February 12, 2005: Headlines: Laos: Personal Web Site: Colm McHugh in Laos says when the Peace Corps were here a few years ago, they were such arseholes that they were asked to leave
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February 12, 2005: Headlines: Laos: Personal Web Site: Colm McHugh in Laos says when the Peace Corps were here a few years ago, they were such arseholes that they were asked to leave
Colm McHugh in Laos says when the Peace Corps were here a few years ago, they were such arseholes that they were asked to leave
It is pretty hard for this to be true since the Peace Corps has never had a program in Laos.
Colm McHugh in Laos says when the Peace Corps were here a few years ago, they were such arseholes that they were asked to leave
Thursday, February 12, 2004
Laos and Cambodia - First Impressions. February 12th 2004.
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As a matter of interest, going the NGO route in Laos can be precarious, because of previous bad experiences that the Lao have had; Virginia Van Ostrand, the director of the Lao-American college, told us that when the Peace Corps where here a few years ago, they were such arseholes that they were asked to leave. It was basically a personality thing, this particular group was just arrogant, and that’s not to imply that the Peace Corps in general are like that. Unfortunately, since then, NGO’s of all kind are deeply distrusted by officialdom here. It's certainly a delicate issue, the whole idea of Wonderful NGO Group coming to magically transform the natives. It requires a lot of respect and sensitivity and diplomacy on the part of the NGO and in the case of the Peace Corps that was somewhat lacking, judging by what I've been told.
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By Anonymous (adsl-67-123-94-67.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net - 67.123.94.67) on Thursday, August 25, 2005 - 5:52 pm: Edit Post |
It's true that the Peace Corps never had a program in Laos, but that doesn't mean they didn't try. It never got off the ground, because of differences between them and the Lao government. See
http://www.country-studies.com/laos/united-states.html
for some details.