February 2, 2005: Headlines: COS - Thailand: Tsunami: Des Moines: Thailand RPCV Scott McNabb will volunteer for reconstruction efforts at Ban Gang Muang and Bang Bang Sak elementary schools
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February 2, 2005: Headlines: COS - Thailand: Tsunami: Des Moines: Thailand RPCV Scott McNabb will volunteer for reconstruction efforts at Ban Gang Muang and Bang Bang Sak elementary schools
Thailand RPCV Scott McNabb will volunteer for reconstruction efforts at Ban Gang Muang and Bang Bang Sak elementary schools
Thailand RPCV Scott McNabb will volunteer for reconstruction efforts at Ban Gang Muang and Bang Bang Sak elementary schools
Professor will help rebuild Thailand school
An education professor from the University of Iowa who was in Thailand when the tsunami struck there in December will return to the country next month to help rebuild a school.
Scott McNabb was staying in a small bungalow with his family on Thailand's eastern coast when the tsunami slammed into the western side of the peninsula Dec. 26. Although he felt a tremor, he didn't know what happened until he saw it on television, the U of I reported.
McNabb had been a Peace Corps volunteer in Thailand and has made many return visits. He'll volunteer for reconstruction efforts at Ban Gang Muang and Bang Bang Sak elementary schools.
Paul Greenbough, U of I professor of history and global studies who was in Sri Lanka, will speak along with McNabb about the tsunami's social, political and psychological ramifications tonight at 7 in Meeting Room A of the Iowa City Public Library.
When this story was posted in January 2005, this was on the front page of PCOL:
| RPCVs mobilize support for Countries of Service RPCV Groups mobilize to support their Countries of Service. Over 200 RPCVS have already applied to the Crisis Corps to provide Tsunami Recovery aid, RPCVs have written a letter urging President Bush and Congress to aid Democracy in Ukraine, and RPCVs are writing NBC about a recent episode of the "West Wing" and asking them to get their facts right about Turkey. |
| Ask Not As our country prepares for the inauguration of a President, we remember one of the greatest speeches of the 20th century and how his words inspired us. "And so, my fellow Americans: 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." |
| Latest: RPCVs and Peace Corps provide aid Peace Corps made an appeal last week to all Thailand RPCV's to consider serving again through the Crisis Corps and more than 30 RPCVs have responded so far. RPCVs: Read what an RPCV-led NGO is doing about the crisis an how one RPCV is headed for Sri Lanka to help a nation he grew to love. Question: Is Crisis Corps going to send RPCVs to India, Indonesia and nine other countries that need help? |
| The World's Broken Promise to our Children Former Director Carol Bellamy, now head of Unicef, says that the appalling conditions endured today by half the world's children speak to a broken promise. Too many governments are doing worse than neglecting children -- they are making deliberate, informed choices that hurt children. Read her op-ed and Unicef's report on the State of the World's Children 2005. |
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