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The Peace Corps for Cooks
Angela Sagabaen relocated to New Orleans after her March 2007 trip with Culinary Corps, and is now working as a test kitchen chef at Emeril’s Homebase. She reflects upon her experiences: “I did my deed and felt good about my volunteering efforts, which I hadn’t felt in a long time working with other organizations or in restaurants. I worked hard and got little sleep, but I also laughed and played hard. And in the end, I think that is the point of [CulinaryCorps]…to not only help your fellow man, but to create warm and meaningful relationships during the process that not only makes another person’s world brighter, but yours as well.” Angela Sagabaen relocated to New Orleans after her March 2007 trip with Culinary Corps, and is now working as a test kitchen chef at E... more
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National Service for everyone-Obama looking at expanding service oppurtunities
According to Obama's campaign, the service plan will include:
# Expanding AmeriCorps to 250,000 slots and doubling the size of the Peace Corps;
# Integrating service-learning programs into schools and universities
# Providing new service opportunities for working Americans and retirees;
# Expanding service initiatives that "engage disadvantaged young people and advance their education";
# Expanding the capacity of nonprofit groups to innovate and expand successful programs across the country; and
# Enabling more Americans to serve in the armed forces
"This won't be a call issued in one speech or one program -- I want this to be a central cause of my presidency," Obama said in a speech at the University of Colorado in Colorado Springs.
"We will ask Americans to serve. We will create new opportunities for Americans to serve. And we will direct that service to our most pressing national challenges." According to Obama's campaign, the service plan will include: ... more -
National Volunteer Week
President George W. Bush met today with 33 Peace Corps Volunteers at a special White House send-off event in honor of the 2008 National Volunteer Week. “The President has been an ardent supporter of the Peace Corps, not only by supporting the agency’s largest budget in history, but also through his personal touch in meeting with individual Volunteers when he travels.
Since 1961, more than 190,000 Volunteers have helped promote a better understanding between Americans and the people of the 139 countries
Forty-seven years ago, President John F. Kennedy in the Rose Garden sent the first team of Peace Corps Volunteers to Africa.
Peace Corps service is a 27-month commitment. To learn more about the Peace Corps, please visit our website: www.peacecorps.gov. President George W. Bush met today with 33 Peace Corps Volunteers at a special White House send-off event in honor of the 2008 Nation... more -
Vivid Dreams
After years of yearning to go to Africa, Joan’s three-month stint as a Peace Corps volunteer turns sour on Christmas Eve when she is 'psychevac'd' back to the states and admitted to Georgetown Hospital mental ward. The drug required by the Peace Corps to be taken as a protection against malaria is said to cause only vivid dreams, but no one mentions the other side effects of psychotic tendencies, including suicide and murder. After years of yearning to go to Africa, Joan’s three-month stint as a Peace Corps volunteer turns sour on Christmas Eve when she is '... more
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Peace Corps Looks for Older Volunteers
WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 The Peace Corps is asking older Americans who might have heard President John F. Kennedys call to service more than 40 years ago to heed his request.
Though older recruits are nothing new to the Peace Corps, it recently began an initiative to entice people age 50 or older into joining at a time when many of them are stepping away from a career and into the great unknown of retirement. WASHINGTON, Nov. 23 The Peace Corps is asking older Americans who might have heard President John F. Kennedys call to service more t... more -
Peace corps workers forbidden to talk about condoms
Peace corps workers a forbidden by the U.S. government to tell African children about condoms
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