Friends of Nepal

We are all so proud of Catherine Foster for winning the Lillian Carter Prize which will be presented to her by President Carter.  A sample of how the Nepali staff feels about it is below:
Catherineji,  Lillian Carter Puraskaar paaunu bhaekomaa Peace Corps Nepalko sabai staff saathiharuko tarphbaaTa tapaainlaai haamro haardik badhaai ani Shubhkaamnaa chha. tapaainle [...]

ENCORE, the organization placing RPCVs in short volunteer jobs overseas has the following position.  If you email they, they will send you more information on a particular job.   Also, see end to get yourself into their database.
1) LOCATION: Kumi, Uganda
CROP OR VALUE CHAIN: oil seed crops
START DATE: Aug-09
LENGTH OF ASSIGNMENT: 20 days
ASSIGNMENT: Postharvest handling & [...]

A Milestone for the Peace Corps
Showing incredible political courage, Representative Howard Berman in today’s hearing of the House Foreign Affairs Committee tossed out the administration’s $373 million figure for the Peace Corps in FY 2010 and replaced it with $450 million. This is a gigantic step for the Peace Corps, [...]

START DATE MID AUGUST!!!!!!!
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY/JOB DESCRIPTION: Encore! will recruit TWO Volunteers to teach third year courses in 1) Mental Health, 2) Community Health, 3) Maternal and Newborn Nursing and4)  Medical and Surgical Nursing, and to conduct community health workshops. The service-learning contract is for four months (one semester). We are recruiting Volunteers to teach class [...]

Enjoy!
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