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Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2012-023
David Zakem served as a Peace Corps volunteer in four different countries: Somalia (1968-1969, agriculture); Swaziland (1969-1971, secondary education); Belize (1987-1989, community education); and Guatemala (1989-1992, maternal and child health care). He talks about leaving his project in Somalia because he felt the assignment would ultimately hurt the people with whom he was working. The Peace Corps headquarters agreed with his assessment of the situation and reassigned him to Swaziland. After establishing a career in international education and pursuing an advanced degree, Zakem rejoined the Peace Corps and was sent to Central America. In the interview, he discusses the influence of his Peace Corps experience on the rest of his life. Interviewed and recorded by Phyllis Noble, June 9, 2012. 2 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-ACC-2017-038
Kathleen Snyder Cox served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras from 1971 to 1973. After training in Puerto Rico, she was assigned to work on a public health and nutrition project organized by Caritas (Catholic Relief Services). Snyder was stationed in Juticalpa, the capital of the Olancho Department. She worked with impoverished women from outlying villages, and trained them in nutrition education and health care so that they could return to their villages to function as "promotoras de salud" (community health workers). Interviewed and recorded by Phyllis Noble, March 2, 2017. 2 digital audio files (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-ACC-2016-005
Beverly J. (Bev) Hanlon served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras from 1966 to 1968 on a community organization project. After training in St. Louis, Missouri, Bev and her new husband Joe began their volunteer service in the town of Goascoran, near the border with El Salvador. Bev began a preschool for local children and organized a sewing project in which women made baby clothes. The interview includes an account of a difficult time in which Bev was not granted permission to travel home to see her father before he died. Interviewed and recorded by Phyllis Noble, October 17, 2015. 2 digital audio files (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-ACC-2016-004
Joseph C. (Joe) Hanlon served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras from 1966 to 1968 on a community organization project. Joe and his new wife Beverly joined the Peace Corps after Joe completed his undergraduate degree at Yale University. After training in St. Louis, Missouri, the couple began their service in the town of Goascoran, near the border with El Salvador. Joe's activities as a community organizer included working with communities to use funding from the relief agency CARE to construct school buildings, working with local farmers to grow demonstration farming plots using seeds donated by the United Nations, and organizing a local credit union. Interviewed and recorded by Phyllis Noble, October 14, 2015. 2 digital audio files (web streaming files combined into 1 file).