Desert Doves

As we prepare for the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps in 2011, I invite you today to do three things:

Connect: visit our website at www.peacecorpsconnect.org to join NPCA and any of our over 130 member groups. (If you are already a member, thank you and please forward this to your friends to encourage them […]

Sheryal Valencic, an RPCV from Turkmenistan (1999-2001), has been active in several foreign exchange programs since returning to the States and has hosted four different high-school students.
Now she’s the regional coordinator with a program sponsored by the US State Department called “American Councils.” They’re looking for families that can host high-school students during the […]

The Migrant Trail Walk organizing committee is soliciting snack food for the Walk participants. They need the following:

powdered Gatorade
dried fruit
peanut butter
granola bars

To make things easier, you can bring donated food items to the
meeting next Saturday and give them to Kylie Walzak, our point of contact for the Walk.
You can find out more about The Migrant […]

From the Friends of Benin Yahoo! group:
Chris Delcher (RPCV El Salvador, 1998-2000) is trying to find the maps and mapmakers of the Peace Corps. Many Volunteers are trained to make community maps while in service. These maps range from the hand-drawn variety that live in tattered journals to very sophisticated maps created with digital […]

From the NPCA:
We all remember traveling to different towns, villages and cities when we were PCVs. In each place we most often stayed with other volunteers. That sharing helped instill the “connection” to which we repeatedly refer. When the enthusiastic response is “I like these people” you know that something good is happening.
We’d […]