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Jo Rogers, 71, spent two years in Moldova with Peace Corps
Jo Rogers, 71, spent two years in Moldova with Peace Corps
Oregon Catholic woman spends two years in Moldova with Peace Corps
By Catholic News Service
PACIFIC CITY, Ore. (CNS) -- Jo Rogers, 71, spent two of her golden years working 5,000 miles from home in a poverty-stricken former Soviet republic strewn with pesticides and still polluted from the nuclear explosion at nearby Chernobyl, Ukraine. She'd do it again too. As a Peace Corps volunteer in Moldova during 2001-2003, the member of St. Joseph Mission in the small Oregon coast town of Cloverdale worked with elderly people who get almost no social support in the small nation. Until recently, Moldova was a land without even a soup kitchen. Rogers, a great-grandmother and veteran social worker, marshaled a network of Moldovan visiting nurses and linked them to older people in need. She paved the way for seniors to attend clinics and other service outlets. In the midst of it all, she also made friends and learned the value of a simple life.
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