• 1966: Mary Jane Hood Weidenbach served in Nigeria in Kabba, Idah, Yola, Kaduna, Oturkpo, beginning in 1966  Sunday, February 05, 2006 - 9:17 am [1]

1966: Mary Jane Hood Weidenbach served in Nigeria in Kabba, Kaduna, Oturkpo, Idah, Yola beginning in 1966



Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Mary Jane Hood Weidenbach can be contacted at merchainaaoldcom

Country of Service: Nigeria

Training Group: TISEP (Unsure of the # 23? 33?)

Cities you served in: Kabba, Kaduna, Oturkpo, Idah, Yola

Arrival Year: 1966

Departure Year: 1968

Work Description: Teaching Adult Education to Grade School Teachers

Bring us up to date on your life after the peace corps:

Married another PCV (Edward Weidenbach)toward end of tour. Returned to
settle in Detroit area where we raised three children. Eventually returned to
school for my Masters in Social Work and for the past 15 years have worked
with survivors of domestic and sexual violence.

Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?:

Pivotal and defining experience in my life

Originally posted: November 13, 2001

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