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An eight-week training program is now underway at Northern Illinois University in De Kalb for 41. Volunteers aiming for assignments in Malaya - From The Volunteer Newsletter November 1961
The project resulted from conversations between officials of the Federation of Malaya and Sargent Shriver, Director of the Peace Corps. It is geared to that country's second five-year plan (1961-65) which needs middle-level technicians to insure its success.
An eight-week training program is now underway at Northern Illinois University in De Kalb for 41. Volunteers aiming for assignments in Malaya - From The Volunteer Newsletter November 1961
MALAYA
NORTHERN ILLINOIS U.
An eight-week training program is now underway at Northern Illinois University in De Kalb for 41. Volunteers aiming for assignments in Malaya.
This project will deal wilh health, education and rural development. About 25 of the Volunteers will be nurses and laboratory technicians who will work in district hospitals. The rest will serve as teachers of physics, chemistry, biology and mathematics; as apprenticeship instructors of technical trades: as rural development workers helping to build roads and to analyze soils.
The project resulted from conversations between officials of the Federation of Malaya and Sargent Shriver, Director of the Peace Corps. It is geared to that country's second five-year plan (1961-65) which needs middle-level technicians to insure its success.
Director Shriver cited Northern Illinois University as an ideal choice for the training center because of its geographical location and its expanding program in Malayan studies.
Training began October 1.6 and will conclude December 1.5. Candidates selected for service abroad will receive about two weeks home leave, then proceed to Malaya. They will receive four more weeks of intensive training there-mostly in the Malay language -before beginning their assignments.
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Peace Corps Annual Report: 1961; Peace Corps Malaysia; Directory of Malaysia RPCVs; Messages and Announcements for Malaysia RPCVs; The 1960's
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