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Author: Julius A. Amin
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 9780873384506
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Peace Corps was established in 1961 by the Kennedy administration, with the primary goal to help Third World countries while guarding against the expansion of communism. This study analyzes the programme and the performance of its volunteers in Cameroon during the 1960s.
Author: Paul Hamel
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: 2023-08
Total Pages: 0
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn his compelling memoir, "Return to Bafia," Paul J. Hamel takes us on an unforgettable expedition to a remote African town as a Peace Corps volunteer from 1969 to 1972. Far removed from the comforts of modern life, Bafia lacked internet, television, phones, electricity, running water, and paved roads. Hamel's enthralling narrative unveils his remarkable metamorphosis during this time, leaving an enduring impact on his life. Through introspection, Hamel describes his life-altering adventures that continues to shape his perspective even decades later. He delves into the lessons learned: self-reliance, appreciating the little things, selfless giving, and the profound joy of making a positive difference in others' lives. In 2013 Paul returned to Cameroon, accompanied by his sister, Darleen Guien, to witness the changes that have occurred over the past half-century. The contrast between his Peace Corps days and the present adds depth to his reflections. "Return to Bafia" is an inspiring testament to the enduring impact of the Peace Corps experience, igniting the spirit of adventure and encouraging a broader appreciation for diverse cultures. Through Paul's story, readers embark on a journey of self-discovery and the remarkable capacity for positive change within us all.
Author: Leigh Marie Dannhauser
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Published: 2019-11-14
Total Pages: 188
ISBN-13: 9781733354004
DOWNLOAD EBOOKLeigh Marie Dannhauser gets sent to Cameroon to serve as a Peace Corps volunteer. She faces the challenges of adapting to a new way of life while not knowing French or the patois. But she persists, and in the process learns about herself away from American society. This is the story of her time in a village that became her home but is now a memory.
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 4
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Stanley Meisler
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2011-02-22
Total Pages: 300
ISBN-13: 0807095478
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA complete and revealing history of the Peace Corps—in time for its fiftieth anniversary When the World Calls is the first complete and balanced look at the Peace Corps's first fifty years. Stanley Meisler's engaging narrative exposes Washington infighting, presidential influence, and the Volunteers' unique struggles abroad. He deftly unpacks the complicated history with sharp analysis and memorable anecdotes, taking readers on a global trek starting with the historic first contingent of Volunteers to Ghana on August 30, 1961.
Author: Susana Herrera
Publisher: Shambhala Publications
Published: 2000-08-08
Total Pages: 333
ISBN-13: 0834800039
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen the Peace Corps sends Susana Herrera to teach English in northern Cameroon, she yearns to embrace her adopted village and its people, to drink deep from the spirit of Mother Africa—and to forget a bitter childhood and painful past. To the villagers, however, she’s a rich American tourist, a nasara (white person) who has never known pain or want. They stare at her in silence. The children giggle and run away. At first her only confidant is a miraculously communicative lizard. Susana fights back with every ounce of heart and humor she possesses, and slowly begins to make a difference. She ventures out to the village well and learns to carry water on her head. In a classroom crowded to suffocation she finds a way to discipline her students without resorting to the beatings they are used to. She makes ice cream in the scorching heat, and learns how to plant millet and kill chickens. She laughs with the villagers, cries with them, works and prays with them, heals and is helped by them. Village life is hard but magical. Poverty is rampant—yet people sing and share what little they have. The termites that chew up her bed like morning cereal are fried and eaten in their turn ("bite-sized and crunchy like Doritos"). Nobody knows what tomorrow may bring, but even the morning greetings impart a purer sense of being in the moment. Gradually, Susana and the village become part of each other. They will never be the same again.
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 6
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Greg Alder
Publisher: Greg Alder
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 266
ISBN-13: 0988682206
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Kingdom of Lesotho is a mountainous enclave in southern Africa, and like mountain zones throughout the world it is isolated, steeped in tradition, and home to few outsiders. The people, known as Basotho, are respected in the area as the only tribe never to be defeated by European colonizers. Greg Alder arrives in Tsoeneng in 2003 as the village's first foreign resident since 1966. Back then, the Canadian priest who had been living there was robbed and murdered in his quarters. Set up as a Peace Corps teacher at the village's secondary school, Alder finds himself incompetent in so many unexpected ways. How do you keep warm in this place where it snows but there is no electricity? How do you feed yourself where there are no grocery stores let alone restaurants? Tsoeneng is a world apart from his home in America, but Alder persists in adapting. He learns to grow food, he learns to speak the strange local language, and he makes enough friends such that he is eventually invited to participate in initiation rites. Yet even as he seems accepted into the Tsoeneng fold, he sees how much of an outsider he will always remain-and perhaps want to remain. The Mountain School is insightful and candid, at times accepting and at times rebellious. It is the ultimate tale of the transplant.
Author: Kris Holloway
Publisher: Waveland Press
Published: 2006-07-20
Total Pages: 237
ISBN-13: 1478609028
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn a remote corner of West Africa, Monique Dembele saved lives and dispensed hope every day in a place where childbirth is a life-and-death matter. Monique and the Mango Rains is the compelling story of the authors decade-long friendship with Monique, an extraordinary midwife in rural Mali. It is a tale of Moniques unquenchable passion to better the lives of women and children in the face of poverty, unhappy marriages, and endless backbreaking work, as well as her tragic and ironic death. In the course of this deeply personal narrative, as readers immerse in village life and learn firsthand the rhythms of Moniques world, they come to know her as a friend, as a mother, and as an inspired woman who struggled to find her place in a male-dominated world.
Author: Randolph W. Hobler
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Published: 2020-08-28
Total Pages: 444
ISBN-13: 9781716811661
DOWNLOAD EBOOK101 Arabian Tales: How We All Persevered in Peace Corps Libya is substantially set apart from the over-1,000 published Peace Corps memoirs because they are individual memoirs and this is a unique collective memoir, garnered from in-depth interviews with 101 fellow Libyan Returned Peace Corps Volunteers. A herculean effort. The story's spine is Hobler's own narrative, anchored to and deftly embroidered with hundreds of other anecdotes. Rather than a narrow individual view, this collective sharing provides many rich hues and shades of experiences-hilarious, heartbreaking, insightful, poignant, as well as educational and inspiring. These volunteers were spread out over 900 miles resulting in an omniscient kaleidoscope of experiences, many of which fall under the category of "you can't make this up!" It's an amazingly detailed chronicle of anecdotes, historical perspectives, fun, adventure and hardship. Hobler's breezy whimsical style is accessible and entertaining, capped off with 220 compelling photographs. "Randy Hobler has written the best memoir of a Peace Corps experience that I have ever read. His amazingly detailed book instantly grips the reader by putting Libya in its properly rich and unique historical perspective." --Niels Marquardt Ambassador to Equatorial Guinea, Cameroon, Madagascar and the Union of the Comoros Peace Corps Volunteer-Zaire and Rwanda The book is available on Amazon. Lulu and other publishing sites. For more information go to www.101arabiantales.com.
