 2002: Dave Elmstrom served in Bulgaria in Nova Zagora beginning in 2002 31 December 2002
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• 2002: Service: 2002: Andrea Kersten served in Cameroon in Maroua, Far North Province beginning in 2002 31 December 2002
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• 2002: Service: 2002: Eric Thomas Mueller served in Cape Verde in Porto Novo beginning in 2002 31 December 2002
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• 2002: Service: 2002: Melissa Eker served in Georgia in Chokhatauri beginning in 2002 31 December 2002
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• 2002: Service: 2002: Colin Andrew Johnson served in Honduras in Juticalpa beginning in 2002 31 December 2002
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• 2002: Service: 2002: Kristi Schober served in Malawi in Diamphwe beginning in 2002 31 December 2002
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• 2002: Service: 2002: Scott Allan Wallick served in Nepal in Birganj (Birgunj) beginning in 2002 31 December 2002
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• 2002: Service: 2002: laura bacon served in Niger in Konni / Illela / Tahoua beginning in 2002 31 December 2002
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• 2002: Service: 2002: Juliana Camacho served in South Africa in Olifantsdrift beginning in 2002 31 December 2002
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• 2002: Service: 2002: joan coleman served in Tanzania in Mwanza beginning in 2002 31 December 2002
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• 2002: Service: 2002: Carolyn A. Judge served in Thailand in Kamalasai District (in Kalasin Province) beginning in 2002 31 December 2002
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• 2002: Service: 2002: jamie dillon served in Vanuatu in Narovorovo, Maewo and Port Vila beginning in 2002 31 December 2002
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• 2002: Service: RPCV David Jaynes returns to Iran on goodwill tour 27 December 2002
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2002; COS - Iran; Peace Building; Return to our Country of Service - Iran

• 2002: Service: Web Opens World to Digital Volunteers 27 December 2002
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2002; Service; Internet

• 2002: Service: Web Opens World to Digital Volunteers 27 December 2002
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2002; Service; Internet

• 2002: Service: Kazakstan RPCV Dave C. Eastman worked as Aid Worker in Afghanistan 26 December 2002
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2002; COS - Kazakhstan; COS - Afghanistan; Stories; What RPCVs are doing; Service

• 2002: Service: Afghanistan RPCVs Norma and Cendric Emory bring medical relief to a war-weary people 20 December 2002
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2002; Service; What RPCVs are doing; COS - Afghanistan; Medicine

• 2002: Service: Brazil RPCV Bob Crites creates "Students helping Street Kids" for South America 19 December 2002
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2002; COS - Brazil; Service

• 2002: Service: Kenya RPCVs send computers to Africa 13 December 2002
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2002; Service; COS - Kenya; Computers

• 2002: Service: Former National Public Radio correspondent Sarah Chayes went to Afghanistan in October 2001 to report on the war. When the fighting - and the news assignment - was over, she sensed her responsibility was just beginning. Feeling a growing need to stop talking about conflict and start doing something about it, she stayed to serve as field director of Afghans for Civil Society, a non-profit group in Baltimore 10 December 2002
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2002; COS - Afghanistan; COS - Morocco; Journalism; Service; Maryland

• 2002: Service: Ghana RPCV gives the gift of sight to Nigerian Teacher 9 December 2002
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2002; COS - Nigeria; COS - Ghana; Service

• 2002: Service: Returned Volunteers host holiday tour for recent immigrants 8 December 2002
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2002; COS - Colombia; Service; Third Goal

• 2002: Service: Civil-Military Program Aims to Win Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan 7 December 2002
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2002; COS - Afghanistan; Service

• 2002: Service: RPCV Gretchen Kafoury makes Eye-opening return trip to Iran 5 December 2002
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2002; COS - Iran; Return to our Country of Service - Iran; Speaking Out; Oregon

• 2002: Service: Jimmy Carter credits Peace Corps mother Lillian Carter as inspiration for peace 5 December 2002
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2002; Service; COS - India; President Carter

• 2002: Service: In front of the Memorial Union on the Michigan Tech campus on Dec. 3, MTU Peace Corps Masters International graduate students, from left, Jeff Ahrens of Wilmington, Del.; Ed Stewart of Charleston, S.C.; and Lyle Stone of southern Calif. volunteer for the 50-hour "sit-in" to raise funds for latrines in West Africa. 3 December 2002
  Tags: Headlines: December, 2002; COS - Cameroon; Service; Advocacy; Fund Raising; Water; Humor

• 2002: Service: RPCVs Bob and Marjorie Leventry sow Seeds of Hope in Ecuador 29 November 2002
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2002; Service; What RPCVs are doing; Business; Agriculture; COS - Ecuador

• 2002: Service: RPCVs Pat and Gerald Hanberry: Couple's mission is to help 24 November 2002
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2002; COS - Honduras; Service

• 2002: Service: Venezuela RPCV Steve Schilling runs $30M non-profit Clinica Sierra Vista 23 November 2002
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2002; Service; Health; Business; COS - Venezuela; Medicine

• 2002: Service: Peace Corps Volunteers renew ties with old friends in Morocco 23 November 2002
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2002; What RPCVs are doing; COS - Morocco; Return to our Country of Service - Morocco

• 2002: Service: RPCV Rob Saleski returns to Iran 20 November 2002
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2002; COS - Iran; Return to our Country of Service - Iran

• 2002: Service: Tanzania RPCV Mike Fay attempts to save a pristine jungle 20 November 2002
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2002; Service; Environment; What RPCVs are doing; COS - Tanzania

• 2002: Service: Mark describes visiting his site in the Ivory Coast after the evacuation 9 November 2002
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2002; COS - Ivory Coast; Safety and Security of Volunteers

• 2002: Service: NPCA sponsors Bridge-building trip to Iran 8 November 2002
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2002; NPCA; COS - Iran; Return to our Country of Service - Iran

• 2002: Service: Reminders of our trip to Iran 2 November 2002
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2002; COS - Iran; Return to our Country of Service - Iran

• 2002: Service: Pakistan RPCV William P. Wolfe is partner in Vermont's Rutland Holiday Inn 1 November 2002
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2002; COS - Pakistan; Service; Business; Vermont

• 2002: Service: Ecuador RPCVs Bob and Marjorie Leventry make Quinoa Soup 1 November 2002
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2002; Service; COS - Ecuador

• 2002: Service: Solomon Islands RPCV Diane Darr to receive Legacy Award 1 November 2002
  Tags: Headlines: November, 2002; What RPCVs are doing; Art; COS - Solomon Islands; Service; Awards

• 2002: Service: Nepal RPCV James Walsh's Visa Programme provides opportunities for young Northern Irish people 24 October 2002
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2002; Service; Congress; COS - Nepal; Speaking Out; New York

• 2002: Service: Peru RPCV Richard Muirhead leads Rotary Club that works with Center of Friendship in Arequipa Peru 18 October 2002
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2002; Service; What RPCVs are doing; COS - Peru; Service

• 2002: Service: Ghana RPCV Rudy Sovinee teaches children tolerance, peaceful conflict resolution, peer mediation and peace building 17 October 2002
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2002; Service; Education; COS - Ghana; Peace Building

• 2002: Service: RPCV Founded Deep Roots aids Namibian Students 15 October 2002
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2002; Service; COS - Namibia

• 2002: Service: David Alvord came on the U.S. Peace Corps' pioneer mission in Korea 13 October 2002
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2002; Return to our Country of Service - Korea; COS - Korea

• 2002: Service: Harris Wofford pushes student service 13 October 2002
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2002; Service; Country Directors - Ethiopia; Pennsylvania

• 2002: Service: St. Lucia RPCV Denise Brown worked with deaf 13 October 2002
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2002; What RPCVs are doing; Service; COS - Saint Lucia

• 2002: Service: Ghana RPCV Gregory Poff returns to Ghana 10 October 2002
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2002; Return to our Country of Service - Ghana; COS - Ghana

• 2002: Service: Morroco RPCV Sarah Chayes starts aid organization in Afghanistan 7 October 2002
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2002; Service; COS - Morocco; COS - Afghanistan; Journalism; Oregon

• 2002: Service: Peace Corps Stint Led RPCV Zelda Uttal to Career in AIDS Education 7 October 2002
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2002; What RPCVs are doing; Service; AIDS; HIV

• 2002: Service: Sierra Leone RPCV Mike Kelleher teaches future volunteers at ISU Stevenson Center for Community and Economic Development 6 October 2002
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2002; Service; COS - Sierra Leone; Education; Community Development

• 2002: Service: Volunteers wrangle with culture at Illinois State University 6 October 2002
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2002; Service; COS - Sierra Leone; Education; Cross Cultural Education

• 2002: Service: Malawi RPCV Paul Theroux returns to Malawi 5 October 2002
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2002; Books; What RPCVs are doing; Return to our Country of Service - Malawi; COS - Malawi

• 2002: Service: RPCV Warner M. Montgomery reports that Squat Johns are now an endangered species in Thailand 3 October 2002
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2002; Humor; Return to our Country of Service - Thailand; COS - Thailand

• 2002: Service: RPCV Delores returned to Honduras to help 3 October 2002
  Tags: Headlines: October, 2002; Service; COS - Honduras; Nursing

• 2002: Service: Somalia RPCV Kenneth Rutherford injured in explosion joins worldwide campaign to ban land mines 27 September 2002
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2002; Service; Advocacy; COS - Somalia; Disabilities; Land Mines

• 2002: Service: Former Peace Corps Director Carol Bellamy speaks about world's problems and opportunities 26 September 2002
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2002; Carol Bellamy (Director 1993 - 1995); COS - Guatemala; Service; Speaking Out; United Nations; New York

• 2002: Service: Honduras RPCV Mark Sipple guides troubled teens 26 September 2002
  Tags: Headlines: September, 2002; Education; Service; What RPCVs are doing; COS - Honduras