March 5, 2005: Headlines: COS - Philippines: Northern Virginia Daily: Tommy Schultz, 29, a volunteer in the Philippines, was motivated to join the Peace Corps because he wanted to explore faraway places that most Americans would never have the chance to visit.
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March 5, 2005: Headlines: COS - Philippines: Northern Virginia Daily: Tommy Schultz, 29, a volunteer in the Philippines, was motivated to join the Peace Corps because he wanted to explore faraway places that most Americans would never have the chance to visit.
Tommy Schultz, 29, a volunteer in the Philippines, was motivated to join the Peace Corps because he wanted to explore faraway places that most Americans would never have the chance to visit.
Tommy Schultz, 29, a volunteer in the Philippines, was motivated to join the Peace Corps because he wanted to explore faraway places that most Americans would never have the chance to visit.
Volunteers help others improve lives
By Jonathon Shacat
Northern Virginia Daily
March 5, 2005
Going halfway around the world to help people in developing countries for two years is tough.
Friends and family are left behind. Modern day comforts become virtually nonexistent. The climate can be unbearable. Foods are entirely different. Language barriers are a challenge to overcome. And, adapting to new cultures and customs can be demanding.
But for four people from the Northern Shenandoah Valley, the sacrifice is worthwhile. Working as Peace Corps volunteers, they are sharing their knowledge and skills to help improve the lives of others across the world.
Tommy Schultz, of Winchester, is a community development worker in the Philippines; Carrie Wallinger, of Mt. Jackson, is teaching English as a foreign language in Mongolia; Paul Negley, of Winchester, is working in hygiene, sanitation and disease control in Morocco; and Nicholas Heltzel, of Maurertown, is an organizational and community development specialist in the Kyrgyz Republic.
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Schultz, 29, a volunteer in the Philippines, was motivated to join the Peace Corps because he wanted to explore faraway places that most Americans would never have the chance to visit. He shares his Peace Corps experience with people back home via his Web site (www.tommyschultz.com). In his free time, he takes his camera underwater to capture some of the country's pristine reefs. The Web site features photos of "colorful clownfish, shimmering schools of jacks, a few toothy moray eels and more."
"Simply said, life in the Philippines is good. Maybe all you've heard about the country are the stories about terrorists, or the devastating natural disasters. These stories make the international news, but the day-to-day reality of life here is quite different," he says on the site. "If you hop on a transcontinental flight for a visit in person, you'll find the people are very friendly, life moves at a slower pace, and every week there is a fiesta or colorful celebration somewhere if you look."
When this story was posted in March 2005, this was on the front page of PCOL:
| The Peace Corps Library Peace Corps Online is proud to announce that the Peace Corps Library is now available online. With over 30,000 index entries in over 500 categories, this is the largest collection of Peace Corps related reference material in the world. From Acting to Zucchini, you can use the Main Index to find hundreds of stories about RPCVs who have your same interests, who served in your Country of Service, or who serve in your state. |
| RPCVs in Congress ask colleagues to support PC RPCVs Sam Farr, Chris Shays, Thomas Petri, James Walsh, and Mike Honda have asked their colleagues in Congress to add their names to a letter they have written to the House Foreign Operations Subcommittee, asking for full funding of $345 M for the Peace Corps in 2006. As a follow-on to Peace Corps week, please read the letter and call your Representative in Congress and ask him or her to add their name to the letter. |
| March 1: National Day of Action Tuesday, March 1, is the NPCA's National Day of Action. Please call your Senators and ask them to support the President's proposed $27 Million budget increase for the Peace Corps for FY2006 and ask them to oppose the elimination of Perkins loans that benefit Peace Corps volunteers from low-income backgrounds. Follow this link for step-by-step information on how to make your calls. Then take our poll and leave feedback on how the calls went. |
| Coates Redmon, Peace Corps Chronicler Coates Redmon, a staffer in Sargent Shriver's Peace Corps, died February 22 in Washington, DC. Her book "Come as You Are" is considered to be one of the finest (and most entertaining) recountings of the birth of the Peace Corps and how it was literally thrown together in a matter of weeks. If you want to know what it felt like to be young and idealistic in the 1960's, get an out-of-print copy. We honor her memory. |
| Make a call for the Peace Corps PCOL is a strong supporter of the NPCA's National Day of Action and encourages every RPCV to spend ten minutes on Tuesday, March 1 making a call to your Representatives and ask them to support President Bush's budget proposal of $345 Million to expand the Peace Corps. Take our Poll: Click here to take our poll. We'll send out a reminder and have more details early next week. |
| Peace Corps Calendar: Tempest in a Teapot? Bulgarian writer Ognyan Georgiev has written a story which has made the front page of the newspaper "Telegraf" criticizing the photo selection for his country in the 2005 "Peace Corps Calendar" published by RPCVs of Madison, Wisconsin. RPCV Betsy Sergeant Snow, who submitted the photograph for the calendar, has published her reply. Read the stories and leave your comments. |
| WWII participants became RPCVs Read about two RPCVs who participated in World War II in very different ways long before there was a Peace Corps. Retired Rear Adm. Francis J. Thomas (RPCV Fiji), a decorated hero of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, died Friday, Jan. 21, 2005 at 100. Mary Smeltzer (RPCV Botswana), 89, followed her Japanese students into WWII internment camps. We honor both RPCVs for their service. |
| Bush's FY06 Budget for the Peace Corps The White House is proposing $345 Million for the Peace Corps for FY06 - a $27.7 Million (8.7%) increase that would allow at least two new posts and maintain the existing number of volunteers at approximately 7,700. Bush's 2002 proposal to double the Peace Corps to 14,000 volunteers appears to have been forgotten. The proposed budget still needs to be approved by Congress. |
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