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ISBN:
Category : Cameroon
Languages : en
Pages : 4
Book Description
The Peace Corps in Cameroon
Author: The Peace Corps in Cameroon
Author: Julius A. AminPublisher: Kent State University Press
ISBN: 9780873384506
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
The Peace Corps was established in 1961 by the Kennedy administration, with the primary goal to help Third World countries while guarding against the expansion of communism. This study analyzes the programme and the performance of its volunteers in Cameroon during the 1960s.
Cameroon
Author: Peace CorpsPublisher: CreateSpace
ISBN: 9781497563551
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Peace Corps entered Cameroon in 1962 with 20 Volunteers who served as math and science teachers. Peace Corps/Cameroon's program grew and diversified to include inland fisheries, credit union and cooperatives education, English, community forestry, health and sanitation, and community development. Since then, more than 3,200 Volunteers have served in Cameroon. Currently, there are five robust projects in Cameroon: education, community health, environment, community economic development and youth development. The common themes that run through all Peace Corps/Cameroon projects are impact, focus, counterpart involvement, Volunteer competence, and organizational professionalism. Through collaboration and good teamwork, the Peace Corps has made a difference in many aspects of life in Cameroon, one community at a time. History and Future of Peace Corps Programming in Cameroon: Peace Corps programs directly respond to development priorities of the Cameroonian government. For example, the Community Health Project was recently redesigned to focus on maternal and child health and HIV/AIDS prevention and mitigation areas in order to assist Cameroon in its achievement of Millennium Development Goals. Although Volunteers are placed throughout all 10 regions of Cameroon, not every project is represented in every region. Each project concentrates on a few of the regions to maximize Volunteer impact and effectiveness.
Peace Corps in Africa
Author: Peace Corps (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 20
Book Description
Sixty Years of Service in Africa
Author: Julius A. AminPublisher:
ISBN: 9781003450290
Category : Economic assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
"Based on previously unused primary sources obtained from both sides of the Atlantic, this study provides a more fundamental, consistent, and balanced source-based assessment of the role of the US Peace Corps across its entire existence in Africa. The study sheds light on a new and intriguing historical perspective of the Peace Corps' meaning and significance. Though the main trust is Cameroon, the study offers a window to understanding Peace Corps performance in all of Africa, and the larger global community. It examines volunteers' service in countries including Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, and Guinea, showing how the agency transitioned from and Cold War agency to the Post-Cold War era, while asking important questions about the continuous relevance of Peace Corps in Africa. In addressing the topic, the book goes beyond the Peace Corps and delves into America's "Achilles heels," which was the culture of anti-black racism, showing how it impacted US foreign policy in the post-World War II era. The book delves into modernization theories showing how those ideas shaped the creation of the Peace corps, but ultimately contributed to the agency's problems. The book questions the Peace Corps' effectiveness as a development organization and much more. Yet for all the agency's problems, the Peace Corps served as a rite of passage for returned Volunteers to make everlasting contributions to American life and society. This book contributes to modern African and American studies, and to diplomatic history"--
Nothing Works But Everything Works Out
Author: Leigh Marie DannhauserPublisher:
ISBN: 9781733354004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 188
Book Description
Leigh Marie Dannhauser gets sent to Cameroon to serve as a Peace Corps volunteer. She faces the challenges of adapting to a new way of life while not knowing French or the patois. But she persists, and in the process learns about herself away from American society. This is the story of her time in a village that became her home but is now a memory.
The Peace Corps Volunteer, a Quarterly Statistical Summary
Author: Peace Corps (U.S.). Division of Volunteer SupportPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 860
Book Description
Peace Corps Annual Operations Report
Author: Peace Corps (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural assistance, American
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
The Life of an African Peace Corps Child
Author: Chia TasahPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1491771577
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
My autobiography recounts my life from 1980 as an African Peace Corps child until I became a US citizen in 2012. I lived a full life as a needy child from a poverty-stricken nuclear family of nine and believe I have something fascinating to share with the world. Despite my pennilessness, I made great strides in my endeavors and thrived. I call myself a Peace Corps child of Africa because American Peace Corps volunteers, with benevolent and philanthropic gestures, encouraged my growth into an authentic adult. Mr. Alan Lakomski whisked me away from my job as bartender and manager of a confidential decadent brothel at Club 185 Njinikom at age fourteen and sent me to secondary school. He returned to the United States when his term expired. Bill Strassberger replaced Dan Hunter and supported my education. Christine Swanson advised me to apply to the master-of-education program in human resource development at the University of Minnesota in 2003. I graduated in 2005 with an MEd and now work as an independent team-building and cultural-diversity consultant at All World Languages and Cultures, Inc., in Kansas City, Missouri.
Memories of Africa
Author: Ann E. WoollcombePublisher: A.E. Woollcombe
ISBN: 9780973463903
Category : Cameroon
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
