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Jamie Rayman's parents were both Peace Corps workers in Malaysia - now she is a volunteer in Ghana
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.