While serving in Peace Corps with my husband, Ron, we have great difficulty connecting to the internet because of the mountainous terrain. We are serving in a remote and very rural community in Jamaica, nestled near the Blue Mountain Peak. If and...
On April 21, 2011, I took this photo of fellow PCV Peter Pakwasky during our ICT/SED cross-collaboration project. He taught first-time computer users how to use the internet, while I organized logistics. It was a great income generating activity...
technology; Women and Development (WID)/Gender and Development (GAD)
During April 2011, I organized ICT classes for members of my women’s group. First-time computer users, the Cameroonian women learnt how to use the internet and set-up e-mail accounts. It was a great income generating activity for the cyber...
Mark Shriver visits Peace Corps to pay tribute to his father and first director of the Peace Corps, the late Sargent Shriver, on the one-year anniversary of his passing in a speech to special guests and staff at Peace Corps headquarters.