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Articles from Venezuela
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My Peace Corps Reflections
You might say I was one of the first Peace Corps volunteers, even though I just missed being counted among the first 1000. I served in Venezuela as part of an agricultural extension project, during the period 1962-64. As a Volunteer Leader, I supervised 19 Volunteers at 13 sites throughout six states. The project’s main purpose was to develop 4-H Clubs (called 5-V in Venezuela), and provide the youth with techniques in agriculture and home economics. Prior to our departure from Washin...
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Slick work
Peace Corps volunteers are by nature creative, independent folks who frequently expend energy to delay or avoid altogether aspects of living in the host country that they find distasteful. One such aspect was the required gamma globulin shots that we as Peace Corps physicians were mandated to give to each of them at regular intervals to lessen the risk of acquiring viral hepatitis. Many would dutifully arrive at the medical office in Caracas. Others had to be hunted in their rural...
