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- February 3, 2005: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: Tsunami: Fund Raising: Art: Galleries: The Charlotte Observer: Sri Lanka RPCV Allison Hertzler organizes benefit at her Green Rice Designs art gallery Friday, February 04, 2005 - 7:03 pm [2]
- January 27, 2005: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: Tsunami: Daily News: Gaddi H. Vasquez, the Director of the United States Peace Corps is touring Sri Lanka on the feasibility of bringing former volunteers to Sri Lanka to aid in reconstruction Friday, January 28, 2005 - 9:19 pm [1]
- January 23, 2005: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: Tsunami: Utica Observer-Dispatch: Sri Lanka RPCV Amy Neff Roth recalls land that has faced many violent waves Sunday, January 23, 2005 - 5:21 pm [1]
- January 23, 2005: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: Tsunami: Obituaries: Winston-Salem Journal: In memory of Tatta (Papa) David, a tsunami victim by Sri Lanka RPCV Linda Eiler Sunday, January 23, 2005 - 5:21 pm [1]
- December 28, 2004: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: Service: Tsunami: Argus Leader: RPCV Tammie Willcuts flies to Sri Lanka to offer aid Sunday, January 16, 2005 - 2:30 pm [1]
- January 13, 2005: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: People Magazine: Tsunami: Fauquier Citizen: Sri Lanka RPCV Tammie Willcuts' humanitarian work put her in People magazine this week Saturday, January 15, 2005 - 12:25 pm [1]
- January 8, 2004: Headlines: COS - Thailand: COS - Sri Lanka: NGO's: Service: Tsunami: AlertNet: Direct Relief International Medical Suplies arrive in Sri Lanka Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 4:33 pm [1]
- January 2, 2005: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: Tsunami: Directors - Bellamy: United Nations: Unesco: Colombo Page: UNICEF Chief and former Peace Corps director Bellamy in Sri Lanka's tsunami-hit areas Saturday, January 08, 2005 - 10:18 am [1]
- December 30, 2004: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: Columbian: Sri Lanka RPCV Paul Bollinger is executive director of Southwest Washington Medical Center, the region's only free medical clinic Saturday, January 08, 2005 - 9:50 am [1]
- January 6, 2005: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: Tsunami: Fund Raising: Santa Cruz Sentinel: RPCV Kirby Nicol who has friends in tsunami-battered areas of Sri Lanka and Thailand says: "Compassion, in its best form, is done one-on-one" Saturday, January 08, 2005 - 9:49 am [1]
- January 6, 2005: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: Tsunami: Fund Raising: Santa Cruz Sentinel: RPCV Kirby Nicol who has friends in tsunami-battered areas of Sri Lanka and Thailand says: "Compassion, in its best form, is done one-on-one" Friday, January 07, 2005 - 9:38 pm [1]
- January 6, 2005: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: Tsunami: Pittsburgh Tribune-Review: RPCV Jose Ravano directs CARE's efforts in Sri Lanka Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 7:30 pm [1]
- January 6, 2005: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: Service: NGO's: Tsunami: Pittsburgh Post Gazette: RPCV Jose Ravano returns to direct CARE's efforts in Sri Lanka Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 7:29 pm [1]
- January 5, 2005: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: Tsunami: Nashua Telegraph: RPCV Rick Modica saw devastation in Sri Lanka first-hand Thursday, January 06, 2005 - 7:28 pm [1]
- October 26, 2004: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: Writing - Sri Lanka: Literary Traveler: When Joe Kovacs joined the Peace Corps and went to Sri Lanka in 1997, he took a leave of absence from a graduate program in English literature at Fordham University Saturday, November 06, 2004 - 2:37 pm [1]
- January 25, 2004 - Victoria Advocate: John Meitzen, of Port Lavaca was one of the first Peace Corps volunteers in Sri Lanka Sunday, January 25, 2004 - 3:19 pm [1]
- Radio Ceylon mourns the death of President John F.Kennedy Friday, January 16, 2004 - 1:33 pm [1]
- July 1, 196 - : Nepal RPCV Peter Burleigh revisits Sri Lanka Wednesday, April 11, 2007 - 12:55 pm [2]
- Sri Lanka Revisited Saturday, July 07, 2001 - 9:05 am [1]
- July 25, 2002 - State Department: Peace Corps to return to Sri Lanka when conditions permit Thursday, August 01, 2002 - 3:26 pm [1]
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- December 7, 2003 - Personal Web Site: As a member of the first Peace Corps group to come to Sri Lanka, in 1962, I had first been assigned to Dharmaraja College, in Kandy, then to Thurston Friday, January 16, 2004 - 1:37 pm [2]
- December 7, 2003 - Personal Web Site: Ram Alagan was Peace Corps Volunteer in Sri Lanka Tuesday, August 14, 2007 - 2:17 am [4]
- December 7, 2003 - Serendib: The original vision of the Serendib program as it was carried out in 1996 by the Peace Corps and the Ministry of Education was to organize the English Camp at a national level Sunday, December 07, 2003 - 9:34 am [1]
- December 7, 2003 - Makahiki: Vincent Linares developed, implemented ESL training programs and in-service seminars for Peace Corps trainees, volunteers and Sri Lankan ESL teachers Sunday, December 07, 2003 - 9:33 am [1]
- December 7, 2003 - International Gateway: From 1994-1998, Kathleen Corey was Country Director for the Peace Corps in Sri Lanka where she managed a program of 70 volunteers Sunday, December 07, 2003 - 9:26 am [1]
- December 7, 2003 - Personal Web Site: Jan R. Albert taught English as a second language instructor in a small, rural village in Sri Lanka Sunday, December 07, 2003 - 9:24 am [1]
- March 23, 2003 - Sunday Times: Ms. Rocca replied that a security assessment team from the Peace Corps visited Sri Lanka recently and a decision would be taken in this regard when they submit their report. Sunday, December 07, 2003 - 9:20 am [1]
- February 1, 1998 - Sri Lanka Monitor: Peace Corps, serving in the island for many years, may be withdrawn Sunday, December 07, 2003 - 9:16 am [1]
- December 7, 2003 - Personal Web Site: My good friend Kate Leshock had been in Sri Lanka for over two years as a volunteer in the Peace Corps Sunday, December 07, 2003 - 9:14 am [1]
- December 7, 2003 - Sanet: Thailand RPCV Allison Brown later worked for USAID in Sri Lanka (1988-90) and funded a small PRV activity in support of the Sri Lankan plant breeders Sunday, December 07, 2003 - 9:12 am [1]
- December 7, 2003 - Peace Corps: Patrick J. Cunningham served as a Peace Corps small business development volunteer in Sri Lanka from 1991 to 1993 where his work focused on the development of income-generating projects Sunday, December 07, 2003 - 9:09 am [1]
- September 14, 2003 - Island: In the mid sixties the "peace corps" from USA was active in Sri Lanka and one of them coached the "Orients Basketball Club" Friday, September 16, 2005 - 3:08 am [2]
- November 27, 2003 - Clemmons Courier: Sri Lanka RPCV Linda Eiler named president of Forsyth County Returned Peace Corps Volunteers Wednesday, January 12, 2005 - 2:16 pm [2]
- December 7, 2003 - Online Milwaukee: Time for new Toner Sunday, December 07, 2003 - 8:56 am [1]
- December 7, 2003 - University of Georgia Press: A father and son come to know each other within the beauty--and violence--of Sri Lanka by RPCV Jim Toner Sunday, December 07, 2003 - 8:54 am [1]
- December 7, 2003 - Personal Web Site: Reviews of Serendib by Sri Lanka RPCV Jim Toner Sunday, December 07, 2003 - 8:52 am [1]
- September 6, 2003 - Personal Web Site: US Peace Corps assessment team to visit Sri Lanka Sunday, December 07, 2003 - 8:45 am [1]
- November 6, 2003 - Personal Web Site: The Prime Minister also met with the Director of the Peace Corps Gaddi Vasquez, to discuss the re-starting of Peace Corps operations in Sri Lanka later next year. The programme will focus on Information Technology and entrepreneurship training. Sunday, December 07, 2003 - 8:43 am [1]
- 2007.01.12: January 12, 2007: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: Jewish Issues: Jerusalem Post: Sri Lanka RPCV Chava Dagan Dagan gave birth to her three children at home and now home-schools them in a classroom she designed herself Sunday, March 18, 2007 - 9:38 am [1]
- 2006.09.07: September 7, 2006: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: Safety and Security of Volunteers: The Kansan: RPCV Lizette Peter, who volunteered as an English language teacher in Sri Lanka and Ribikani for eight years, has experienced what it’s like to live in an unstable country firsthand Saturday, September 23, 2006 - 11:46 am [1]
- 2006.08.16: August 16, 2006: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: Safety and Security of Volunteers: Peace Corps: Peace Corps closes Crisis Corps program in Sri Lanka Thursday, August 31, 2006 - 3:24 pm [2]
- 2006.05.16: May 16, 2006: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: Asian American Issues: Des Moines Register: Sri Lanka RPCV Kim Poam Logan is president and executive director of the Iowa Asian Alliance Friday, June 23, 2006 - 11:34 am [1]
- March 1, 2006: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: COS - Costa Rica: Married Couples: Asbury Park Press: Lynn Ross went to Sri Lanka in 1984, having been inspired by the artwork of her father, Tom Ross Thursday, March 02, 2006 - 6:20 pm [1]
- September 4, 2005: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: Crisis Corps: Tsunami: Port Huron Times Herald: Mary and Tom Mechtenberg are working with the Crisis Corps in Matara, a city on the southern coast of Sri Lanka Sunday, September 04, 2005 - 12:55 pm [1]
- August 24, 2005: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: Speaking Out: Salem Statesman Journal: RPCV Lloyd Chapman says U.S. can learn from unrest in Sri Lanka Wednesday, August 31, 2005 - 1:36 pm [1]
- July 17, 2005: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: Return to our Country of Service - Sri Lanka: NGO's: Service: Sunday Observer: RPCV Tucker McCravy has been returning to Sri Lanka since 1995 to work with Serendib Sunday, July 17, 2005 - 4:29 pm [1]
- June 29, 2005: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: Tsunami: Crisis Corps: TamilNet: US Peace Corps to assist Sri Lanka tsunami victims Saturday, July 09, 2005 - 5:14 pm [1]
- July 5, 2005: Headlines: COS - Nepal: COS - Sri Lanka: Tsunami: Daily Press: Just one year after returning from a Peace Corps tour of Nepal where he helped the Women Skills Development Project establish a textile industry, Darren Defendeifer stepped off a plane and onto the tsunami-devastated soil of Sri Lanka Tuesday, July 05, 2005 - 10:50 am [1]
- June 24, 2005: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: Tsunami Relief: Older Volunteers: South Bend Tribune: Peace Corps volunteers Tom and Mary Durm Mechtenberg are awaiting their next mission, a Crisis Corps assignment to tsunami-ravaged Sri Lanka. Tom was 74 and Mary 63 when they joined the Peace Corps three years ago. Friday, June 24, 2005 - 11:31 pm [1]
- June 22, 2005: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: Tsunami Relief: Peace Corps: First Group of Volunteers Leave for Sri Lanka to Assist with Post-Tsunami Rebuilding Efforts Wednesday, June 22, 2005 - 9:04 pm [1]
- April 4, 2005: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: Tsunami: Married Couples: The Denver Post: Asanga came to Colorado in 1996 to see Anna Jones, 40, the woman he had met three years earlier in Sri Lanka when she was in the Peace Corps and boarded the wrong train, the woman who would become his wife, Anna Jones Sunday, April 10, 2005 - 12:07 am [1]
- January 1, 1970: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: Art: Ebay: ebay: I acquired this great batik from a woman who was in the Peace Corps in Sri Lanka in the 1970’s Saturday, March 26, 2005 - 2:08 am [1]
- March 18, 2005: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: Tsunami: Service: NGO's : Anchorage Daily News: RPCV Kelly Hurd of the American Red Cross of Alaska, was deployed to Galle, Sri Lanka, to help coordinate distribution of relief supplies to villages affected by the Dec. 26 tsunami in Southeast Asia Monday, September 26, 2005 - 1:23 am [2]
- March 8, 2005: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: COS - Turkmenistan: Tsunami: Sonoma News: Since arriving in eastern Sri Lanka in mid-January, Turkmenistan RPCV Cayenne Smith helped manually move seven tons of rubble and debris from a preschool site where 117 children died in the Dec. 26 tsunami disaster Sunday, March 13, 2005 - 12:43 am [1]
- February 28, 2005: Headlines: COS - Sri Lanka: Tsunami: Crisis Corps: PCOL Exclusive: Crisis Corps to open new program in Sri Lanka Friday, March 04, 2005 - 9:58 pm [1]