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Voices from the Peace Corps - Fifty Years of Kentucky Volunteers (Hardcover)
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Voices from the Peace Corps - Fifty Years of Kentucky Volunteers (Hardcover)
Series: Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History Series
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President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps on March 1,
1961. In the fifty years since, nearly 200,000 Americans have
served in 139 countries, providing technical assistance, promoting
a better understanding of American culture, and bringing the world
back to the United States. In Voices from the Peace Corps: Fifty
Years of Kentucky Volunteers, Angene Wilson and Jack Wilson, who
served in Liberia from 1962 to 1964, follow the experiences of
volunteers as they make the decision to join, attend training,
adjust to living overseas and the job, make friends, and eventually
return home to serve in their communities. They also describe how
the volunteers made a difference in their host countries and how
they became citizens of the world for the rest of their lives.
Among many others, the interviewees include a physics teacher who
served in Nigeria in 1961, a smallpox vaccinator who arrived in
Afghanistan in 1969, a nineteen-year-old Mexican American who
worked in an agricultural program in Guatemala in the 1970s, a
builder of schools and relationships who served in Gabon from 1989
to 1992, and a retired office administrator who taught business in
Ukraine from 2000 to 2002. Voices from the Peace Corps emphasizes
the value of practical idealism in building meaningful cultural
connections that span the globe.
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