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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

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