May 25, 2005: Headlines: COS - Swaziland: Recruitment: The Montana Standard: Jana Barnes has accepted a two-year assignment with the Peace Corps to serve as a health education volunteer in Swaziland
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May 25, 2005: Headlines: COS - Swaziland: Recruitment: The Montana Standard: Jana Barnes has accepted a two-year assignment with the Peace Corps to serve as a health education volunteer in Swaziland
Jana Barnes has accepted a two-year assignment with the Peace Corps to serve as a health education volunteer in Swaziland
Jana Barnes has accepted a two-year assignment with the Peace Corps to serve as a health education volunteer in Swaziland
Dillon resident joins Peace Corps; headed to Swaziland
The Montana Standard
Butte, Mont.
May 25, 2005
Dillon resident Jana Barnes has accepted a two-year assignment with the Peace Corps to serve as a health education volunteer in Swaziland.
She is the daughter of Tom and Cindy Barnes of Dillon.
In her assignment, Barnes will be working with host country national to fight the KIV/AIDS pandemic in Swaziland, where as of 2002, 38.6 percent of the adult population is HIV positive. Her work will focus on educating youth about HIV and its prevention and establishing extra curricular activities to reduce exposure to HIV. She leaves the United States for training in June.
Barnes is a 1999 graduate of Beaverhead County High School.
While in high school, she was in the Family Career and Community Leaders of America, the Honor Society and the Community Youth Initiative. She went on to earn a bachelor's degree in biology from Boise State University, where she was a member of the Honors College.
"I have always wanted to live and work abroad," Barnes describes her motivation to join Peace Corps. "Peace Corps provided the perfect opportunity for me to put my skills and my knowledge of human biology to use in a place where there is a great need." Since 1961, more than 178,000 Americans have joined the Peace Corps, serving in 138 nations around the world. Currently, more that 7,700 Peace Corps volunteers are working in 72 countries around the world in such diverse fields as education, health and HIV/AIDS education, information technology, business development, the environment and agriculture.
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Story Source: The Montana Standard
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