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Cameroon RPCV Madeline Mader named New Country Director for Ghana
Cameroon RPCV Madeline Mader named New Country Director for Ghana
Nine New Country Directors Assume Responsibility
WASHINGTON, D.C., August 6, 2004 – Nine new country directors will be taking the helm this month following a swearing-in ceremony today at the Paul D. Coverdell Peace Corps Headquarters. Seven of the country directors are new or returning to the Peace Corps, and two are being promoted from within the agency. The new country directors will be going to countries in the Peace Corps’ three regions across the globe – the Africa region, the Europe, Mediterranean, and Asia region, and the Inter-America and the Pacific region.
Peace Corps country directors are responsible for management and direction of all aspects of the Peace Corps program in their country of assignment. The country directors support volunteers in the field. They lend their skills and energy to meet development needs and promote a better understanding between the host country people and Americans.
The new country director assignments are as follows:
Africa Region
Ghana - Madeline Mader
Prior to her post in Ghana, Madeline Mader was employed as program director for Citizens of Oregon’s Future from 2002-2004. From 1999 to 2003, Mader was program director, managing all operations of the innovative Kelly Community House in the Southeast Portland area. She was a Peace Corps pre-service training consultant in Mauritania (1990), Chad (1991) and Togo (1992). Mader served as associate Peace Corps director for education and health/water and sanitation in Ghana from 1993 to 1995, and as associate Peace Corps director for small enterprise development, micro-finance and primary education in Uganda from 1995 to 1998. She served as an education Peace Corps volunteer in Cameroon from 1984 to 1986. Mader holds a bachelor’s degree with honors in Political Science from Denison University and a master’s degree in international affairs/African studies from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies in Washington, D.C. Mader is fluent in French.