Friends of Nepal

There is an effort underway, led by Nepal RPCV Rajeev Goyal, to double the Peace Corps budget by 2010. I think this is something we all support.

Some info below including locations of 100 House Parties all over the world -the first stage of the campaign. One of the parties is being hosted by RPCV Mike Gill in New York state.

– Aaron

Starting on September 6, 2008, the MorePeaceCorps.org campaign will be hosting 100 House Parties in all 50 states and 10 countries around the world to build support for doubling the size of the Peace Corps. With parties springing up in places like Santiago and Micronesia, what was originally billed as a domestic campaign has become a global phenomenon. MorePeaceCorps will even be holding a party in Kabul, hosted by a former Peace Corps volunteer who is now head of the Save the Children program in Afghanistan. MorePeaceCorps was launched in 2008 by the National Peace Corps Association to call for a bigger, better and bolder Peace Corps – one that is doubled in size by 2011, the 50th anniversary of the founding of Peace Corps.

List of House Parties

From Mike Gill

I write today to let you know that my wife Barbara Butterworth (Nepal
7) and I will be hosting a More Peace Corps House Party from 4-8 pm at
our home in Cutchogue, Long Island NY on Saturday, September 6, 2008.

As you no doubt know, the More Peace Corps campaign is an effort
sponsored by the National Peace Corps Association and headed up by
former Nepal Volunteer Rajeev Goyal (Nepal 2001-03). The goal is to
build public and congressional support to double the size of the Peace
Corps budget and the number of serving PCVs by the organization’s 50th
anniversary in 2011.

Any assistance FON can give in publicizing this event will be greatly
appreciated. Our address is 12030 New Suffolk Avenue, Cutchogue, NY
11935. We’re located on the shores of the beautiful Great Peconic Bay,
near the eastern end of Long Island, about 2 hours east of NYC. We’d
love to see as many Nepal PCVs as possible at our gathering. We can’t
promise dal bhat for all, but I’ll bet that the food will be tasty
nonetheless.

Best Regards, Mike Gill (Nepal 12)

I am looking for Alan Ang. He was a Peace Corps volunteer in the 80’s. I met him in Kathmandu. Now I live in America and would like to contact him. I live in Seattle Washington State. I hear Mr. Ang lives in California.My phone is 646-387-9914.

Grateful for help,
Ram Gurung

As of today’s date, almost 2,000 former Peace Corps Volunteers and/or Staff have registered with Encore!

The skills of Encore! Volunteers are wide-ranging and impressive, and include expertise in education, engineering, the environment, agriculture, business, technology, health care, and non-profit management, just to name a few. This year, thanks to our Volunteers, Encore! has supplied teacher trainers and development experts to an indigenous NGO in India providing education and training to young girls, and provided organizational development expertise to a non-profit in Swaziland helping children orphaned by AIDS.

Here are the seven steps Encore! Staff needs to follow in order to develop a capacity building project. It is a labor-intensive process but each step is essential, and the positive impact of our projects makes it worthwhile: Continue Reading »

On September 6, 2008, the MorePeaceCorps campaign will be throwing
100 House Parties across the United States. Our goal is to build a bigger,
better, bolder Peace Corps – one that is doubled in budget and worldwide
volunteer base by 2011, the 50th anniversary of the Peace Corps.

Can you help us achieve this goal? Continue Reading »

The weekend of August 22-24, a Peace Corps Reunion entitled “Peace Corps & Friends A Celebration”, is being held in Fort Collins, Colorado. Organized to celebrate our contributions to the world through the work of the Peace Corps, the event is sponsored by Beet Street, an initiative of the Fort Collins Downtown Development Authority, known for its dynamic cultural and arts programming.

Highlights include keynote addresses by Jody Olsen, Peace Corps Deputy Director (RPCV-Tunisia); Kevin Quigley, NPCA President (RPCV-Thailand); and Carl Pope, Executive Director Sierra Club (RPCV-India). Additional keynote speakers, soon to be announced, will also be featured.

The weekend will be dedicated to celebrating where we have been and defining our role in the future. Continue Reading »

     The Fall 2008 issue of WorldView magazine will center on the theme “Peace Corps for the 21st Century.”
    In three years, Peace Corps will celebrate its 50th anniversary. How has it fared in that time? What is its legacy—and its future? Can a bigger, better and bolder Peace Corps be part of an overall “smart power” effort to restore U.S. standing in the world to better help address pressing global problems?
    For this special issue we would like to explore topic areas such as:
· Goals and Models: If Peace Corps was invented now what would it look like, how would it be organized? How does Peace Corps stack up with its competition?
· Partnership: How could Peace Corps be more open to and creative in working with other entities? Continue Reading »

I recently Started Producing New program called ((O))PEN MI(—Sharing the Voice To the World.This program is a part of Himali Swarharu.
This radio program is for everyone for every subject of life/World/Society/People etc.The Medium is Speech/Poetry/Songs/Talks etc .They can speak any Language!
So i would like to request you and your friends to share their Voice through HIMALI SWARHARU...An Online Nepali Radio Program From New York City.I would love to meet and record the Voice … Please be a part of ((O))PEN MI(.
Thank You!

Sahadev Poudel
Producer/Creator, HIMALI SWARHARU
www.nepaliradionyc.com

In conjunction with the Rubin Museum of Art’s current Nepal exhibition, From the Land of the Gods: Art of the Kathmandu Valley, we are hosting a series of talks given by RPCVs who had served in Nepal. They are using the artwork in the exhibit to recall memories and reflect on the experiences they had while living in this beautiful and extraordinary secular Federal Democratic Republic! (Of course, it was a Hindu Kingdom while we were all living there!)

As our series of Nepal RPCV “PeaceTalks” continues, I want to let you all know that the next RPCV presentation at the Rubin Museum will be my own!

My NEPAL “PeaceTalk” will begin at 7pm on Friday evening, July 18th. As a part of this talk series, I Continue Reading »

MorePeaceCorps is not just about bigger, but also better and bolder! Read the following to see if you would like to get involved or if you have suggestions/concerns you’d like to express.

With just 4,000 new PCVs each year, Peace Corps is small. There are 20+ countries including Indonesia, Colombia, and Sierra Leone requesting volunteers and there is no $ to respond! In fact, depreciation of the dollar has hampered sustaining existing programs. There is little question that enhancement will require resources. The campaign is a bold, sequenced, 50-state push to give tail wind to new legislation in 2009 for more resources to Peace Corps. It’s not going to be easy by any means, though Peace Corps has a terrific reputation and no dearth of supporters.

What does “better” mean? Rajeev Goval who wrote this explains it as follows, but he and the National Peace Corps Organization are more curious about what you think: Continue Reading »