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Archive for April, 2007

Building Friendships One Person at a Time

(via peacecorps.gov)Ask nearly all Peace Corps Volunteers to describe their experience, and they’ll undoubtedly share stories about the local people they met in their ...

Looking South

(via economist.com)A pontoon ferry putters on demand across the Takutu river not far from the small border towns of Lethem in Guyana and Bomfim in ...

Andrew Brandou’s Jonestown paintings

(via BoingBoing.net)Andrew Brandou has a new show of paintings opening tomorrow night (4/14/07) at the Corey Helford gallery in Culver City, CA. The exhibition, titled ...

U.S. Peace Corps Volunteer Missing

(via HuffingtonPost.com)The Philippine police and military are searching for a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer missing for nearly a week in a mountainous northern area, officials ...

RPCVs and Non-Competitive Eligibility

Return Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs), upon successful completion of their service, are told that they have “non-competitive eligibility” for federal jobs. Yet when they apply ...

Doctors Without Borders

An RPCV from Guyana, now working with MSF (Medical Sans Frontiers), sent me this link, describing a typical day on the job.9:00 AM: Amina, 15 ...