Angie Hunter is teaching soap-making in Ecuador



Angie Hunter is teaching soap-making in Ecuador

Clean living: As Peace Corps volunteer, Hunter is teaching soap-making in Ecuador

Voice-Tribune
September 1, 2004

Soap. It's a necessity in our culture, but in the jungles of Ecuador it's a luxury.

Angie Hunter, a 23-year-old Peace Corps volunteer from Middletown, has been working in the jungle for the past year to make soap available where it was previously unaffordable.

She and another Peace Corps volunteer, Daniel Lapidus of Virginia, founded the Soap Project, a program that has women in the Kichwan villages of Talag and Pano in the Amazon Basin of Ecuador making and selling soap. "It's so hot in this part of the world that the indigenous Kichwan people of our communities do bathe everyday, but they are so poverty stricken, they don't necessarily bathe with soap," said Hunter in an e-mail interview.

When this story was posted in September 2004, here was the front page of PCOL Magazine:

Director Gaddi Vasquez: The PCOL Interview This month we sat down for an extended interview with Peace Corps Director Gaddi Vasquez. Read the entire interview from start to finish and we promise you will learn something about the Peace Corps you didn't know before. Then read the questions and answers one by one and leave your comments on the issues raised during the interview including Infrastructure Upgrades and the new Situation Room at Headquarters, Is there a Budget Crunch this year at Peace Corps, Peace Corps' Long Term Expansion, the Changes to the Five-Year Rule made last year, Safety and Security Issues, the Cooperative Agreement with NPCA, RPCVs in Policy Making Positions at Peace Corps Headquarters, Peace Corps' Departure from Russia in 2002, Director Vasquez's Accomplishments as Director, the Peace Corps Safety and Security Bill before Congress, Continuity at the Agency during Changes in Administration, the Community College Program, and the Director's Message to the Returned Volunteer Community.

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