The Peace Corps wiki has posted Peace Corps departures by month as obtained through a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request. This should be used as a guide only as: During those years a specific country/assignment may have moved to a different month to begin staging 2008 was partially available, up to September, but was [...]
(via portfolio.com) Guyana has unveiled a $40 million bridge that connects the South American country to Venezuela. The government anticipates the half-mile Berbice River Bridge will increase trade and tourism between the two countries. It also is expected to ease traffic headed east toward Suriname and French Guiana. The bridge eliminates an up to three-hour [...]
We’re Marching! RPCVs to Take Part in the Inaugural Parade Now is your chance to be a part of history! The Returned Peace Corps Community has been selected from among groups around the country to march in the Presidential Inaugural Parade on January 20, 2009. A total of 200 marchers will carry flags and banners [...]
(via peacecorps.gov) Peace Corps Director Ronald A. Tschetter today unveiled the V2 volunteerism initiative, with a Volunteerism Action Guide designed to support host country volunteerism overseas. The V2 Action Guide will help Peace Corps Volunteers motivate and inspire host country communities to engage in more service activities. “In America, we have a wonderful culture of [...]
(via stabroeknews.com/news) Participants at a ‘Forum for Men’ last Thursday were urged to aggressively pursue initiatives that will stamp out gender-based violence in the Guyanese society. Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security, Trevor Thomas said that “Our challenge is not to passively condemn but to aggressively pursue initiatives that can [...]
http://feeds.feedburner.com/npnews The other day I ran across AllTop.com’s nonprofit page section, which is a huge list of popular nonprofit blogs, and thought it would be fun to find the most interesting stories from those feeds. So, I extracted the rss feeds from most of the sites listed (not all, some of the links were dead) [...]
(via bbc.co.uk) I first met Otisha, a tall Afro-Guyanese transvestite prostitute in 2003 when I reported on HIV and Aids in Guyana and Barbados. Otisha says Aids awareness has increased in Guyana Back then, the Caribbean had the second highest rate of infection in the world. The prevalence among female sex workers in Guyana was [...]
(via unv.org) International Volunteer Day (IVD) is a chance for volunteer-involving organizations and individual volunteers to promote their contributions to development at local, national and international levels. By merging UN support with a grassroots mandate, IVD is a unique opportunity for volunteer-involving organizations to work with government agencies, non-profit organizations, community groups and the private [...]
World AIDS Day (December 1st) is marked as a day in which people and organizations from around the world share information about and bring attention to HIV and AIDS. 2008 marks the 20th anniversary of World AIDS Day. For information on World AIDS Day…  http://www.worldaidscampaign.org/static/en/ News about World AIDS Day in Guyana (http://www.kaieteurnews.com/?p=16607) World AIDS Day [...]
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