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In March 2010, this was on the front page of PCOL:
Peace Corps Online The Independent News Forum serving Returned Peace Corps Volunteers 
 | Memo to Incoming Director Williams
PCOL has asked five prominent RPCVs and Staff to write a memo on the most important issues facing the Peace Corps today. Issues raised include the independence of the Peace Corps, political appointments at the agency, revitalizing the five-year rule, lowering the ET rate, empowering volunteers, removing financial barriers to service, increasing the agency's budget, reducing costs, and making the Peace Corps bureaucracy more efficient and responsive. Latest: Greetings from Director Williams |
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Peace Corps Volunteer "They don't play hockey in Burkina Faso...
Peace Corps Volunteer "They don't play hockey in Burkina Faso" writes: I’m realizing that the place I’ll return to at the end of 2011 won’t be the same as it was last June, when I left 1 March 2010
James and Sharon Muir served in the Peace Corps in...
James and Sharon Muir served in the Peace Corps in the Eastern Caribbean in Barbuda for two years 1 March 2010
Ivory coast RPCV Efrem Sigel to Confront A Marriage in...
Ivory coast RPCV Efrem Sigel to Confront A Marriage in his new Novel "The Disappearance" 2 March 2010
Mali RPCV Frank Warnock helped create an unusual course called...
Mali RPCV Frank Warnock helped create an unusual course called "Markets in Human Hope" that will help change how we approach the seemingly intractable problem of poverty 2 March 2010
Judy Irola documents experience as PCV in Niger
Judy Irola is in post-production on Niger ’66, her latest documentary which traces her own experience as a Peace Corps volunteer, contrasted with the culture shock of re-entering the United States amid the turmoil of the late 1960s 2 March 2010
Williams Speaks at University of Texas...
Williams Speaks at University of Texas 2 March 2010
Tom Hyden praises Sweet Potato
Belize RPCV Tom Hyden writes: The sweet potato has been a staple in the American diet for 200 years 3 March 2010
Marlyn Ogburn writes: Having had the great privilege of living...
Marlyn Ogburn writes: Having had the great privilege of living in Concepcion/Talcahuano Chile for more than two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in the 1970s, we are stunned by the earthquake and tsunami that occurred on Saturday morning 3 March 2010
Colombia RPCVs David and Bernadette Miron write: Increased funding needed...
Colombia RPCVs David and Bernadette Miron write: Increased funding needed to strengthen Peace Corps 3 March 2010
Colombia RPCV Chester “Chet” Thomas has been named Pitt-Johnstown’s...
Colombia RPCV Chester “Chet” Thomas has been named Pitt-Johnstown’s 2010 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient 4 March 2010
Ashley Bates reports from Gaza
Jordan RPCV Ashley Bates writes: The Perils of Reporting from Gaza 4 March 2010
Thailand RPCV Merissa Shunk has been with Adventure Stage Chicago...
Thailand RPCV Merissa Shunk has been with Adventure Stage Chicago since 2007 as the Director of Education 4 March 2010
Zambia RPCV Jeff Rhodes urges student activism as Peace corps...
Zambia RPCV Jeff Rhodes urges student activism as Peace corps recruiter 4 March 2010
Williams Meets with RPCV Congressmen...
Williams Meets with RPCV Congressmen 4 March 2010
Peter Hessler writes: The most important part of my education...
Peter Hessler writes: The most important part of my education was the two years I spent in the Peace Corps 4 March 2010
As a young woman in the early 1960s, Jan Schilling...
As a young woman in the early 1960s, Jan Schilling spent two years volunteering with the Peace Corps in the African country Ivory Coast 5 March 2010
Peace Corps Country Director John Sasser says volunteers in Kazakhstan...
Peace Corps Country Director John Sasser says volunteers in Kazakhstan can face physical and cultural challenges, but they also can earn great personal satisfaction from doing work they know is needed and valued 6 March 2010
Obituary for Sierra Leone RPCV Philip Paul Mahle...
Obituary for Sierra Leone RPCV Philip Paul Mahle 6 March 2010
Obituary for India RPCV Mary Caroline Verhoeven...
Obituary for India RPCV Mary Caroline Verhoeven 7 March 2010
Jackie Wald writes: One backpack, one duffel, two years. That's...
Jackie Wald writes: One backpack, one duffel, two years. That's how I started my Peace Corps Panama experience. 7 March 2010
Laurence Leamer writes: Obama Must Keep PC Pledge
Laurence Leamer writes: Obama Must Keep Peace Corps Pledge 7 March 2010
Ann Owens, 72, of Seattle, was a Peace Corps volunteer...
Ann Owens, 72, of Seattle, was a Peace Corps volunteer in Ethiopia when she heard that the president had been killed 8 March 2010
Kenya RPCV Michael Fairbanks is a Co-Founder of SEVEN...
Kenya RPCV Michael Fairbanks is a Co-Founder of SEVEN, a philanthropic foundation run by entrepreneurs, whose strategy is to produce films, books and original research to markedly increase the rate of diffusion of enterprise solutions to global poverty 8 March 2010
Kenya RPCV Michael Fairbanks writes: Communists are Back in Africa...
Kenya RPCV Michael Fairbanks writes: Communists are Back in Africa 8 March 2010
Ron Ranson Jr. was a Peace Corps English teacher in...
Ron Ranson Jr. was a Peace Corps English teacher in Nepal from 1964 to 1966 8 March 2010
Jimmie Dungan calls Chile home as he ranches in central...
Jimmie Dungan calls Chile home as he ranches in central Chile after coming to the country as a Peace Corps volunteer 45 years ago 9 March 2010
Mark Wheeler was a basketball star before he went to...
Mark Wheeler was a basketball star before he went to El Salvador to help rebuild a country that had been ravaged by civil war 9 March 2010
During his 2 1/2 years living in a remote African...
During his 2 1/2 years living in a remote African village in Uganda, Andrew Dernovsek’s mud hut contained a number of things that reminded him of his home and the US 9 March 2010
Nat Harwell writes: There's not enough room to report how...
Nat Harwell writes: There's not enough room to report how many African nations the Peace Corps has abandoned, nor why, on Obama's watch 9 March 2010
Parents of Murdered Peace Corps Volunteer Kate Puzey Speak Out...
Parents of Murdered Peace Corps Volunteer Kate Puzey Speak Out 10 March 2010
Mollie Denhard curates “Collecting in the Peace Corps"
Mollie Denhard curates “Collecting in the Peace Corps: Tangible Memories of the Toughest Job You’ll Ever Love,” which she curated for Wheaton’s Beard Gallery 10 March 2010
Alexa Schirtzinger writes: ln September 2003, wide-eyed and fresh...
Alexa Schirtzinger writes: ln September 2003, wide-eyed and fresh out of college, I landed on a simmering tarmac in El Salvador, the small, crowded country where I would spend the next two years as a Peace Corps volunteer 10 March 2010
Kids to Kids, a youth-focused initiative of Infante Sano...
Kids to Kids, a youth-focused initiative of Infante Sano, has awarded a grant to Elena Rubinfeld to support her work as a Peace Corps Volunteer in El Salvador 10 March 2010
Ethiopia RPCV Ann Owens felt the pain and shock of...
Ethiopia RPCV Ann Owens felt the pain and shock of President John F. Kennedy's death and put pen to paper in a touching letter to her mom 10 March 2010
Jack Roderick was head of the Peace Corps in India...
Jack Roderick was head of the Peace Corps in India 10 March 2010
Village in Kenya Erects Monument to Megan DaPisa
Kenyan village erects monument to Peace Corps Volunteer Megan DaPisa 10 March 2010
George Packer writes: Obama - Progressive or Popuist...
George Packer writes: Obama - Progressive or Popuist? 10 March 2010
Frank Swoboda at World Food Prize HQ
Uzbekistan RPCV Frank Swoboda serves as the director of planning at the the World Food Prize headquarters 10 March 2010
Dominican Republic RPCV Lindsay Kelly Hoag marries artist Edward Robert...
Dominican Republic RPCV Lindsay Kelly Hoag marries artist Edward Robert Castro Telleria 11 March 2010
Ecuador RPCV Kat Kerlin writes: Pregnancy is a time for...
Ecuador RPCV Kat Kerlin writes: Pregnancy is a time for preparation, fear and education 11 March 2010
Romania RPCV Lisa Fisher-Cazacu honored as as a Woman...
Romania RPCV Lisa Fisher-Cazacu honored as as a Woman of Distinction in San Angelo Texas 11 March 2010
Avis Andrews went to Donetsk, Ukraine, as a Peace Corps...
Avis Andrews went to Donetsk, Ukraine, as a Peace Corps volunteer in 1999 11 March 2010
Louise Barber spoke at a recent League of Women Voters...
Louise Barber spoke at a recent League of Women Voters about her service in the Ukraine 11 March 2010
Parents of Murdered PCV Speak Out
Mother says Peace Corps Volunteer Kate Puzey's murder happened within days of her reporting a co-teacher, who was not a Peace Corps volunteer, was sexually abusing some of the female students at the school where they worked 12 March 2010
Light a Candle for Kate Puzey...
Light a Candle for Kate Puzey 12 March 2010
Thailand RPCV Mike Fields coaches Mynderse boys basketball to become...
Thailand RPCV Mike Fields coaches Mynderse boys basketball to become state contender 12 March 2010
Gary Goodson and his wife Robin Wilson have spent the...
Gary Goodson and his wife Robin Wilson have spent the last two years in Turkmenistan through their Peace Corps tour of duty and will share their experiences at the San Marcos Public Library 12 March 2010
Uzbekistan RPCVs Ann Walker and Bob Lee have served as...
Uzbekistan RPCVs Ann Walker and Bob Lee have served as volunteers all over the world 12 March 2010
Nicholas Kristoff writes: Teach for the World Vs. Peace Corps...
Nicholas Kristoff writes: Teach for the World Vs. Peace Corps 12 March 2010
Peace Corps Volunteer "Krissy's latest adventure - Benin, West Africa" writes...
Peace Corps Volunteer "Krissy's latest adventure - Benin, West Africa" writes: Friday, March 12th, marked the 1 year anniversary of the tragic death of Peace Corps Volunteer Catherine Puzey 14 March 2010
Obituary for Michael Ann Doyle, wife of Peace Corps Country...
Obituary for Michael Ann Doyle, wife of Peace Corps Country director for Sri Lanka, Phillipines, and Georgia 14 March 2010
Heath Lowry teaches Turkish Studies at Princeton
Heath Lowry, the Mustafa Kemal Atatürk professor of Ottoman and Turkish Studies at Princeton University, was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Turkey and his spell of nearly two years in the village of Bereketli was to form his introduction to the country that was to become his lifelong passion 14 March 2010
Torkin Wakefield created "Bead for Life" in Uganda
Nicholas Kristoff writes: India RPCV Torkin Wakefield worked with women in Uganda to create Bead for Life 14 March 2010
Zurich North America Commercial’s Specialties business unit names Honduras RPCV...
Zurich North America Commercial’s Specialties business unit names Honduras RPCV Michael Bond to lead its Surety, Credit & Political Risk group 15 March 2010
ke18sb2000 writes: You are right, change in PC is needed...
ke18sb2000 writes: You are right, change in PC is needed. However, money and growth are not the changes it needs right now. 15 March 2010
Peter Hessler writes: The Peace Corps remains misunderstood and poorly...
Peter Hessler writes: The Peace Corps remains misunderstood and poorly supported 15 March 2010
Niger RPCV William V. Timmons writes "Becker's Farm," about a...
Niger RPCV William V. Timmons writes "Becker's Farm," about a German POW on a Nebraska farm 16 March 2010
Uganda RPCV Kathryn Quinones appeared with Brookings Community Theatre (BCT...
Uganda RPCV Kathryn Quinones appeared with Brookings Community Theatre (BCT) in a whodunnit by mystery writer Agatha Christie 16 March 2010
Yemen RPCV Holly Anne Reichert is New Principal for English...
Yemen RPCV Holly Anne Reichert is New Principal for English-Arabic School 16 March 2010
Michael Fairbanks testifies on Aid Policy to Haiti
Kenya RPCV Michael Fairbanks testifies before Congress on Enterprise Solutions to Poverty and U.S. Aid Policy in Haiti 17 March 2010
Mary Hensley is the owner of Eighth Wonder
Phillippines RPCV Mary Hensley is the owner of Eighth Wonder, a Montana based Fair Trade importer of select varieties of rice from the Cordilleras of the Philippines 17 March 2010
South Africa RPCV Emily Arsenault writes "The Broken Tea Glass...
South Africa RPCV Emily Arsenault writes "The Broken Tea Glass" 17 March 2010
Gov. Jim Doyle left Wednesday on a 10-day trade...
Gov. Jim Doyle left Wednesday on a 10-day trade mission to Italy and then Tunisia - a country where he once served as a Peace Corps volunteer 17 March 2010
Director Williams announces that, effective April 1, 2010, the Peace...
Director Williams announces that, effective April 1, 2010, the Peace Corps readjustment allowance that volunteers receive upon returning home from service will increased by $50 to $275 per every month the volunteer served 18 March 2010
Williams Testifies on Vision for Future of Peace Corps
Aaron Williams Vision for the Future of the Peace Corps 18 March 2010
Aaron Williams Testifies Before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State...
Aaron Williams Testifies Before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on State, Foreign Operations, and Related Programs 18 March 2010
Azerbaijan Peace Corps Volunteer "notherebuthere": My Peace Corps "Wife" is...
Azerbaijan Peace Corps Volunteer "notherebuthere": My Peace Corps "Wife" is Leaving Me 21 March 2010
George Packer writes: Barack Obama stared into the abyss of...
George Packer writes: Barack Obama stared into the abyss of a failed Presidency and found the passion and will to do something truly great 22 March 2010
Ukraine Peace Corps Volunteer writes: Liver - My One True Nemesis...
Ukraine Peace Corps Volunteer writes: Liver - My One True Nemesis 22 March 2010
Correspondence between Ira RPCV Joel Hettger and Ambassador. L. Bruce...
Correspondence between Ira RPCV Joel Hettger and Ambassador. L. Bruce Laingen during the Iran Hostage Crisis is now available in the Manuscript Division of the Library of Congress 23 March 2010
Peace Corps Volunteer "Peace (Corps) Out " writes: This March 12th...
Peace Corps Volunteer "Peace (Corps) Out " writes: This March 12th marked the one year anniversary of the death of Peace Corps Benin Volunteer Kate Puzey 25 March 2010
Chief of Staff encourages PCVs to serve third year
William Stacy Rhodes, Peace Corps Chief of Staff says the Peace Corps now encourages volunteers to serve a third year 29 March 2010
Peace Corps Volunteer Philip Armstrong Detained for Questioning in the...
Peace Corps Volunteer Philip Armstrong Detained for Questioning in the Gambia 29 March 2010
Ethiopia RPCV Carl Reeder named Fellow at Colorado State University...
Ethiopia RPCV Carl Reeder named Fellow at Colorado State University Center for Collaborative Conservation 30 March 2010
Be Part Of New Film About The Peace Corps
Be Part Of New Film About The Peace Corps by Sierra Leone RPCV Allen Mondell 30 March 2010
Peace Corps volunteers in Guyanatold their task is no ‘cake...
Peace Corps volunteers in Guyanatold their task is no ‘cake walk’ 31 March 2010
