Peace Corps Week – PCV Ecuador Video
Peace Corps week just ended March 1, and PCV Kyle King posted a pretty cool video of his experiences in Ecuador, which of course made me nostalgic. Check it out.
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RPCV Opportunities to Jump Start Your Career & Bring the World Home
Dear RPCVs:
Peace Corps is bringing its RPCV support around the country to help you jump start your career. Whether you’ve been back 10 days or 10 years, we hope you’ll sign up for any of the following regional or national RPCV Career Events to get yourself back in shape for the U.S. job market or to refresh your job search strategy as you change career direction:
Spring 2014 RPCV Career Events
- Arizona Regional RPCV Career Event – March 12-13
- National RPCV Career Conference – April 7-10
- Illinois Regional RPCV Career Event – May 14-15
- Nashville Regional RPCV Career Event – June 19
On the cultural front, with fewer than 10 days left until the start of Peace Corps Week, we hope you’ll take a couple minutes to see what’s already been done by PCVs and RPCVs participating in the Video and Classroom Challenges. It’s not too late for you to join in and there are tote bags, maps, and even the possibility of a free iPad to entice you!
Thank you for your service and for continuing to make a difference.
All the best,
Peace Corps Office of Third Goal and Returned Volunteer Services
202.692.1430
Follow us on Twitter @PCThirdGoal, #PCWeek2014
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Peanut Sauce
Mary Weick-Brady brings us another recipe, following on her earlier recipes for hot chocolate and use of parsley. Who did not have peanut sauce when they lived in Ecuador? Here’s a great recipe for that peanut sauce that will bring back many memories.
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Peace Corps Connect Gathering in Nashville in June 2014
NPCA is very excited to be hosting Peace Corps Connect – 2014 in Nashville, TN with the great support of the Tennessee Returned Peace Corps Volunteers!
For those of you on Facebook, be sure to check out the fun aspects of Nashville hospitality.
The preliminary summary of events for June 20th and 21st is as follows:
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Rotary Peace Fellowship Program
Dear Friends of Peace Corps,
I am writing to you as an RPCV from Peru 2004-2006. I am currently working at The Rotary Foundation with the Rotary Peace Fellowship Program. We have just completed a successful round of our Rotary Peace Centers fellow selection for 2013-14 and are starting recruitment for the 2014-15 selection. I wanted to reach out to you for help with recruitment—for RPCVs, PCVs and HCNs in volunteers’ sites and in the PC office. Over the past ten years, Rotary Peace Centers has provided over 700 future peace leaders with peace and conflict resolution education and field experience. Our alumni work all over the world with organizations ranging from grassroots peace initiatives in Africa to the United Nations. In an effort to reach out to more qualified candidates all over the world, Rotary is reaching out peace-related organizations and asking them to post our fellowship opportunity to their websites, social media, listservs or newsletters. This is such an incredible opportunity for RPCVs and for leaders in their community. …
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Letter from New Peace Corps Ecuador Country Director
Saludos Friends of Ecuador!
As you are probably aware, Peace Corps Ecuador has been undergoing quite a few changes in the past few months. Parmer Heacox, who has led Peace Corps Ecuador for the past three years, has moved on to be the Peace Corps Country Director for Peru, and I arrived at the helm in Ecuador in early November. In addition, our former Director of Programming and Training, Dana Platin, and our Director of Manager and Operations, Joshua Cuscaden, also have moved on to other adventures. So, Peace Corps Ecuador is in the process of incorporating an entirely new leadership team. …
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Update from Peace Corps Ecuador
Here is an update from Peace Corps Ecuador with a new arrival of PCVs, PCE’s effort to conserve energy, and more. …
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El Clima Fall 2013 Story # 2 – VAC Grant Recipients
As you know, FOE supports VAC calendar sales, and these sales go to support volunteer projects. In the last issue of El Clima, volunteers reported on the recipients of VAC grants, some of which were supported through calendar sales purchased through Friends of Ecuador. We include that story from El Clima but just edited to include province rather than town name of all the volunteer who received VAC grants.
VAC is proud to announce the passing of a successful grant season! …
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El Clima Fall 2013 Story #1 – Why We “Second Goal” It
This is a story from PCV Zach Borenstein from the latest issue of El Clima. We thank El Clima staff, namely editor Rich Castello and Zach for sharing these stories with us.
It didn’t take long for me to realize that my host brothers, 8 and 16, like movies, so I decided, in my over- zealous quest to have education play a bigger role in their lives, that we might as well try to watch movies that are informative. There was not a moment of hesitation before the first film came to mind: Schindler’s List. …
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USAID to leave Ecuador
This will not affect Peace Corps Ecuador (in fact one group is COSing in January and another is arriving), but here is some pretty startling news out of Ecuador:
The US Agency for International Development says it plans to leave Ecuador amid an impasse with the government, just six months after the agency was kicked out of Bolivia, in what analysts say is another sign of the waning US influence in the region. …
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