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• This University Sent The Most Students To The Peace Corps

  
  The Kept-Up Academic Librarian — Authority: 120
  For the second straight year, the University of Colorado ranked No. 1 in the nation for graduates serving as Peace Corps volunteers. Currently, 112 undergraduate alumni are serving around the world, the Peace Corps announced today. CUs Boulder campus is ranked the No. 5 all-time school for volunteers with 2,317 alumni ...
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• La Vie en Brusse

  
  Kumpulmi ay Nemnem — Authority: 79
  Things Ive done in the past 4 weeks: 1) eaten snake, antelope, hare and porcupine. I draw the line at chat tigre (apparently a tiger cat) and monkey. It was a bit unexpected and a little shocking when someone showed me a monkey head that was part of a carcass being prepared for dinner. 2) not see another American. ...
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• Peace Corps uses TeachAIDS to educate special needs children in Guyana

  
  The TeachAIDS Blog — Authority: 89
  United States Peace Corps Volunteers in Guyana used TeachAIDS to expose educators to pedagogical techniques and promote learning among children with special needs, including those who are blind, deaf, physically handicapped, and have behavioral issues. Peace Corps volunteers used the TeachAIDS software as part of ...
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• US Peace Corps back in Nepal

  
  4unews — Authority: 147
  KATMANDU, Nepal – The U.S. Embassy in Katamandu says Peace Corps volunteers will return to Nepal seven years after they left during the peak of a Maoist rebel insurgency. Wednesday’s embassy statement says the first group of about 20 volunteers is scheduled to arrive in Nepal later this year. They will be trained ...
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• Those we lost in 2011

  
  Paternal Prose — Authority: 146
  *** denotes local notable deaths *** Cookie Gilchrist, 75 A native of Brackenridge, Gilchrist was a standout fullback in high school who went on to a successful career in the Canadian Football League followed by stints with the Buffalo Bills, N.Y. Jets and San Diego Chargers. JAN. 10 A Pittsburgh native, ...
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• Someone’s Son

  
  Alyssa Brennan's Blog — Authority: 79
  I was headed east to Donetsk, Ukraine by train from Kiev. It was late May, and it had not been a particularly good month for me. I was confused about my teaching role at the Institute, my apartment was crawling with roaches and I was growing tired of wearing a skirt and heels everyday in order to fit in with the ...
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• Year of Projects: Crochet Master Class – Interview with Crochet Master, Carol Ventura

  
  Underground Crafter: Needlecrafts, handmade creativity, and other good stuff — Authority: 107
  (This post is part of my Year of Projects :  Crochet Master Class series.  You can find my other posts in this series here .) I’m really excited today to share an interview with Dr. Carol Ventura, the tapestry crochet master featured in Crochet Master Class .  I can’t think of another ...
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• Honduras Agonistes: Peace Corps Pull-Out, No West Point Water Project Participation

  
  WaterWired — Authority: 110
  Received some bad news the other day. No students will be accompanying me to Honduras this summer to work on a village water system. I have been working with some good folks at West Point - yes, that West Point - involving a project my foundation, the Ann Campana Judge...
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• Nepal Seeks to Overcome Its Past to Seize Its Future

  
  The Asia Pacific Reporting Blog — Authority: 97
  After a decade of civil war, Nepal is finally starting to move forward as a regional player in South Asia. But first, the country will need to redress deep ideological, ethnic, and caste-based social cleavages which have long-divided its society. I therefore was grateful for the opportunity to sit down for an ...
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• Upsala couple returns from two years Peace Corps service in Jordan

  
  HometownSource Blogs — Authority: 131
  Dan and Marlene Hovland of Upsala have recently returned home from two years in the Peace Corps. Their time abroad was spent in Jordan, a Middle Eastern country, which is landlocked except for its very southern tip which is on the Gulf of Aqaba, an arm of the Red Sea. Jordan lies on the east bank of the River Jordan, ...
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• Does Peace Corps Matter? Reflections 40 Years Later

  
  What Do I know? — Authority: 116
  Some time last year the head of Friends of Thailand (a group of former Peace Corps Volunteers) emailed members of Thai 19 (the 19th group of Peace Corps Volunteers to go to Thailand) to ask for something written to go into a book for the 50th Anniversary of Peace Corps Thailand in 2012. I volunteered.  It took a ...
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• Peace Corps Diary: Ethiopia 1962-1964 Part 4

  
  Foreign Affairs Journal — Authority: 118
  Seventh Grade Gardens September 21, 1962 The “Gondar 12”, Madelyn Engvall, Jack Prebis, Charlie Callahan, Frank Mason, Andrea Wright, Patricia Martin-Jenkins, Peggy and John Davis, Martin Benjamin, John Stockton, Dallas Smith and I, arrived on the flight from Addis. Gondar is in the historic, traditional and ...
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