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• Looking to Volunteer Again?? 11/30 09:27am [1]

• January 23, 2005: Index: PCOL Exclusive: Service (1 of 2) 11/18 08:53am [10]

• January 23, 2005: Index: PCOL Exclusive: Service (2 of 2) 02/06 08:31pm [1]

• April 7, 2003: Headlines: Service: Bicycles: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Pedals for Progress distributes 62,016 bicycles 01/22 12:02am [1]

• October 2, 2004: Headlines: Service: Atlanta Journal Constitution: 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 10/09 01:12am [1]

• September 17, 2004: Headlines: Service: Bicycles: Deleware Online: 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 10/02 04:05pm [1]

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• Service: Thailand RPCV Thomas Tighe's Direct Relief International holds nonprofit world's first "shareholder" meeting 27 March 2003

• Service: Kenya RPCV Daniel Van Lehman leads effort to resettle hundreds of Somali Bantu refugees 27 March 2003

• Service: Fiji RPCV Stephanie Odegard helps keep child labor from being swept under the rug 26 March 2003

• Service: RPCV Scott Phair works with the BluePack Project to help children in Afghanistan 25 March 2003

• Service: Liberia RPCV Huy Pham setting up a refugee relief project for Iraqi war victims 24 March 2003

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

• Service: Dinner to Honor Sargent Shriver for the National Center on Poverty Law 19 March 2003

• Service: Brazil RPCV Billy Heikkinen: from Peace Corps to military career 19 March 2003

• Service: Malawi RPCV Theroux returns to Africa: Little light in the heart of darkness 19 March 2003

• Service: Pakistan RPCV Bart Duff makes plans to work in Philippines 19 March 2003

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

• Service: An RPCV searches for the past in Thailand (Part 3) 13 March 2003

• Service: Guatemala RPCVs Lora and Pat Whalen embrace microbank project in Honduras 7 March 2003

• Service: Malawi RPCV Paul Theroux at his cranky best returns to Malawi 3 March 2003

• Service: Thailand RPCV Thomas Tighe's DRI to hold Shareholders' Meeting and Symposium 3 March 2003

• Service: An RPCV searches for the past in Thailand 28 February 2003

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

• Service: An RPCV searches for the past in Thailand (Part 2) 28 February 2003

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

• Service: Letter from Thomas Tighe, Direct Relief International President 23 February 2003

• Service: Profile of Thomas Tighe 23 February 2003

• Service: Sierra Leone RPCV Lisa Sechler and her husband Stephen Dolan teach doctors about treatment of AIDS patients in Uganda 23 February 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

• 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

• Service: Thomas Tighe's Direct Relief International is ready if war breaks out 17 February 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

• 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

• Service: Doreen Meyers' noble mission in Mayoyao 17 February 2003

• Service: Going Home to Neijiang: A former Peace Corps volunteer returns to find his Sichuan town transformed 16 February 2003

• Service: Panama RPCV Florence Reed making a difference 10 February 2003

• Service: Drawbacks and benefits of national service 9 February 2003

• Service: Guatemala RPCV Naren Sonpal helps Central American farmers market their coffee 7 February 2003

• Service: RPCV helps Cities in Afghanistan and Nebraska Forge "Sister Cities" Partnership 3 February 2003

• Service: Colombia RPCV John Weldon Scott helps build school in Viet Nam 1 February 2003

• Service: Passback and the Peace Corps in Malawi 1 February 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

• Service: RPCV Lloyd Everson helps family in Guatemala 1 February 2003

• Service: Guatemala RPCV Naren Sonpal helps farmers market their coffee 30 January 2003

• Service: Malawi RPCV Paul Theroux's journey through Africa 30 January 2003

• Service: Sierra Leone RPCV Gerri Preston leads a lifetime of volunteering 29 January 2003

• Service: Zaire RPCV Peter Kittany leads the N.C. Rural Communities Assistance Project 26 January 2003

• Service: RPCV Tom Belsky returns to Brazil (Part II) 26 January 2003

• Service: Honduras RPCV Kathryn Tschiegg founded Central American Medical Outreach 17 January 2003

• Service: Brazil RPCV Sharon Price founds Children in Villages and Faith Association 15 January 2003

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

• Service: RPCV Tom Belsky returns to Brazil 10 January 2003

• Service: PCV found discouragement and disappointment in Zambia 9 January 2003

• Service: Ghana RPCV Trevor Harmon writes about how volunteers with computer and engineering skills can make a difference 6 January 2003

• Service: RPCV David Jaynes returns to Iran on goodwill tour 27 December 2002

• Service: Web Opens World to Digital Volunteers 27 December 2002

• Service: Kazakstan RPCV Dave C. Eastman worked as Aid Worker in Afghanistan 26 December 2002

• Service: Afghanistan RPCVs Norma and Cendric Emory bring medical relief to a war-weary people 20 December 2002

• Service: Brazil RPCV Bob Crites creates "Students helping Street Kids" for South America 19 December 2002

• Service: Kenya RPCVs send computers to Africa 13 December 2002

• Service: Ghana RPCV gives the gift of sight to Nigerian Teacher 9 December 2002

• Service: Returned Volunteers host holiday tour for recent immigrants 8 December 2002

• Service: Civil-Military Program Aims to Win Hearts and Minds in Afghanistan 7 December 2002

• Service: Jimmy Carter credits Peace Corps mother Lillian Carter as inspiration for peace 5 December 2002

• Service: RPCV Gretchen Kafoury makes Eye-opening return trip to Iran 5 December 2002

• Service: RPCVs Bob and Marjorie Leventry sow Seeds of Hope in Ecuador 29 November 2002

• Service: Peace Corps Volunteers renew ties with old friends in Morocco 23 November 2002

• Service: Venezuela RPCV Steve Schilling runs $30M non-profit Clinica Sierra Vista 23 November 2002

• Service: Tanzania RPCV Mike Fay attempts to save a pristine jungle 20 November 2002

• Service: RPCV Rob Saleski returns to Iran 20 November 2002

• Service: NPCA sponsors Bridge-building trip to Iran 8 November 2002

• Service: Reminders of our trip to Iran 2 November 2002

• Service: Solomon Islands RPCV Diane Darr to receive Legacy Award 1 November 2002

• Service: Pakistan RPCV William P. Wolfe is partner in Vermont's Rutland Holiday Inn 1 November 2002

• Service: Ecuador RPCVs Bob and Marjorie Leventry make Quinoa Soup 1 November 2002

• Service: Nepal RPCV James Walsh's Visa Programme provides opportunities for young Northern Irish people 24 October 2002

• Service: Burkina Faso RPCV Lawrence Diggs starts International Vinegar Museum 20 October 2002

• Service: Peru RPCV Richard Muirhead leads Rotary Club that works with Center of Friendship in Arequipa Peru 18 October 2002

• Service: Ghana RPCV Rudy Sovinee teaches children tolerance, peaceful conflict resolution, peer mediation and peace building 17 October 2002

• Service: RPCV Founded Deep Roots aids Namibian Students 15 October 2002

• Service: St. Lucia RPCV Denise Brown worked with deaf 13 October 2002

• Service: David Alvord came on the U.S. Peace Corps' pioneer mission in Korea 13 October 2002

• Service: Harris Wofford pushes student service 13 October 2002

• Service: Ghana RPCV Gregory Poff returns to Ghana 10 October 2002

• Service: Peace Corps Stint Led RPCV Zelda Uttal to Career in AIDS Education 7 October 2002

• Service: Morroco RPCV Sarah Chayes starts aid organization in Afghanistan 7 October 2002

• Service: Sierra Leone RPCV Mike Kelleher teaches future volunteers at ISU Stevenson Center for Community and Economic Development 6 October 2002

• Service: Volunteers wrangle with culture at Illinois State University 6 October 2002

• Service: Malawi RPCV Paul Theroux returns to Malawi 5 October 2002

• Service: RPCV Warner M. Montgomery reports that Squat Johns are now an endangered species in Thailand 3 October 2002

• Service: RPCV Delores returned to Honduras to help 3 October 2002

• Service: Somalia RPCV Kenneth Rutherford injured in explosion joins worldwide campaign to ban land mines 27 September 2002

• Service: Honduras RPCV Mark Sipple guides troubled teens 26 September 2002

• Service: Former Peace Corps Director Carol Bellamy speaks about world's problems and opportunities 26 September 2002

• Service: Venezuela RPCV Joe Jaycox returns to Catia 25 September 2002

• Service: Ecuador RPCV Kathy Stamski is co-director of Fish and Loaves 24 September 2002

• Service: Coastal Carolina Returned Peace Corps Volunteers promote Malian Peanut Sheller 22 September 2002

• Service: Peruvian President Toledo accepts invitation to be Honorary Chairman of Alianza de Amistad 21 September 2002

• Service: RPCV Arnold Wendroff develops Handcart for Malawi 14 September 2002

• Service: Santa Barbara Magazine profiles Direct Relief President Thomas Tighe 13 September 2002

• Service: Mali RPCV Kirsten Gagnaire starts Social Enterprise Group 13 September 2002

• Service: Thailand RPCV Darryl N. Johnson, U.S. Ambassador to Thailand, returns to Lamphun 40 years later 12 September 2002

• Service: Thailand RPCV Saundra Schimmelpfennig works to improve Logan park 9 September 2002

• Service: Guatemala RPCV Gary Burniske to head Mercy Corps in Tajikista 7 September 2002

• Service: Panama RPCV Florence Reed has an impact that's global 6 September 2002

• Service: Guatemala RPCV Jamie Zentner interprets at La Clinica 5 September 2002

• Service: Senegal RPCV Michael McColley returns Senegal 31 August 2002

• Service: Nepal RPCV Jennifer Shrestha formed the Hands of Nepal to sell women's handicrafts 30 August 2002

• Service: Sargent Shriver and the Politics of Life 30 August 2002

• Service: PCV Larry Tremonti bringing books to Romania 24 August 2002

• Service: Starvation looming for 150,000 in Swaziland 22 August 2002

• Service: Panama RPCV Florence Reed: Helping to feed the world 14 August 2002

• Service: Honduras RPCV Ray Mungaray helps people adjust to a life of blindness 7 August 2002

• Service: Africare President Steps Down After 31 Years 27 July 2002

• Service: The Niger AIDS Education Bike Ride 25 July 2002

• Service: Malawi RPCV Kevin Denny featured on NBC Nightly News 25 July 2002

• Service: Thailand RPCV returns to learn Thai Cooking 25 July 2002

• Service: Africare: glimmer of hope in AIDS crisis 15 July 2002

• Service: RPCV Congressman Tony Hall prepares for a new chapter in a life of public service 14 July 2002

• Service: C. Payne Lucas Retires From Africare 12 July 2002

• Service: RPCV Molly Melching helps Senegalese women reclaim their rights 10 July 2002

• Service: Bountiful man's idea created volunteer service organization 8 July 2002

• Service: Kenya RPCV Michael Farlye organizes Great Rift Valley Walkabout to raise funds 5 July 2002

• Service: Ethiopea RPCV Courtney Arnold put words on discs for the blind 5 July 2002

• Service: Service projects offer reward 3 July 2002

• Service: Senegal RPCV works to bring two worlds together 1 July 2002

• Service: Our community project in Guatemala 1 July 2002

• Service: NPCA Award Winner Chakunga Sibale is seeking to raise awareness and funds for children orphaned by AIDS in Malawi 28 June 2002

• Service: A PC Staffer Returns to Afghanistan 19 June 2002

• Service: Direct Relief International and Johnson & Johnson Join to Provide $10 Million in Requested Medical Aid to Afghanistan 7 June 2002

• Service: An RPCV returns to the floating markets of Thailand 5 June 2002

• Service: Swaziland RPCV Reed Hastings founds Netflix, works in education 4 June 2002

• Service: Panama RPCV Florence Reed formed organization to work in Reversing Rainforest Destruction and Poverty in Central America 4 June 2002

• Service: Carol Bellamy - A conversation on children 1 June 2002

• Service: A New Service Ethic 26 May 2002

• Service: Shrivers' Special Olympics goes to China 24 May 2002

• Service: Shrivers' Special Olympics Press Conference 22 May 2002

• Service: African Volunteers to Combat AIDS in Their Own Communities 22 May 2002

• Service: Carol Bellamy - From City Hall to the World's Stage 22 April 2002

• Service: National Service would enrich, help country 22 April 2002

• Service: Pamwe: Service Learning in Africa 19 April 2002

• Service: Deep Roots start new education-oriented NGO in Guatemala 17 April 2002

• Service: Nobel Peace Prize Nomination for the Peace Corps Cites Direct Relief International President Thomas Tighe 9 April 2002

• Service: Friendship reaches across the ocean 1 April 2002

• Service: Big brother and national nanny 13 March 2002

• Service: President Promotes Public Service through Freedom Corps 12 March 2002

• Service: Bush Tour will Promote National Service 4 March 2002

• Service: Citizen Gardner 20 February 2002

• Service: Las Vegan follows his principles, serves in Peace Corps 18 February 2002

• Service: All Together Now - Think national service just means singing Kumbaya? Bush knows better 11 February 2002

• Service: Reply tepid to national service call 11 February 2002

• Service: Mark Gearan - The Promise of Citizen Service 10 February 2002

• Service: You WILL volunteer 7 February 2002

• Service: Hispanic couple receive the Giving is Living Award for their many charitable efforts 7 February 2002

• Service: Colombia RPCV Doug German runs Nebraska's statewide legal-aid law firm 4 February 2002

• Service: AmeriCorps Applications Rise 50 Percent Since State of the Union Address; Bush Hits Road to Promote 4 February 2002

• Service: US Peace Corps awards Franklin H. Williams Awards for Community Service 28 January 2002

• Service: Editorial - The call to serve 14 January 2002

• Service: RPCV Chris Matthews returns to COS South Africa 13 January 2002

• Service: RPCV Steve Schwartz founded Farmlink to help save family farms 7 January 2002

• Service: RPCV Michael Farley supports Makimbo Children's Center 7 January 2002

• Service: Welcome to the Marrakesh Express! 4 January 2002

• Service: Washington RPCVs support the Community Bridge Program 27 December 2001

• Service: "Pedals for Progress" receives Rolex Award 27 December 2001

• Service: Interconnection, weaving a Web of Support Around the Globe 27 December 2001

• Service: PEACE CORPS ALUMNI FOUNDATION FOR PHILIPPINE DEVELOPMENT 27 December 2001

• Service: Former Peace Corps Worker sells Jewelry to Support two Causes 27 December 2001

• Service: RPCV serves as Chaplain to help heal souls at hospital 26 December 2001

• Service: Costa Rica RPCVs support Peace Works 24 December 2001

• Service: Costa Rica RPCVs established the Campanario Biological Reserve 24 December 2001

• Service: Eritrea RPCVs help develop Science Teaching Aids 24 December 2001

• Service: RPCV Raising Money For Afghan Orphans 11 December 2001

• Service: Peace Corps members still give after returning home 9 December 2001

• Service: RPCV Steven Huffstutlar is working in Bolivia running an alternative development program for former coca farmers in the Chapare 3 December 2001

• Service: Morocco RPCV Sarah Chayes spends A Night in the Taliban Kitchen 1 December 2001

• Service: Namibia RPCVs support Deep Roots 26 November 2001

• Service: Waking up to Istanbul - A former Peace Corps volunteer returns to the city of his dreams 26 October 2001

• Service: Speech by Harris Wofford on the History of National Service in America 26 October 2001

• Service: RPCV Jeff Labovitz works in Afghan Relief 25 October 2001

• Service: Return to Ethiopea 21 October 2001

• Service: RPCV Jeff Labovitz works in Afghan Relief 15 October 2001

• Service: Return to Guinea-Bissau 7 August 2001

• Service: Return to Liberia: A Personal Journey 16 July 2001

• Service: Yap: The land of stone money - An emotional Return by a Returned Volunteer 15 July 2001

• Service: This was the same place where I had been a Peace Corps teacher in 1962 6 July 2001

• Service: To alleviate the manpower shortage in rural areas Peace Corps placed several laboratory technologists at Turbah, Mocha, Jibla, Dahmar, Sagayn , Luhayah, and Taiz 5 July 2001

• Service: James Holland served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Medical Technology in Yemen 5 July 2001

• Service: The House There No More. A Former U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer Returns To Chuuk by John W. Perry 4 July 2001

• Service: A little tour of Morroco by Returned Volunteer Richard Alleman 2 July 2001

• Service: Barbara Kapenga served a two-year term as a junior/senior high school English teacher with the Peace Corps in Chad. 2 July 2001

• Service: Then you're not a stranger by Peggy and Philip Brownrigg 1 July 2001

• Service: The Journey and the Photograph 1 July 2001

• Service: Peoplelink - A nonprofit marketplace benefiting grassroots artisans and their communities by a Cameroon RPCV 30 June 2001

• Service: Proyecto Campanario is a conservation initiative begun by a small group of teachers who began their lives in Latin America over 20 years ago with the Peace Corps. 30 June 2001

• Service: Peace Works International (PWI) was designed as an International Youth Service Organization. The original idea of PWI was conceived by Christopher and Heather Kealey and Christopher and Kathleen Bertrand. Together with Randy Haley, they spent two and a half years in the Peace Corps in Costa Rica. 30 June 2001

• Service: Peace Corps Volunteers are well known for their ability to assimilate themselves into foreign cultures 28 June 2001

• Service: Jack Au gives from the heart - Peace Corps volunteer in Philippines 28 June 2001

• Service: The Life and Accomplishments of David S. Kitson 28 June 2001

• Service: Ambassador Brenda Brown Schoonover is a career Foreign Service Officer with the United States Department of State 28 June 2001

• Service: Malaysia will launch its own version of the Peace Corps called Yayasan Salam Malaysia 27 June 2001

• Service: Robert B. Crites, Former Peace Corps Volunteer in Brazil, founds Students Helping Street Kids International 23 June 2001

• Service: Nepalese learn water-testing skill in Macomb 5 June 2001

• Service: Peruvian stands on brink of presidency - and has 2 Tucsonans to thank for it 19 May 2001

• Service: Back to Ecuador - Observations from May 1999 13 May 2001

• Service: Morocco RPCV Sarah Chayes Reports on Life in the Trenches 27 March 2001

• Service: Congresswoman Capps Confers with Direct Relief President Tighe on India Earthquake 26 January 2001

• Service: RPCV Tom McMahon's Journal of a return visit to Bangladesh after 40 years 13 January 2001

• Service: Kenya RPCV John Miskell spent 4 years doing AID work in Somalia 1 July 2000

• Service: Sabre and Peace Corps collaborate on Book Projects in Ukraine 5 May 1999

• Service: An RPCV asks: Can Iran be forgiven? 3 August 1998

• Service: Anne Rooney worked as a JCI nurse-consultant with the Peace Corps’ Office of Medical Services in Washington and traveled to Chad, Kirghizstan, Turkmenistan, and Gabon 1 January 1998