2009.08.10: August 10, 2009: Headlines: COS - Mauritania: Blogs - Mauritania: Safety: Personal Web Site: Peace Corps Volunteer "Look Here for Michele's Updates" writes: Today we found out that due to very real threats to the safety of Westerners in the country, we are suspending the Peace Corps Mauritania Program
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2009.08.10: August 10, 2009: Headlines: COS - Mauritania: Blogs - Mauritania: Safety: Personal Web Site: Peace Corps Volunteer "Look Here for Michele's Updates" writes: Today we found out that due to very real threats to the safety of Westerners in the country, we are suspending the Peace Corps Mauritania Program
Peace Corps Volunteer "Look Here for Michele's Updates" writes: Today we found out that due to very real threats to the safety of Westerners in the country, we are suspending the Peace Corps Mauritania Program
"It has nothing to do with Muslims. Nothing to do with Mauritanians. Nothing to do with the villages we know and love. This is a result of outside influences working in Mauritania, slowly but surely chipping away at some of the naturally loving, united, giving social structure, thus necessitating our removal. Hopefully this is only a temporary removal of the Peace Corps Program."
Peace Corps Volunteer "Look Here for Michele's Updates" writes: Today we found out that due to very real threats to the safety of Westerners in the country, we are suspending the Peace Corps Mauritania Program
Monday, August 10, 2009
Alhamdoulilahi
Caption: Children in Gorgol by Peace Corps Volunteer swimfast. Flickr Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic
If you read my last post you'll know that we were consolidated in Senegal to allow the Washington, DC Security team time to evaluate Mauritania. Today we found out that due to very real threats to the safety of Westerners in the country, we are suspending the Peace Corps Mauritania Program. It has nothing to do with Muslims. Nothing to do with Mauritanians. Nothing to do with the villages we know and love. This is a result of outside influences working in Mauritania, slowly but surely chipping away at some of the naturally loving, united, giving social structure, thus necessitating our removal. Hopefully this is only a temporary removal of the Peace Corps Program.
Every one of us were totally still inside and out as the acting Peace corps Director told us the news, and most of us teared up as we immediately thought of villages, work, families and best friends left behind in our Mauritanian homes. In any case, the 51 of us that have stuck it out to the very last day are grateful for every minute of it. Alhamdoulilahi!
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