Through the Decades: 1990s

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A PCV in South Africa in 1998 headed to an event.
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PCV in Romania in 1998 working in the Education sector.
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South Africa 1990s.
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PCV Catherine Peebles teaches English at the First Liceum-Brukowa in Bialystok as part of the first group of Volunteers to go to Poland.
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PCV Jane Becker of Washington, D.C., teaches English at the First Liceum-Burdzinskiego in Warsaw as part of the first group of Volunteers to serve in Poland.
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A PCV in Nepal sits in her community of Bhopur with her dhais, "big brothers."
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PCV in Niger introduced a brand new Peace Corps program to the country called Maison Sans Bois (woodless house).
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PCVs in Niger travel across country in "bush taxis" or "navettes.”
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PCV Damien Jones serves as a teacher trainer in Gobardia, Nepal. He both teaches and assists the teachers at the Saraswati High School in mid-west Nepal. He also assists the agricultural teacher, in the development of a school garden.
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PCV Rebecca Enns serves as an urban planner in Pokhara, Nepal.
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PCV Sara Holtz pounding yams to make fufu in Togo.
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PCV Reynaldo Lumagui teaches new gardening techniques at Panmatzalam School, an elementary school located in the hills near San Andres Semetebaj, Guatemala.
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PCCV Bob Furillo works in agroforestry and beekeeping in San Francisco La Union, a remote village in Guatemala.
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PCV Eric Schneller quizzes six-year-old Ivy Armah Akos. Akoasi, Ghana.
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Vice Present Al Gore’s wife, First Lady Tipper Gore, stand with Peace Corps Director Mark Gearan at the kick-off for Crisis Corps.
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PCV Laura Martinez working in Youth Development, Education and Community Development in Belize.
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PCV Mary Shellabarger, Volunteer Regional Representative, at the regional headquarters, Kananga, Zaire.
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President Bill Clinton hosts a reception celebrating Peace Corps 35th anniversary and formally establishing Peace Corps Response.
1990

The first group of Peace Corps Volunteers to serve in Central and Eastern Europe depart for Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, and the Slovak Republic.

October 1993

Carol Bellamy (RPCV/Guatemala, 1963-1965) becomes the first RPCV to be appointed as Peace Corps Director.

1995

The first Camp GLOW (Girls Leading Our World) is established in Romania. Camp GLOW continues to encourage young women to be leaders in their communities.

December 1995

Peace Corps sends three Volunteers to Antigua to rebuild homes damaged by Hurricane Luis. This pilot program, originally known as Crisis Corps, later becomes Peace Corps Response and provides short-term, focused, humanitarian service to countries worldwide.

February 1997

Thirty-three Peace Corps Volunteers depart to work with teachers in post-apartheid South Africa.