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Voices from the Peace Corps: Fifty Years of Kentucky Volunteers (Kentucky Remembered)

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President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps on March 1, 1961. Within the fifty years since, nearly 200,000 Americans have served in 139 countries, providing technical assistance, promoting a greater understanding of American culture, and bringing the world back to the USA.

In Voices from the Peace Corps: Fifty Years of Kentucky Volunteers, Angene Wilson and Jack Wilson, who served in Liberia from 1962 to 1964, follow the experiences of volunteers as they make the decision to enroll in, attend training, adjust to living in a foreign country and the job, make friends, and sooner or later return home to serve of their communities. Additionally they describe how the volunteers made a difference of their host countries and how they became citizens of the world for the remainder of their lives. Among many others, the interviewees include a physics teacher who served in Nigeria in 1961, a smallpox vaccinator who arrived in Afghanistan in 1969, a nineteen-year-old Mexican American who worked in an agricultural program in Guatemala Within the 1970s, a builder of schools and relationships who served in Gabon from 1989 to 1992, and a retired place of work administrator who taught business in Ukraine from 2000 to 2002. Voices from the Peace Corps emphasizes the value of practical idealism in building meaningful cultural connections that span the globe.

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