Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-ACC-2019-047
Vikki Ott served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Sierra Leone from July 2017 to December 2018 in a community health project. She discusses her life before Peace Corps and the reason she joined, what it was like being the oldest person in her cohort (age 47), and life in the most eastern part of the country. She reflects on what she was trained to do and what that evolved into once she reached her site, and the difficult decision to interrupt her service and return to the U.S. early. Ott also discusses what she misses about her service, what the next stage of life looks like for her, and the importance of the Peace Corps. Interviewed and recorded by Candice Wiggum, January 15, 2019. 2 digital audio files (web streaming files combined into 1 file).