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Peace Corps Writers is seeking submissions for new book "Letters Home from the Peace Corps" Peace Corps Writers (www.PeaceCorpsWriters.org) has agreed to edit and publish a collection of correspondence of Peace Corps Volunteers as part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps. Letters Home from the Peace Corps will be one way for Peace Corps Writers to preserve the history of the Peace Corps. Your letters and emails to family and friends are treasured documents that must be saved because they offer valuable insight into the experience we all shared. Your personal correspondence tells a story, and with this book, we hope to preserve your story as expressed in your own words for posterity, and we ask you to share them with us. Peace Corps Writers is seeking submissions for new book "Letters Home from the Peace Corps" Your submissions are requested for the book Letters Home from the Peace Corps Peace Corps Writers (www.PeaceCorpsWriters.org) has agreed to edit and publish a collection of correspondence of Peace Corps Volunteers as part of the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps. Letters Home from the Peace Corps will be one way for Peace Corps Writers to preserve the history of the Peace Corps. Your letters and emails to family and friends are treasured documents that must be saved because they offer valuable insight into the experience we all shared. Your personal correspondence tells a story, and with this book, we hope to preserve your story as expressed in your own words for posterity, and we ask you to share them with us. While we prefer to see previously unpublished material, letters and/or emails that have already appeared in local newspapers, self-published books, and/or family web sites are all acceptable. Selecting your correspondence for submission In selecting a letter or email to be considered for publication in the book, we ask that you choose it thus: Would a reader find the letter intriguing? . . . dramatic? . . . humorous? . . . historic? . . . insightful? If you can answer yes to one of these questions, please send it. We will select the very best letters that tell the story through the eyes of PCVs and Staff of the Peace Corps since its beginnings in 1961. Your letters can be about any aspect of the Peace Corps experience: Making the Decision to Join, Training, Peace Corps Service, Friends, HCNs, Family Visits, After the Peace Corps, Life as an RPCV, Returning to the Host Country. Send us no more than three of your best letters or emails. Select the letter(s) that have the most meaning to you; that tell a story you want to tell. Mail us your correspondence for the first round of selection by June 1, 2007. For letter(s): Send a legible photocopy or typed transcript. Do not send originals. We cannot return anything sent to us. (If we have trouble reading your handwriting, your letter will not be considered for publication.) Send to: Marian Haley Beil 4 Lodge Pole Road Pittsford, New York 14534 For email(s):Send to: jpcoyne@peacecorpswriters.org Put in the subject line: Letters Home From the Peace Corps Please include for either letters or emails: Information about yourself or the PCV/RPCV or staff member who wrote the letter (e.g., where and when he or she served, and any other important personal and/or background information). Your phone number. Your email address. Your mailing address. We look forward to hearing from you. Marian Haley Beil John Coyne Editors: Letters Home from the Peace Corps
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| All Volunteers Safe in Fiji All Volunteers in Fiji are safe and accounted for. The Peace Corps is monitoring the situation very closely. Volunteers are on standfast but there are no plans for evacuation at this time. Peace Corps is working closely with the US embassy and with host country partners to monitor the situation. Peace Corps is confident that volunteers are not in harm's way. The military seized control of Fiji on December 5 after weeks of threats. Subscribe to our news feed to read the latest breaking news. |
| Ron Tschetter in Morocco and Jordan On his first official trip since being confirmed as Peace Corps Director, Ron Tschetter (shown at left with PCV Tia Tucker) is on a ten day trip to Morocco and Jordan. Traveling with his wife (Both are RPCVs.), Tschetter met with volunteers in Morocco working in environment, youth development, health, and small business development. He began his trip to Jordan by meeting with His Majesty King Abdullah II and Her Majesty Queen Rania Al Abdullah and discussed expanding the program there in the near future. |
| Chris Dodd's Vision for the Peace Corps Senator Chris Dodd (RPCV Dominican Republic) spoke at the ceremony for this year's Shriver Award and elaborated on issues he raised at Ron Tschetter's hearings. Dodd plans to introduce legislation that may include: setting aside a portion of Peace Corps' budget as seed money for demonstration projects and third goal activities (after adjusting the annual budget upward to accommodate the added expense), more volunteer input into Peace Corps operations, removing medical, healthcare and tax impediments that discourage older volunteers, providing more transparency in the medical screening and appeals process, a more comprehensive health safety net for recently-returned volunteers, and authorizing volunteers to accept, under certain circumstances, private donations to support their development projects. He plans to circulate draft legislation for review to members of the Peace Corps community and welcomes RPCV comments. |
| He served with honor One year ago, Staff Sgt. Robert J. Paul (RPCV Kenya) carried on an ongoing dialog on this website on the military and the peace corps and his role as a member of a Civil Affairs Team in Iraq and Afghanistan. We have just received a report that Sargeant Paul has been killed by a car bomb in Kabul. Words cannot express our feeling of loss for this tremendous injury to the entire RPCV community. Most of us didn't know him personally but we knew him from his words. Our thoughts go out to his family and friends. He was one of ours and he served with honor. |
| Peace Corps' Screening and Medical Clearance The purpose of Peace Corps' screening and medical clearance process is to ensure safe accommodation for applicants and minimize undue risk exposure for volunteers to allow PCVS to complete their service without compromising their entry health status. To further these goals, PCOL has obtained a copy of the Peace Corps Screening Guidelines Manual through the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and has posted it in the "Peace Corps Library." Applicants and Medical Professionals (especially those who have already served as volunteers) are urged to review the guidelines and leave their comments and suggestions. Then read the story of one RPCV's journey through medical screening and his suggestions for changes to the process. |
| The Peace Corps is "fashionable" again The LA Times says that "the Peace Corps is booming again and "It's hard to know exactly what's behind the resurgence." PCOL Comment: Since the founding of the Peace Corps 45 years ago, Americans have answered Kennedy's call: "Ask not what your country can do for you--ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man." Over 182,000 have served. Another 200,000 have applied and been unable to serve because of lack of Congressional funding. The Peace Corps has never gone out of fashion. It's Congress that hasn't been keeping pace. |
| PCOL readership increases 100% Monthly readership on "Peace Corps Online" has increased in the past twelve months to 350,000 visitors - over eleven thousand every day - a 100% increase since this time last year. Thanks again, RPCVs and Friends of the Peace Corps, for making PCOL your source of information for the Peace Corps community. And thanks for supporting the Peace Corps Library and History of the Peace Corps. Stay tuned, the best is yet to come. |
| History of the Peace Corps PCOL is proud to announce that Phase One of the "History of the Peace Corps" is now available online. This installment includes over 5,000 pages of primary source documents from the archives of the Peace Corps including every issue of "Peace Corps News," "Peace Corps Times," "Peace Corps Volunteer," "Action Update," and every annual report of the Peace Corps to Congress since 1961. "Ask Not" is an ongoing project. Read how you can help. | Read the stories and leave your comments.
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