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Vice President Biden meets with Costa Rica Peace Corps Volunteers
San Jose, Costa Rica, April 1, 2009 - U.S. Vice President Joe Biden, accompanied by his wife, Dr. Jill Biden, met with and thanked Peace...
Mason Richards
Apr 1, 20091 min read
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Dream Assignment
Dear Fellow RPCV,Peace Corps was a life changing experience for me and I wish to give back by using my experience and abilities as a...
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Mar 31, 20091 min read
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Janet Jagan dies at 88
Janet Jagan, a Chicago nursing student who became Guyana's first white and first female president decades after immigrating to the...
Mason Richards
Mar 30, 20091 min read
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Serve America Act passes in the Senate
The Kennedy Serve America Act will: Expand opportunities for people to serve at every stage of life. Use service to meet specific...
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Mar 26, 20092 min read
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Mar 25, 20090 min read
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United States Senators Consider Serve America Act This Week
I wrote on The New Service blog today that national service is a popular way to give back. More than that, it is effective and...
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Mar 24, 20091 min read
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Mar 24, 20090 min read
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Mar 23, 20090 min read
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New video shows British hostage Peter Moore in Iraq
The British Embassy said Sunday it has received a new video showing one of five British hostages seized by gunmen from Iraq's Finance...
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Mar 23, 20091 min read
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Mar 19, 20090 min read
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Peace Corps Madagascar Evacuated
Today, the AP reported that the Peace Corps Madagascar is evacuating its 112 members after political unrest in January produced a...
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Mar 19, 20091 min read
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Kansas City entrepreneurs give $800,000 for Guyana village
Kansas City entrepreneurs Joe and Judy Roetheli, who sold one of the world’s most successful dog treat companies two years ago, are...
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Mar 18, 20092 min read
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USAID Program Has Helped Curb Spread of HIV in Guyana
Guyana's Health Minister Leslie Ramsammy said recently that a U.S.-supported HIV/AIDS prevention program has helped to reduce the...
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Mar 17, 20092 min read
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Mar 13, 20090 min read
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Idealist and Reddit are launching IdealistNews
Reddit is a "social news" service where users submit stories and site community votes on the submissions. Based on those votes the...
Mason Richards
Mar 5, 20091 min read
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Idealist and Reddit are launching IdealistNews.com
Reddit is a "social news" service where users submit stories and site community votes on the submissions. Based on those votes the...
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Mar 5, 20091 min read
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Two U.S. Adventure Television Shows feature Guyana
The U.S.-based television shows, Birding Adventures and Reel Adventures, recently aired five episodes that were filmed in Guyana in...
Mason Richards
Feb 27, 20091 min read
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GUY 21 Peace Corps volunteers arrive in Guyana
The 21st batch of Peace Corps volunteers arrived in Guyana on Tuesday to serve for two years.According to a press release the 33...
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Feb 26, 20091 min read
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Problems with the 2009 Peace Corps Budget
http://www.whitehouse.gov/contact/ You may have already heard that the Continuing Resolution for 2009 budgets just $340 million for the...
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Feb 26, 20093 min read
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Wishbone Project still bringing smiles to kids
For over four years the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital Wishbone Project has given children their smiles through cleft lip and cleft palate...
Mason Richards
Feb 25, 20093 min read
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Peace Corps May Return to Indonesia
Indonesia, the world's most populous Muslim nation, is the second stop in Clinton's inaugural overseas trip as the top U.S. diplomat. She...
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Feb 23, 20091 min read
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Feb 23, 20090 min read
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A Message from Global Sisterhood
A little over two years ago, post-Peace Corps, and post-graduate school, I launched Global Sistergoods ( www.globalsistergoods.com ). We...
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Feb 21, 20091 min read
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