Download or read book Adventures in Service with Peace Corps in Niger written by James R. Bullington and published by Booksurge Publishing. This book was released on 2007 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book recounts the adventures and daily lives of Peace Corps Volunteers and their director serving in remote, exotic Niger, the world's poorest country, in 2000-2006.
Download or read book Rogue Elephants A Novel of the Peace Corps written by Dan Grossman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Voices from the Peace Corps written by Angene Hopkins Wilson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2011-04-08 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on more than one hundred oral history interviews, [this title] follows the the experiences of Kentuckians who chose to live and work in other countries around the world, fostering close, lasting relationships with the people they served. -- jacket.
Download or read book PACA written by Peace Corps (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This idea book was designed to give a focused history and description of Participatory Analysis for Community Action (PACA), while sharing excellent examples from the field that illustrate how volunteers and their communities, host country organizations, and Peace Corps projects have used these tools successfully.
Download or read book Service Disrupted written by Tyler E. Lloyd and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Niger written by Jolijn Geels and published by Bradt Travel Guides. This book was released on 2006 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers both ends of the travel market for Niger: upmarket travellers looking for background information as a supplement to a tour, and budget explorers with a need to know all the practicalities.
Download or read book Still Waters in Niger written by Kathleen Hill and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Irish-American woman, who had lived in Niger, returns after seventeen years to visit her daughter Zara, who works in a village clinic treating children who are suffering from starvation.
Download or read book Far Away in the Sky written by David L. Koren and published by David L Koren. This book was released on 2012-04-11 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Some were paid. Some felt compelled by a duty to God. Some volunteered. Some died doing it. All flew on rickety old aircraft into a nighttime, wartime patch of African forest called Biafra. Far Away in the Sky gives the personal account of one of them, a young American volunteer who joined the largest international humanitarian relief airlift ever attempted. In 1968 millions of people, mostly children, were starving due to a military blockade of Biafra, the former Eastern Region of Nigeria. The World Council of Churches and Caritas International mounted a relief airlift. Flying at night to avoid Nigerian Migs, without radar or any modern navigational aids, landing amid bombs on a stretch of road in the rain forest, the old planes delivered thousands of tons of food and medicines. UNICEF recruited six former United States Peace Corps Volunteers, including the author, to help unload the planes. The former volunteers had served in Nigeria and were familiar with the area and the people. To David Koren the people of Biafra, his former students and fellow teachers, constituted his motive for joining the airlift. More than just a memoir of events, Far Away in the Sky promotes a discussion of international aid, of the balance between the grace of giving and the dignity of receiving aid, and the policies of governments toward intervention or non-intervention in humanitarian disasters. How do the lessons of Biafra apply to modern eruptions like Rwanda, Darfur, Libya, Syria and those yet to come? .
Download or read book The Death of Idealism written by Meghan Elizabeth Kallman and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-04-21 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Peace Corps volunteers seem to exemplify the desire to make the world a better place. Yet despite being one of history’s clearest cases of organized idealism, the Peace Corps has, in practice, ended up cultivating very different outcomes among its volunteers. By the time they return from the Peace Corps, volunteers exhibit surprising shifts in their political and professional consciousness. Rather than developing a systemic perspective on development and poverty, they tend instead to focus on individual behavior; they see professions as the only legitimate source of political and social power. They have lost their idealism, and their convictions and beliefs have been reshaped along the way. The Death of Idealism uses the case of the Peace Corps to explain why and how participation in a bureaucratic organization changes people’s ideals and politics. Meghan Elizabeth Kallman offers an innovative institutional analysis of the role of idealism in development organizations. She details the combination of social forces and organizational pressures that depoliticizes Peace Corps volunteers, channels their idealism toward professionalization, and leads to cynicism or disengagement. Kallman sheds light on the structural reasons for the persistent failure of development organizations and the consequences for the people involved. Based on interviews with over 140 current and returned Peace Corps volunteers, field observations, and a large-scale survey, this deeply researched, theoretically rigorous book offers a novel perspective on how people lose their idealism, and why that matters.
Download or read book Living on the Edge written by John Coyne and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Stories by members of the Peace Corps, recounting their adventures in the Third World. Typical is Ma Kamanda's Latrine by Marla Kay Houghteling, in which an African chief turns down the heroine's request for a latrine, suggesting she use the bush like everyone else. "After years of British, we do not need Americans telling us how to do things."
Download or read book Environmental education in the schools creating a program that works written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book My African Horse Problem written by William F. S. Miles and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A cross-cultural memoir by a former Peace Corps volunteer and Fulbright scholar.
Download or read book Speak written by Laurie Halse Anderson and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR). This book was released on 2011-05-10 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The groundbreaking National Book Award Finalist and Michael L. Printz Honor Book with more than 3.5 million copies sold, Speak is a bestselling modern classic about consent, healing, and finding your voice. "Speak up for yourself—we want to know what you have to say." From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, an outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops. Now nobody will talk to her, let alone listen to her. As time passes, Melinda becomes increasingly isolated and practically stops talking altogether. Only her art class offers any solace, and it is through her work on an art project that she is finally able to face what really happened at that terrible party: she was raped by an upperclassman, a guy who still attends Merryweather and is still a threat to her. Her healing process has just begun when she has another violent encounter with him. But this time Melinda fights back—and refuses to be silent. From Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award laureate Laurie Halse Anderson comes the extraordinary landmark novel that has spoken to millions of readers. Powerful and utterly unforgettable, Speak has been translated into 35 languages, was the basis for the major motion picture starring Kristen Stewart, and is now a stunning graphic novel adapted by Laurie Halse Anderson herself, with artwork from Eisner-Award winner Emily Carroll. Awards and Accolades for Speak: A New York Times Bestseller A National Book Award Finalist for Young People’s Literature A Michael L. Printz Honor Book An Edgar Allan Poe Award Finalist A Los Angeles Times Book Prize Finalist A TIME Magazine Best YA Book of All Time A Cosmopolitan Magazine Best YA Books Everyone Should Read, Regardless of Age
Download or read book Butabu written by James Morris and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the complex technique of wet earth construction, as practised in parts of West Africa. It includes a variety of structures, ranging from small huts to mosques, including the mosque at Dougoumba which dates from the 12th century.
Download or read book Breaking Kola An Inside View of African Customs written by Catherine Onyemelukwe and published by Peace Corps Writers. This book was released on 2018-11-26 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When Catherine arrived in Nigeria as an idealistic Peace Corps volunteer, she had no idea of the wealth of customs and traditions she would come to love. With her marriage to a Nigerian electrical engineer, senior manager in the country's power industry, she became part of his family, clan, and village. She learned to speak the Igbo language and not only adapted to, but adopted, some of the customs of his people. In this intimate portrayal of family members, she reveals the secrets of the ties that bind her to his community. Through the striking accounts of her husbands' parents in their youth and with nods to customs from other tribes and countries, she paints an unforgettable picture of African life in times past. She evokes the atmosphere of the village market, the religious rituals, and the ceremonies that accompany life's major events. The author also reveals the challenges between the Christianity adopted by her husband's family and the traditions they sometimes abandon and sometimes preserve.The reader is brought into an African village with its richness of music, dance, ritual, and mystery. Throughout the book, the importance of family is stressed. She demonstrates the importance of showing respect for elders, honoring the ancestors, and caring for children communally. She contrasts this sense of community to the individualism experienced by people in the West. With her vivid descriptions of Igbo names and religious beliefs, she adds to the readers' understanding of an African society. How she found her own community is revealed in the last chapters of this intriguing book. She has taken her message of the importance of family and community to many venues. Four sermons she has presented are included in the appendix. Suggested discussion questions for book groups are also provided.
Download or read book Nothing Works But Everything Works Out written by Leigh Marie Dannhauser and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-14 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leigh 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.
Download or read book The Toughest Job written by Scott Henrickson and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2016-01-27 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1995, a young civil engineer volunteers for the Peace Corps in Cote d'Ivoire, West Africa. He encounters extreme poverty, harsh conditions, religious differences, and political turmoil. He endures polluted water and suspect food, debilitating illness and perpetual frustration, police bribes and widespread corruption, a hunt for bad sorcerers, a run-in with the Taureg Freedom Fighters, being stranded in the middle of a 465,000 acre national park with large African predators, an attack from a sacred mask, and a visit from a deadly green mamba. The Toughest Job is a window into the unique world of the Peace Corps volunteer and the challenges they must face to carry out their lofty mission.
