2011.03.30: March 30, 2011: Lynn and Phil Lilienthal served as married volunteers, from September 1965 to August 1967, in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa
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2011.03.30: March 30, 2011: Lynn and Phil Lilienthal served as married volunteers, from September 1965 to August 1967, in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa
Lynn and Phil Lilienthal served as married volunteers, from September 1965 to August 1967, in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa
As a volunteer, Phil Lilienthal, now 70, worked as part of a legal team put together by an American adviser to Emperor Haile Selassie, who would be in power for another nine years. One of his first jobs was working with the Ministry of the Interior to set up a "New Town," similar to Reston. Lynn Lilienthal did social work at a mental hospital, taught English at a home for juvenile delinquents and worked at a home, supported by two of Selassie's granddaughters, for poor handicapped children. Phil Lilienthal also helped create Ethiopia's first sleepaway summer camp at Lake Langano, one of the three lakes in the Ethiopian part of the Rift Valley. The camp primarily served inner city boys from Addis Ababa.
Lynn and Phil Lilienthal served as married volunteers, from September 1965 to August 1967, in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa
Area Peace Corps veterans to celebrate 50-year anniversary
by Janet Rems | Special to The Times
[Excerpt]
In Ethiopia
Longtime Reston residents Lynn and Phil Lilienthal served as married volunteers, from September 1965 to August 1967, in the Ethiopian capital of Addis Ababa.
Their oldest son was born there in February 1967. And their youngest son was born in the Philippines, where Phil Liliethnal served as the Peace Corps regional director for Mindanao. The couple also lived for a year in Thailand, where Phil worked as a Peace Corps deputy director.
As a volunteer, Phil Lilienthal, now 70, worked as part of a legal team put together by an American adviser to Emperor Haile Selassie, who would be in power for another nine years. One of his first jobs was working with the Ministry of the Interior to set up a "New Town," similar to Reston.
Lynn Lilienthal did social work at a mental hospital, taught English at a home for juvenile delinquents and worked at a home, supported by two of Selassie's granddaughters, for poor handicapped children.
Phil Lilienthal also helped create Ethiopia's first sleepaway summer camp at Lake Langano, one of the three lakes in the Ethiopian part of the Rift Valley. The camp primarily served inner city boys from Addis Ababa.
Forty years later -- inspired in part by that earlier experience and the prestigious camp in Maine owned by his family -- he founded Global Camps Africa, which has been helping children with HIV/AIDS at its nonprofit Camp Sizanani in South Africa since 2004.
"It was quite an experience," said Lynn Lilienthal.
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