1992: Valerie Lanzi Silvers served in Mali in Koulikoro beginning in 1992



Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Valerie Lanzi Silvers can be contacted at lanzivanetzerodnet

Country of Service: Mali

Training Group: Small Enterprise Development

Cities you served in: Koulikoro

Arrival Year: 1992

Departure Year: 1993

Work Description:

Basic accounting and marketing

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

Have been working with adults with severs and persistant mental illness since 1995. Got MSW from UCal, Berkeley in 2000. Got married and divorced. Am potter and surfer. Just moved from Bolinas, CA to Lawrenceville, NJ.

Anyone you are looking for or would like to hear from?:

All folks from the Love Stage. Especially: Molly Glenn Mbengue, Doretta Gordon, Kathlyn Mackovjack

Any message for returned volunteers?:

I ka kene?

Originally posted: March 6, 2006

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By Ray Lanzi (166.137.11.141) on Sunday, June 26, 2011 - 9:50 pm: Edit Post

Valerie,
Your mother and I miss you . No love can compare to that of a parent for their child ,especially one as special as you. The Peace Corps for you as you well know was a serious mistake even though their mission was well intended there was no support for you,particularly as in your case medically for the volunteers. They also left you unprotected livin alone as a female in a foreign land. We regret not having tried to influence you....at the time it was a commendable vocation. But became a nightmare........your total undoing. Your return to us after serving was that of a different person.

Again we love you and you are always in our thoughts.

Dad