What's It Like to Volunteer?
150 Stories Found
| Country | Title | Volunteer |
|---|---|---|
| Armenia | Profile: Heidi and Jim Wilton | Heidi Wilton |
| Belize | All It Takes Is Time | Donna Statler |
| Belize | From a Ghetto Brownstone to a Jungle Brown Hut | Henry Mulzac |
| Benin | From Hawaii to Benin | Dana Miller |
| Benin | Project Panther | Helena Hart |
| Benin | Profile: Tina Singleton | Tina Singleton |
| Bolivia | Changing Perspectives | Christina Luongo |
| Bolivia | Profile: Mike Dockry (Citizen Potawatomi Nation) | Michael Dockry |
| Bolivia | Profile: Stephen Spaulding | Stephen Spaulding |
| Bolivia | RPCV Fellows/USA Profile: Sean Nagle | Sean Nagle |
| Bulgaria | Profile: Anissa Paulsen | Anissa Paulsen |
| Bulgaria | A Letter From Bulgaria | Eric Friedman |
| Bulgaria | There Is Time | Casey Laycock |
| Burkina Faso | If There’s Enough For One | Kara Garbe |
| Burkina Faso | Saying Goodbye | Caroline Chambre |
| Burkina Faso | Going Home | Theresa Lawhon |
| Cameroon | Fellows/USA Profile: Jeannie Frazier | Jeannie Frazier |
| Cameroon | Development is Down this Road | Abigail Calkins |
| Cameroon | The Faces Of An Acacia Tree | Karin Vermilye |
| Colombia | Twice in My Life | Maureen Orth |
| Cote d'Ivoire | Gravel in its Intestines? | Elizabeth Whisenhunt |
| Czech Republic | Extended Families | JoAnn Seibert |
| Dominican Republic | Not Just Any Other Day | Dianne Garyantes |
| Dominican Republic | Talking Of Trees | Aaron Welch |
| Eastern Caribbean | Local Generosity Nose No Limits | Barbara O'Brien |
| Ecuador | Profile: Patrick Smith | Patrick Smith |
| Ecuador | Finding Meaning In Hair | Andrei Cotton |
| Ecuador | Fellows/USA Profile: Jim Burkett | James Burkett |
| Ecuador | Profile: Kamila Alexander | Kamila Alexander |
| Ecuador | The Student Arrives at the Door | Moritz Thomsen |
| Estonia | Michael Kelly: Peace Corps Turning 40 | Douglas Wells |
| Ethiopia | But No Postcards | John Coyne |
| Ethiopia | The Pink Eraser | Kate Collins |
| Ethiopia | May the Circle Be Unbroken | John Garamendi |
| Ethiopia | The Song Of Our People | David Arnold |
| Federated States of Micronesia | Everyone Everywhere Has Tales to Tell | Carol Severance |
| Federated States of Micronesia | Island Ghosts | Gardner Smith |
| Gabon | The Fridge Factor | Bonnie Black |
| Ghana | Profile: Mike Tubianosa | Mike Tubianosa |
| Ghana | Profile: Behzad Roohi | Behzad Roohi |
| Ghana | Profile: Sam Bacote | Samuel Bacote |
| Guatemala | Not A Waste Of Time At All | Ronald Venezia |
| Guatemala | Not a Waste of Time At All | Ronald Venezia |
| Guatemala | ¡Que milagro! | Kerrie Resendes |
| Guatemala | Magic Pablo | Mark Brazaitis |
| Guatemala | RPCV Fellows/USA Profile: Amanda Martin | Amanda Martin |
| Guinea | Food And Identity In An African Village | Allyson Gardner |
| Guinea | Shades of Gray | Joshua Johnson |
| Guinea | Peace Corps Runs in the Family | Scott Gallagher |
| Guinea | RPCV Fellows/USA Profile: Orlando Crosby | Orlando Crosby |
| Guinea-Bissau | Cross Cultural Dialogue | Roseanne Wollmering |
| Guyana | Telling Time | Katherine Jamieson |
| Honduras | Women Can Learn Things Too | Amber Davis-Collins |
| Honduras | Goods and Services | Larissa Zoot |
| Honduras | Profile: Peter Arellanes | Peter Arellanes |
| Hungary | From Leningrad to Budapest | Jeffrey Taylor |
| Iran | Welcome to the Pace Corps | Donna Shalala |
| Jamaica | That Rascal, Melvin | Camilla Griffiths |
| Jordan | My New Family | Audra Vann |
| Kazakhstan | Itam | Jeffrey Fearnside |
| Kazakhstan | The Train Ride Home | Robin Solomon |
| Kenya | The Work Continues | Kelly Daniel |
| Kenya | Profile: Young Lam | Young Lam |
| Kiribati | Training: A Question of Family | Eric Kroetsch |
| Kiribati | Chores and Donuts | Eric Kroetsch |
| Kyrgyz Republic | Rich and Poor | Leslie Wakulich |
| Kyrgyz Republic | Hummingbirds or Fairies? | Megan Mentrek |
| Kyrgyz Republic | Fellows/USA Profile: Jamal Nasafi | Jamal Nasafi |
| Latvia | Holy Water in a Vodka Bottle | Kevin O'Donoghue |
| Lesotho | Peace Corps Honors Outstanding African American Community Leader | Marcia Pierce |
| Lesotho | In a Pig's Eye | Matthew Losak |
| Lesotho | The Cana Chicken Incident | Gregory Knight |
| Liberia | Save Johnny | Paul Eagle |
| Malawi | Amayi Makawa | Tanya Elders |
| Malawi | Family Affair | Tana Beverwyk |
| Mali | White | Lynn Marshall |
| Mali | Water | Rachel Schneller |
| Mali | Profile: Gabriela Gomez | Gabriella Gomez |
| Moldova | Volunteer Let Fate Choose Her Destination | Kimberly McMinn |
| Moldova | Different Kinds Of Lessons In Moldova | April Simun |
| Mongolia | Profile: Regina Wei | Regina Wei |
| Mongolia | The Brown American Who Lived in a Ger | Dara-Renee Hollinsed |
| Mongolia | Cold Mornings | Matthew Heller |
| Mongolia | Profile: Brian DaRin | Brian DaRin |
| Morocco | The Rhythm of Women | Kathryn Crabb |
| Morocco | Neighbors | Orin Hargraves |
| Mozambique | Profile: Jill Cadreau (Nishinabe Chippewa Tribe) | Jill Cadreau |
| Namibia | Profile: George Siasoco | George Siasoco |
| Namibia | Profile: Suan Hanson | Suan Hanson |
| Nepal | Renewable Resources: Growing Up With “Sarge” Shriver’s Biggest Fans | Adrienne Benson |
| Nepal | Thunder and Enlightenment | Duane Karlen |
| Nicaragua | Profile: Dana Carson and Ed Chew | Dana Carson |
| Nicaragua | Profile: Azikiwe Chandler | Azikiwe Chandler |
| Niger | Trekking to the Sahara | Deborah Ball |
| Niger | Mariama | Susan Rich |
| Nigeria | Shakespeare in Calabar | Tom Hebert |
| Panama | Leave Taking | Beth Genovese |
| Panama | Profile: Carmenza Cespedes, and her mother, Isabel Cespedes | Carmenza Cespedes |
| Papua New Guinea | A Single, Lucid Moment | Robert Soderstrom |
| Papua New Guinea | A Day in Papua New Guinea | Aaron Petty |
| Paraguay | Volunteer Affects Generations to Come in South America | Joseph Garcia |
| Paraguay | Pombero, Creature of the Paraguayan Night | Jane Troxell |
| Paraguay | When The Student Is Ready, The Teacher Will Appear | Bernadette Lorenzo |
| Paraguay | A Taste of Success | Rachel Pena |
| Paraguay | Profile: Alexandra Stanat | Alexandra Stanat |
| Philippines | Looking Back | Pamela Benson |
| Poland | Letter From Poland | Mary Ziemer |
| Poland | Profile: Cindy Bestland | Cindy Bestland |
| Poland | RPCV Fellows/USA Profile: Johanna Snedeker | Johanna Gueco |
| Romania | Profile: Lorna Babby (Oglala Sioux Tribe) | Lorna Babby |
| Russia | A Letter From Russia | Daphne Earley |
| Senegal | The Tao of Rice | Sarah Snyder |
| Senegal | First Day | Susan Rosenfeld |
| Sierra Leone | Canaan Village | Elva Heinz |
| Sierra Leone | Leaving a Legacy | Gary Schulze |
| Sierra Leone | An Inconvenience is an Adventure, Rightly Viewed | J. Kinney Thiele |
| Sierra Leone | Fishing in Sierra Leone | Philip Hellmich |
| Sierra Leone | An African Beggar | John Przywara |
| Sierra Leone | Profile: Merry Hutton | Merry Hutton |
| Somalia | Finding My Village | Charles Baquet |
| South Africa | Profile: Clemenceau Williams | Clemenceau Williams |
| South Africa | Profile: Denise Nina Hernandez | Denise Hernandez |
| South Africa | America Gave Me To You | C Glin |
| South Africa | Angel | Barbara Arrington |
| South Africa | Profile: C.D. Glin | C Glin |
| Swaziland | Abundant Rewards | Laura Stedman |
| Swaziland | Wood-looking | Sam Birchall |
| Tanzania | Taking Time | Walter Hawkes |
| Tanzania | Where Credit Is Due | Karen Schaefer |
| Tanzania | RPCV Fellows/USA Profile: Kalimah Fergus | Kalimah Fergus |
| Thailand | Hopi High Hailed as RPCV Magnet | Saundra Schimmelpfennig |
| Thailand | Profile: Lanette Woo | Lanette Woo |
| The Gambia | Reasons for Joy | Victoria Derr |
| The Peoples Republic of China | The New Retirement: Peace Corps in the Golden Years | Judith Frey |
| The Peoples Republic of China | Profile: Helen Raffel | Helen Raffel |
| Togo | Soybean Transformations | John Sheffy |
| Tonga | Under the Tongan Sun | Tina Martin |
| Tonga | A Day's Gift in Tonga | Paul Neville |
| Tunisia | YSWF: Living in an Arab World | Lora Parisien |
| Turkmenistan | Profile: Vivian Colon | Vivian Colon |
| Turkmenistan | Hope Dies Last | Patrick Burns |
| Ukraine | Why Not? | Dorothy Sales |
| Ukraine | To Peel Potatoes | John Deever |
| Ukraine | Profile: James Rodriguez | James Rodriguez |
| Uzbekistan | Doppas | John Smart |
| Uzbekistan | Halloween In Tashkent | Ruby Long |
| Uzbekistan | The Cotton Trenches of Uzbekistan | Beatrice Grabish |
| Uzbekistan | Profile: Jason Bennett | Jason Bennett |
| Uzbekistan | The Importance Of Drinking Tea | Jake Jones |
| Zaire | The Joy of Digging | Michael Tidwell |
Last updated Jan 06 2009
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