February 4, 2005: Headlines: COS - Swaziland: Country directors - Swaziland: Staff: Appointments: Peace Corps: Twelve New Country Directors Sworn In to Serve: Swaziland – Patricia Austin
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February 4, 2005: Headlines: COS - Swaziland: Country directors - Swaziland: Staff: Appointments: Peace Corps: Twelve New Country Directors Sworn In to Serve: Swaziland – Patricia Austin
Twelve New Country Directors Sworn In to Serve: Swaziland – Patricia Austin
Twelve New Country Directors Sworn In to Serve: Swaziland – Patricia Austin
Twelve New Country Directors Sworn In to Serve
WASHINGTON, D.C., February 4, 2005 – Twelve new country directors took office today, after completing their month-long training at Peace Corps headquarters. Many of the newly sworn in country directors are new, some are returning to the Peace Corps, and four are being promoted from within the agency. The new country directors will be going to countries throughout the Peace Corps’ three regions: the Africa Region, the Europe, Mediterranean, and Asia Region (EMA), and the Inter-America and Pacific Region (IAP).
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 to promote a better understanding between the host country people and Americans.
The new country director assignments are as follows:
Swaziland – Patricia Austin
Patricia (Pattie) Austin is returning to Peace Corps service and Sub-Saharan Africa after a seven year absence. Austin was a Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi from 1995 to 1997, where she worked with the Ministry of Health to improve the nursing and administrative services at Lilongwe Central Hospital. Following her tour in the Peace Corps, Austin did project work in photojournalism in Washington, D.C. Her professional life began as a registered nurse with a BSN from Cornell University. After completing her master’s degree from Columbia University, she became the Assistant of Nursing at Bridgeport Hospital in Connecticut, and later Director of Nursing at the Wilmer Institute at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Following her nursing career, Austin completed pilot training in Dallas, Texas, and became an airline pilot. She piloted for Air Midwest out of St. Louis International and for United Airlines based at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport.
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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