Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-ACC-2019-115
Martha Fedorowicz served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco from March 2012 to May 2014 in a youth development program. She was responsible for programming in the youth center in El Borouj, a small city in the middle of the country. There, she taught English and French, created an environmental club, established a computer lab, and ran a youth entrepreneurship program in conjunction with INJAZ Al Maghrib, the Junior Achievement program in Morocco. She also taught a women's aerobics class and worked with women in her community to develop a festival. Based on her very positive experience working with women and youth, Fedorowicz believes the Peace Corps should be thought of as an international relationship-building program more than an international development program. She also discusses the sexual harassment she experienced as a young foreign woman in Morocco. After her service and a backpacking trip to East Africa, she attended graduate school at the University of Michigan where she taught a class on Arab culture and served as a Peace Corps recruiter. Interviewed and recorded by Evelyn Ganzglass, June 29, 2019. 2 digital audio files (web streaming files combined into 1 file).