1981: Patrick Welch served in Sierra Leone in Mongo Bendugu beginning in 1981



Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Patrick Welch can be contacted at pw2aonemaindcom

Country of Service: Sierra Leone

Training Group: Health and Rural Development

Cities you served in: Mongo Bendugu

Arrival Year: 1981

Departure Year: 1984

Work Description: Coordinated Rural Development Projects

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

I am have completed a Peace Corps Fellows program at Illinois State
University, 12/15/01, with a Masters degree in Political Science.

I have also worked in both Zaire and the (Former) Republic of Georgia, doing
refugee relief and rural development work.

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

I loved my Peace Corps experience

Any message for returned volunteers?:

Move through any "reverse cross-cultural shock" that you may experience,
as quickly as possible; get right back into the main-stream of life!

Originally posted: January 16, 2002

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