1989: Jill Gatwood served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Jamaica in Port Antonio beginning in 1989



Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Jill Gatwood can be contacted at jillgatagmaildcom

Country of Service: Jamaica

Training Group: 52

Cities you served in: Port Antonio

Arrival Year: 1989

Departure Year: 1991

Work Description:

Health Educator in the Portland parish

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

HIV Epidemiologist. Son Nigel, adopted in Jamaica as a newborn baby, is now 18 and just voted for the next president of the US! Byron is still teaching middle school.

Any thoughts you have now looking back on peace corps days?:

Still in touch with friends in Port Antonio, including our godson Talmie and our friend Collette, who was 11 years old then and now married with a child in Kingston.




Originally posted: 11/7/2008

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