Jamie Rayman's parents were both Peace Corps workers in Malaysia - now she is a volunteer in Ghana
Our Peace Corps Connection
Perry is proud to be a participant in the Peace Corps' World Wise Schools Program. This program connects an active Peace Corps worker with a school in the United States. Through an exchange of letters, pictures, etc. the program serves a number of purposes including (a) giving students an expanded knowledge of a particular place in the world, (b) an awareness of the role of the Peace Corps in making our world a better place, and (c) helping to provide an American connection to the Peace Corps volunteer who is serving his or her country so far from home.
http://www.peacecorps.gov/wws/index.html
Here is our Peace Corps Volunteer, Jamie Rayman working with a fufu pounder. You can see boiled cassava and plantain in the green bowl to her right. These are pounded with a little water to make fufu. Ghanaians love it! It's sort of like eating bread dough or big lumps of mashed potatoes.
Our Peace Corps volunteer is Miss Jamie Rayman of State College, Pennsylvania. Both her parents were Peace Corps workers in Malaysia years ago. Jamie is a 1999 graduate of Penn State University where she was on the honor roll every semester. She is stationed in Axim, a coastal town in the western region of Ghana. Our second grade students study Africa in detail (and can name and locate every country in Africa by the end of the school year), so they are really excited to have someone to write to on that continent.
PERRY SCHOOL CELEBRATES INTERNATIONAL PEACE CORPS DAY EACH YEAR WITH VISITS FROM FORMER PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEERS FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. THEY SHARE NOT ONLY THEIR EXCITING EXPERIENCES, BUT HOW IMPORTANT IT IS FOR AMERICANS TO HELP OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
AMY RUMBEL
PERRY SCHOOL'S PEACE CORPS VOLUNTEER
2001-2002
We now have a new Peace Corps Volunteer, Miss Amy Rumbel who is a 1996 graduate of Penn State with a degree in Health & Human Development with a focus on working with children and adolescents. Many people when they here the term "Happy Valley" immediately think of Penn State. By coincidence, Amy is stationed not far from another "Happy Valley" near Nairobi, Kenya in East Africa.
Amy is living with the Kalejin tribe, or more specifically, the Kipsigis sub-tribe. She has been given a local tribal name, "Chepkemoi", which has to do with the time of day she was born. The Kipsigis are very warn and friendly people who literally welcomed Amy with open arms.
Amy writes us on a regular basis to share her exciting experiences.
Our Peace Corps Volunteer, Amy Rumbel, pictured above as she progressed from a baby
to a beautiful young woman.
Two good friends of mine that work in a cafe. I go to the cafe most mornings and drink "chai"-tea.
A friend of mine and her son!
A lion = "Simba" at the Masai Mara
Any schools interested in applying to participate in the Peace Corps' World Wise Schools Program should write to:
World Wise Schools Program
Peace Corps Headquarters
1111 20th Street, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20036
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