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The article is here. I thought that they should have at least offered him choice of assignments world wide. PC is supposed to be liable for diseases caught during service for life, but it doesn’t sound like they are paying. Yes, the house just passed the 50 billion dollar Global Aids budget and PC has a big part in the five year budgets and hiring PCVs.
After a year of blogging here at Third Goal, we have decided to make the move to another blog site. To those of you who have followed our blogs about our Peace Corps experiences in Mexico, we’ve appreciated your interest and comments.
Christian & Alysia
Hello,
My wife recently tore her ACL and will require surgery and rehabilitation to fix it. We were nominated to go to Burkina Faso in June 08 and now we are waiting to hear back from OMS about what will happen with us. I fear that they will make us wait an inordinate amount of time (5-6 months, possibly more!) before they medically clear her again.
Does anyone know of someone else that received an injury right before departure.? Read the rest of this story »
I just learned that there is a new Peace Corps Wiki. I just added the first Guatemalan volunteer page: http://www.peacecorpswiki.org/Erik_W._Lang
Feel free to add your own pages. (More information below.) Read the rest of this story »
Peace Corps and NPCA are encouraging PCVs and RPCVs to share the third goal. The problem here is that this is really contrary to what Peace Corps and NPCA allows. NPCA’s blog will not post comments it doesn’t like. For example, it will post a negative comment about Peace Corps spying and State Department or the military, but won’t allow explanations. Peace Corps won’t tell anyone that several countries are consolidating because of constitutional unrest. They do not respond to emails.
Peace Corps bloggers are sharing on their blogs, something that is monitored daily by Peace Corps and discouraged. PCVs share the nice stories Peace Corps likes to keep their jobs and can’t really express themselves or they are threatened. Read the rest of this story »
