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January 19, 2005: Headlines: COS - Niger: Awards: Secondary Education: Mitchell County Press News: Niger RPCV Joe Marley was selected by the Alaska Association of Secondary School Principals to be the 2004 Small School Principal of the Year 01/21 10:31pm [1]
January 5, 2004: Headlines: COS - Niger: Institute of Peace: USIP: Daniel Chirot was a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger from 1964 to 1966 01/16 03:04pm [1]
January 9, 2005: Headlines: COS - Niger: Wildlife: Giraffes: Philadelphia Enquirer: Lauren E. Caister, an American who studied the Niger giraffes for two years in the late '90s as a Peace Corps volunteer, says "if the giraffe herd increases, and they run into more encounters with farmers, I think it will lead to more poaching." 01/06 05:58pm [3]
December 16, 2004: Headlines: COS - Niger: Columbus This Week Newspapers: John Cannon seeks funds for well project in Niger 01/01 08:07pm [1]
November 8, 2004: Headlines: COS - Niger: Davis Enterprise: Jules Keane in Niger 11/29 03:59am [1]
November 28, 2004: Headlines: COS - Niger: Wonders: Chicago Tribune: RPCV Heather Hogan says the cliffs outside of Filingue, Niger.are a natural wonder 11/29 03:59am [1]
September 3, 2004: Headlines: COS - Niger: Music: Macon Telegraph: Lindsay Rust who first encountered the Afropop group Mamar Kassey as a Peace Corps volunteer living in Niger in the late '90s is now their agent 09/03 11:48pm [1]
July 1, 2004: Headlines: COS - Niger: Medicine: Physician Assistant: Portland Press Herald: Michael P. Toppe first traveled to Africa as a Peace Corps volunteer in Niger, West Africa, and says his experience there greatly influenced his decision to become a physician assistant 08/09 10:39am [2]
May 11, 2004: Headlines: COS - Niger: World Wise Schools: Manchester Union Leader: Becky Horan has lived with the Zerma tribe in Kousa Labu as a member of the Peace Corps 05/12 04:43pm [1]
May 8, 2004: Headlines: COS - Niger: PCVs in the Field - Niger: Personal Web Site: Peace Corps Volunteer Leigh Josey in Niger 03/11 04:37pm [3]
April 29, 2004: Headlines: COS - Niger: Chicago Suburban Newspapers: Maija Kroeger left a North Side Chicago apartment and a successful 10-year career as a copywriter at an advertising agency for the stifling heat and poverty of Niger in West Africa 05/09 05:23pm [1]
January 1, 2003: Headlines: COS - Niger: Medicine: Awards: Hotchkiss: RPCV Kimberly Jones-Rudolph served in the Peace Corps, working to save the lives of starving and malnourished children in Niger 05/09 05:18pm [1]
May 4, 2004: Headlines: COS - Niger: Agriculture: Extension: Horticulture: Cicadas: Washington Post: Tom Tyler, who started his Extension career while serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Niger immediately after college, is an expert on cicadas 05/07 04:35pm [1]
April 7, 2004 - All Africa: Peace Corps Togo and Niger Country Director C. Payne Lucas Joins AllAfrica 04/07 06:28pm [1]
April 5, 2004 - The Hibbing Daily Tribune: Char Novak packed her clothes, left her home and joined the Peace Corps and would eventually land in Bani Bangou, Niger 04/06 06:13pm [1]
March 27, 2004 - Baltimore Sun : Niger RPCV Kathleen Jesencky dies in Baltimore 03/29 09:38am [1]
March 4, 2004 - Fillmore County Journal: Niger RPCV Lee Pool writes about Peace Corps Volunteers 03/09 02:34am [1]
February 17, 2004 - South Bend Tribune: Two years ago, Char Novak cashed in everything, sold her house (in Minnesota) and quit her job of 20 years as an assistant administrator for a medical clinic to join the Peace Corps and go to Niger 02/24 06:01pm [1]
February 17, 2004 - South Band Tribune: Two years ago, Char cashed in everything, sold her house (in Minnesota) and quit her job of 20 years as an assistant administrator for a medical clinic to join the Peace Corps in Niger 02/17 08:46pm [1]
December 1, 2003 - Washington Times: RPCV William Niles returns to Niger 01/04 09:47pm [1]
May 12, 1997 - Dayton Daily News: RPCVs remember Peace Corps Volunteer Jeremiah Mack who died while serving in Niger in May, 1997 at Age 26 12/25 11:12am [1]
August 31, 1995 - Dayton Daily News: RPCVs remember Peace Corps Volunteer Jeffery Orton who died while serving in Niger in August, 1995 at Age 24 12/25 11:11am [1]
February 22, 1984 - Dayton Daily News: RPCVs remember Peace Corps Volunteer Mark A. Streb who died while serving in Niger in February, 1984 at Age 23 12/25 11:10am [1]
December 24, 1983 - Dayton Daily News: RPCVs remember Peace Corps Volunteer Mark T Estrand who died while serving in Niger in December, 1983 at Age 27 12/25 11:10am [1]
September 11, 1973 - Dayton Daily News: RPCVs remember Peace Corps Volunteer Linda Robinson who died while serving in Niger in September, 1973 at Age 24 12/25 11:09am [1]
December 17, 2003 - Personal Web Site: Niger RPCV Laura Bacon to speak at library 12/18 10:01am [1]
November 13, 2003 - Cleveland Plain Dealer: Niger RPCV Elizabeth Porter dies in Oakland 11/13 11:26pm [1]
TAPOA & AYEROU 10/17 12:30pm [1]
July 19, 2003 - Daily Hampshire Gazette: Niger RPCV Robert J. Ryan benefits Hatfield museum 07/20 09:38am [1]
June 18, 2003 - NJ.com: Niger RPCV Erica Phillips farms using organic practices 07/15 06:35am [1]
July 7, 2003 - Enid News: Casie Brook Valtr is heading to Niger in Peace Corps 07/11 11:20am [1]
June 21, 2003 - Personal Web Site: Artist Biography of Niger RPCV Lindsay Rust 06/21 05:25pm [1]
December 4, 1998 - Personal Web Site: Description of Service of PCV Lindsay Rust 06/21 05:23pm [1]
June 21, 2003 - Personal Web Site: Niger RPCV Lindsey Rust is Mask Artist 06/21 05:21pm [1]
January 6 - Hartford Courant: The Roommate 01/12 12:03pm [1]
Letter from Niger: J. R. Bullington on compassionate conservatism & the Peace Corps, volunteer training, a future in plastic, and more 02/01 02:29pm [1]
Peace Corps Assignment: Niger 07/05 08:04am [1]
Riding the Demon : On the Road in West Africa 06/04 03:34pm [3]
Alix Fedoruk's Niger Page 06/01 06:19pm [2]
I met quite a few Peace Corps volunteers during my stay and many of them asked "So are you going to join the Peace Corps and come to Niger?" 07/05 08:00am [1]
Bill Stein's Photographs from Niger (Peace Corps/Niger,1990 to 1993.) 07/05 07:55am [1]
A Peace Corps honeymoon in Niger 07/05 07:52am [1]
Krissa in Peace Corps/Niger 11/30 05:34pm [2]
Peace Corps Programs in Niger 07/05 07:48am [1]
This mailing list group is maintained for the benefit of family members and friends of Peace Corps Volunteers serving in the Republic of Niger. 03/04 11:48am [2]
Volunteers working as Secondary English Teachers in Niger 02/28 04:55am [4]
July 24, 1998 - MUNDELEIN NEW: Peace Corps intern lightened load at village in Niger 09/10 03:40pm [2]
July 5, 2001 - Personal Web Page: Anna and I both served in the Peace Corps in Niger, West Africa 02/16 07:50pm [1]
July 5, 2001 - Personal Web Page: Welcome to The Niger Peace Corps Experience of Helen Steele 01/17 11:22am [3]
July 5, 2001 - Personal Web Page: Peace Corps Volunteer in Niger by Jason Hahn ’99 02/16 07:42pm [1]
July 5, 2001 - Personal Web Page: Zarma Dictionary developed by Peace Corps, Niger 02/16 07:40pm [1]
July 30, 2002 - The Christian Science Monitor: Niger RPCV Pearl Robinson teaches African issues 08/01 04:00pm [1]
July 30, 2002 - Hunt Hill Audubon Sanctuary: Niger RPCVs recommend Hunt Hill Audubon Sanctuary in Northern Wisconsin for RPCV Reunions 08/01 03:48pm [1]
July 25, 2002 - Friends of Niger: The Niger AIDS Education Bike Ride 08/01 03:28pm [1]
2007.01.04: January 4, 2007: Headlines: COS - Niger: Enid News & Eagle: Casie Valtr was a Peace Corps volunteer beginning in 2003 for nearly three years in the village of Nuama, Niger, located in western Africa and one of the poorest countries in the world 03/10 07:07am [1]
2006.12.24: December 24, 2006: Headlines: COS - Niger: Crime: Islamic Issues: Kuwait: Law: St. Louis Post Dispatch: Niger RPCV Sherrie Daniel faces trial in Kuwait 06/10 10:25am [2]
2006.12.31: December 31, 2006: Headlines: COS - Niger: Sports: Football: Akron Beacon Journal: Niger RPCV Debbie Johnson quit her job and has spent the past five years as the OSU football "team mom" -- a role she says has become her true passion 03/04 06:49am [1]
2006.12.30: December 30, 2006: Headlines: COS - Niger: Obituaries: The Cincinnati Enquirer: Husband remembers Niger RPCV Mary Ann Hobson 01/05 08:24am [1]
2006.11.16: November 16, 2006: Headlines: COS - Niger: The Ithacan Online: When she moved to Niger with the Peace Corps, Kate Cocks ’00 could only talk about food, fish and why she wasn’t married — because those were the only words she knew 12/07 10:35am [1]
2006.12.03: December 3, 2006: Headlines: COS - Niger: Environment: Diversity: Minority Volunteers: Post Gazette: Barbara Bertrand is heading off to Niger to teach environmental conservation 12/07 10:34am [1]
2006.12.03: December 3, 2006: Headlines: COS - Niger: Writing - Niger: The Spokesman-Review: Niger RPCV Peter Chilson writes "Riding the Demon: On the Road in West Africa" 12/07 10:32am [1]
2006.06.27: June 27, 2006: Headlines: COS - Niger: Blogs - Niger: Personal Web Site: Niger Peace Corps Volunteer writes: There is a strange feeling I get when I come out of the bush and spend large amounts of time in Niamey 12/07 10:31am [1]
2006.10.29: October 29, 2006: Headlines: COS - Niger: Blogs - Niger: Personal Web Site: Niger Peace Corps Volunteer Sarah Pharr writes: 1 down... 23 to go 12/07 10:30am [1]
2006.09.27: September 27, 2006: Headlines: COS - Niger: COS - Cameroon: Hospitals: Medicine: AIDS: The Criterion: Dr. Ellen Einterz (RPCV Niger) fights AIDS crisis in Cameroon 11/02 09:27am [1]
2006.02.01: February 1, 2006: HeadlineS: COS - Niger: Country Directors - Niger: Character: American Diplomacy: Niger Country director Jim Bullington says: The Peace Corps builds Character 08/06 11:27am [1]
2006.07.18: July 18, 2006: Headlines: COS - Niger: Obituaries: The Cincinnati Enquirer: Obituary for Niger RPCV Mary Ann Hobson 07/18 09:56am [1]
2006.02.01: February 1, 2006: Headlines: COS - Niger: Country Directors - Niger: Development: American Diplomacy: Niger Country director Jim Bullington says: Development is not charity 07/12 09:30am [1]
2006.02.01: February 1, 2006: Headlines: COS - Niger: Country Directors - Niger: American Diplomacy: Jim Bullington retires as Country Director for Niger 07/02 11:11pm [1]
2005.07.19: July 19, 2005: Headlines: COS - Niger: Application Process: Personal Web Site: Niger Peace Corps Volunteer Natalie Beck writes: The Peace Corps Application Process Timeline 06/27 09:25am [1]
2006.05.23: May 23, 2006: Headlines: COS - Niger: Oklahoma Daily: Meredith Crow is scheduled to leave for Niger to work as a nurse’s assistant in the maternal ward of a rural health clinic 06/06 10:13am [1]
2006.05.23: May 23, 2006: Headlines: COS - Niger: Law: Service: St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Niger RPCV Marie Kenyon, is managing attorney for the Legal Assistance Ministry of Catholic Charities 06/03 12:07pm [1]
2006.05.17: May 17, 2006: Headlines: COS - Niger: Seattle Post Inteiligencer: Emile Ross chose to volunteer for the Peace Corps, using her language skills in Niger, a former French colony in West Africa and one of the poorest nations in the world 05/29 09:57am [1]
2006.05.10: May 10, 2006: Headlines: COS - Niger: Return to our Country of Service - Niger: Service: Medicine: Mount Shasta Herald: Emergency room doctor Jack Saunders recently returned to the African country of Niger, nearly 40 years after he served there in the Peace Corps from 1966-69 05/18 09:50pm [1]
2004.09.24: September 24, 2004: Headlines: COS - Niger: University Administration: Freedom of Speech: Iraq: Wildcat: Niger RPCV David Gibbs speaks to women's group on ‘Hidden U.S. Policy' toward Iraq 05/05 12:13am [2]
2006.04.22: April 22, 2006: Headlines: COS - Niger: Happiness: South Whidbey Record : Anna Petersons has worked in the small village in the Balleyara area of Niger for the past two years sponsoring garden projects for women and children 04/22 10:16pm [1]
2006.04.19: April 19, 2006: Headlines: COS - Niger: Ethnobotany: Botany: Biology: Science: Tufts Daily: Niger RPCV Jocelyn Muller studies ethnobotany, which she described as "the study of how people use plants" 04/19 08:38pm [1]
January 1, 2006: Headlines: COS - Burkina Faso: COS - Niger: Antioch Review: Niger RPCV William F. S. Miles writes: I have been enchanted with the Hausa since living among them and studying their language for two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in the former French colony of Niger 02/24 04:50pm [1]
December 15, 2005: Headlines: COS - Niger: Sun-News of the Northland: Croix Thompson is assigned by the Peace Corp to a village about 200 miles outside of Niamey, Niger 12/16 09:59am [1]
December 2, 2005: Headlines: COS - Niger: Washington Post: I have a son with the Peace Corps in Niger. I'd like to visit him with a friend, so we will be two women traveling alone. Do you have suggestions about safety, transportation, tours and how much we can cover in two weeks? 12/05 11:23am [1]
November 25, 2005: Headlines: COS - Niger: Popluation Control: Famine: HIV: AIDS: Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Niger RPCV Darolyn Gibb Vogel says: Hunger is Africa's natural disaster 11/24 11:40pm [1]
October 14, 2005: Headlines: COS - Niger: Law: Wisbusiness.com: Niger RPCV Grant Sovern Joins Quarles & Brady's Immigration Law Practice in Madison 10/20 08:59am [1]
September 22, 2005: Events: Headlines: COS - Niger: Art: University of Massachusetts: RPCV Gretchen Beck, associate professor of art and director of the art department at Concordia University in Irvine, California, will exhibit her drawings based on the degradation of the Nigerian landscape, the Djarma and Fulani cultures and the art forms made by the Nigerian people 10/13 11:48pm [1]
October 4, 2005: Events: Headlines: COS - Niger: Art: he Massachusetts Daily Collegian: Niger RPCV Gretchen Beck exhibtion "Torridity" depicts the trees that give life and parables to the impoverished people of southwestern Niger 10/13 11:47pm [1]
September 20, 2005: Headlines: COS - Niger: Law: Hurricane Relief: Honolulu Advertiser: Niger RPCV Sarah Stevenson is one of 13 displaced first-year law students from Louisiana who accepted internships sponsored by Hawai'i attorneys 10/04 09:15am [1]
September 22, 2005: Headlines: COS - Niger: Service: Fund Raising: Billings Outpost: Denise Roth Barber says "As a former Peace Corps volunteer in Niger (1990-1992), I am appealing to anyone who can to please make a donation to any of the several aid organizations currently in Niger." 10/04 09:13am [1]
September 22, 2005: Headlines: COS - Niger: Service: Fund Raising: Photography - Niger: Corvallis Gazette Times: RPCV Ruth DeMaio's photos of food relief in Niger available online 10/04 09:11am [1]
September 2, 2005: Headlines: COS - Niger: COS - South Africa: Agriculture: Cassava: Biotechnology: Biogenetics: St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Mauritania RPCV Lawrence Kent says cassava can feed Africa and has leafy, virus-resistant plants ready to give away. But no one in Africa is taking them 10/25 04:33pm [2]
August 25, 2005: Headlines: COS - Niger: Fund Raising: Hikeathon: Bangor Daily News: Niger RPCV Jessica Bulloch organizes Hikeathon to benefit victims of Niger famine 08/31 01:37pm [1]
August 18, 2005: Headlines: COS - Niger: Service: Corvallis Gazette Times: Ruth DeMaio to send aid to Niger, land of her Peace Corps service 08/30 11:59am [2]
August 4, 2005: Headlines: COS - Ngier: Blogs - Niger: Reading: Personal Web Site: Peace Corps Volunteer Drew Schmenner in Niger: For all Peace Corps Volunteers, reading is a serious vocation 08/07 04:12pm [1]
July 31, 2005: Headlines: COS - Niger: Hunger: Food: Relief: Times Argus: RPCV Randy Brown writes that Niger crisis demands agressive international intervention 08/07 04:10pm [1]
July 12, 2005: Headlines: COS - Niger: Muscatine Journal : Stephanie Munday of Muscatine is embarking on her mission with the Peace Corps to the country of Niger, Africa 07/17 05:00pm [1]
July 16, 2005: Headlines: COS - Niger: Partnerhsips: Santa Cruz Sentinel: Karl Hedstrom’s $4,000 Peace Corps project in Tondi Fou, Niger, is fully funded, thanks to local donors in Santa Cruz, California 07/17 04:58pm [1]
June 1, 2005: Headlines: COS - Niger: Writing - Niger: Booklist Publications: Paul Stoller's Gallery Bundu: In 1969, almost by chance, David, a young, draft-dodging, beer-swilling Peace Corps worker, absorbs the beauty of West Africa and learns to appreciate its land and its rich cultural heritage 07/17 04:58pm [2]
July 1, 2005: Headlines: COS - Niger: Country directors - Niger: Hunger: Food: Friends of Niger: Niger Country Director Jim Bullington writes: Food Crisis in Niger 08/26 08:33am [3]
March 23, 2005: Headlines: COS - Niger: Green Valley News: Jill Rhodes lives in the West African country of Niger and is working with the hospital in the city of Maradi to establish an HIV counseling center 06/26 02:54pm [1]
January 1, 2004: Headlines: COS - Niger: Hunger: Food for Peace: AIARD: Niger RPCV Susan Bradley is Lead Program Analyst, Emergency Programs Division, Office of Food for Peace, DCHA, USAID 06/26 02:52pm [1]
June 13, 2005: Headlines: COS - Niger: Santa Cruz Sentinel: Karl Hedstrom had a job lined up as a physicist after graduating from Pomona College three years ago. But when the job offer vanished in the high-tech bust, he decided to enter the Peace Corps and go to Niger 06/24 11:18pm [1]
June 22, 2005: Headlines: COS - Niger: Cooking: Chicken: Deleware Online: Alvin Turner lived in Niger, French West Africa, when he was in the Peace Corps. It was during that time that the licensed psychologist, now a Wilmington resident, learned to cook hearty and nutritious meals that sometimes made him want to relax on his own couch. 06/24 11:27am [1]
May 1, 2005: Headlines: COS - Niger: Banking: America's Community Banker: When Bob Cocks' daughter Kate Cocks first joined the Peace Corps and went to Niger in August 2003, he knew she would be making a difference for people in a third- world country. What the president and chief executive officer of Putnam Savings Bank in Putnam, Conn., didn't know was the role he and the bank would end up playing 05/28 01:25pm [1]
May 22, 2005: Headlines: COS - Niger: Marriage: New York Times: Emily Anne Fishbein and Patrick Phillip Johnson were married in Washington. They met in January 2000, while beginning a stint in Niger in the Peace Corps. They became friends during their three-month orientation with 40 other volunteers in the city of Hamdallaye, Niger. 05/25 03:01pm [1]
April 26, 2005: Headlines: COS - Niger: World Wise Schools: Santa Cruz Sentinel: Judy Hedstrom's class has been communicating with Karl Hedstrom, Judy's son, who is in the Peace Corps in Niger in West Africa 04/29 01:55pm [1]
February 21, 2005: Headlines: COS - Niger: Secondary Education: West High School: On his 30th birthday, Mark Andrews sold all of his possessions and joined Peace Corps, spending the next 2.5 years in a small village in Niger 02/26 06:43pm [1]