UzReport.com - Tashkent,Uzbekistan Volunteers completed 11-week orientation programme. The programme envisaged their learning of either Uzbek or Russian language, familiarisation with Uzbek culture and traditions, and technical training. …
Oklahoma Daily - Norman,OK,USA Going home had never been so hard for Lisa Roberts, an Oklahoma University alum. Her friends threw a going away party and she promised she would come back in five years. However, Roberts said she felt like she was leaving home, rather than returning. “I was happy to be coming home to [...]
The Delaware County Times - Chester,PA,USA I live in a small pueblo in Bolivia. My house has running water but no shower so we bathe via buckets. I consider myself lucky, though, as some of my friends only have water for a few hours a day, if that. …
(via Star-Telegram.com) The FBI is sending agents to help investigate the slaying of two American missionaries in a southwest town in Guyana near the border with Brazil, police said Saturday. The seven-member FBI team will arrive Monday to help investigate the slayings of Richard Hicks, 42, and his wife Charlene, 58, said Deputy Police Chief Henry Greene. [...]
On Saturday, April 2nd I attended the traditional Hindu wedding between a Peace Corps volunteer friend and a Guyanese friend, Niki and Ian. It was an exceptional day, as Niki asked that I give her away at the wedding as her father would not be attending. I was honored and thrilled to do [...]
