Welcome!
Welcome to the first issue of the monthly e-newsletter of the Minneapolis Regional Office of the Peace Corps! We hope you will find it both useful and interesting.
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Using our e-Newsletter
We hope that you will find our newsletter helpful and easy to navigate. Not all of our articles will appear on the main page. To access these articles, select an option from the "Contents" menu at the right of this page. To return to the main page, select "Home". At any point if you want to go to the Peace Corps website, click on the Peace Corps patch next to Peace Corps Horizons at the top of the page.
Thanks for reading!
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Meet our Recruiters!
Do you have questions about Peace Corps? All of the recruiters in our office have been volunteers themselves, and can answer your questions about becoming and being a volunteer. Let’s meet them:
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Alicen Burns has been a recruiter at the Minneapolis office since November 2002. She served as a Health Extension volunteer in Paraguay from 2000-2002.
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Dan MacLaughlin has been a recruiter at the Minneapolis office since February 2003. He and his wife both served as middle school and high school English teachers in Slovakia from 1999-2002. He also worked with university students to help them start community development projects in their own communities.
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Colleen O'Dell has been a recruiter at the Minneapolis office since September 2002. She taught medical English to doctors and nurses in Turkmenistan from 1996-1998, worked with artisans in her community, and taught art and ecology to children.
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LeeAnn Wolf has been a recruiter at the Minneapolis office since June 2003. She worked as a Community Development volunteer in the Dominican Republic from 1991-1994, helping her community develop education programs, including one for adult literacy.
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Andrew Manos has been a recruiter at the Minneapolis office since June 2003. He worked as a Small Business Enterprise Development Business Advisor in Ghana, West Africa. During his time in Ghana, Andy worked with local Non-Government Organizations (NGOs), the Ghana Tourist Board, and host country nationals to develop the Sacred Crocodile ponds in Paga, the Upper East Region of Ghana.
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Roxanne Denysiuk has been a recruiter with the Minneapolis office since June 1999. She served in the Ukraine from 1995-1997 as a volunteer, and from 1997-1998 as a volunteer leader. Roxanne worked in Small Business Development at the municipal level, and worked with youth in theater productions.
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Simone Bramble has been a recruiter with the Minneapolis office since September 2000. She served as an Agriculture Extension volunteer in Mali from 1998-2000, working with community gardens.
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Stacy King has worked as both a recruiter and recruitment coordinator at the Minneapolis office since 2000, and worked briefly as a technical trainer in Nepal in 2002. She served as an Urban Planning and Community Development volunteer in Nepal from 1996-1998. Stacy worked at the municipal level, and developed projects for adult literacy, health, and sanitation. She also helped establish a school library.
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Picture This
by Andrew Manos
Have you ever wondered what unique situations you may find yourself in as a Peace Corps volunteer? Each issue, we will give you a possible scenario that may challenge your ideas of how you should respond. Some scenarios are merely possibilities, others have really happened. Remember, though, that any of them could happen.
Imagine you are doing your Peace Corps training in Africa, and you are staying with a local family for 3 months. Your home stay mother takes 2 hours to find the food, 1 hour to prepare it, and when it is served to you, you notice that the fish is looking right at you. What do you do?
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