Comments on: Where Community Developed Worked in Latin America http://peacecorpsworldwide.org/babbles/2012/10/10/where-2/ John Coyne Babbles is a collection of comments, opinions, musings, and outrages from this RPCV who served with the first group (1962-64) in Ethiopia. Thu, 23 May 2013 12:15:43 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Patricia Edmisten http://peacecorpsworldwide.org/babbles/2012/10/10/where-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2489 Patricia Edmisten Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:40:48 +0000 http://peacecorpsworldwide.org/babbles/?p=6024#comment-2489 Although many of us struggled finding a way to contribute in those early months in Arequipa, Peru, there were just as many who grabbed an opportunity and carried it to fulfillment through health, nutrition, education, and construction projects, as examples. After the disastrous Ica flood in 1963, I was transferred to this town near the coast and worked with other volunteers who were sent from throuoghout the country to help the community rebuild. Despite being trained as a speech therapist, I worked with practical nurse, Ruth Radshaw, who undertook to build a medical clinic for the indigenous population. Our clinic was primitive, but we kept it as clean as we could under the dire circumstances. We would have been arrested here for the services we rendered there, but you couldn't have found a community more grateful for the basic but vital health care we delivered. Although many of us struggled finding a way to contribute in those early months in Arequipa, Peru, there were just as many who grabbed an opportunity and carried it to fulfillment through health, nutrition, education, and construction projects, as examples. After the disastrous Ica flood in 1963, I was transferred to this town near the coast and worked with other volunteers who were sent from throuoghout the country to help the community rebuild. Despite being trained as a speech therapist, I worked with practical nurse, Ruth Radshaw, who undertook to build a medical clinic for the indigenous population. Our clinic was primitive, but we kept it as clean as we could under the dire circumstances. We would have been arrested here for the services we rendered there, but you couldn’t have found a community more grateful for the basic but vital health care we delivered.

]]> By: Joey http://peacecorpsworldwide.org/babbles/2012/10/10/where-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2483 Joey Wed, 10 Oct 2012 16:49:51 +0000 http://peacecorpsworldwide.org/babbles/?p=6024#comment-2483 Community Development is a very complex concept. For some of the factors involved, I would cite, again, Dr. Textor's classic "Cultural Frontiers of the Peace Corps." The section, "Pitfalls and Progress in the Peruvian Sierra," is written by PCV staffer and Anthropologist, Paul L. Doughty and speaks to CD in the Andes during the same timeframe referenced in John's article. It is excellent because it cites some of the factors that contributed to success or failure during that time. My site in Colombia was one visited by Meridan Bennet in 1964. I want to review his evaluation report, again, before I comment. Community Development is a very complex concept. For some of
the factors involved, I would cite, again, Dr. Textor’s classic “Cultural Frontiers of the Peace Corps.” The section, “Pitfalls and Progress in the Peruvian Sierra,” is written by PCV staffer and Anthropologist, Paul L. Doughty and speaks to CD in the Andes during the same timeframe referenced in John’s article. It is excellent because it cites some of the factors that contributed to success or failure during that time.

My site in Colombia was one visited by Meridan Bennet in 1964. I want to review his evaluation report, again, before I comment.

]]> By: FlacoBob http://peacecorpsworldwide.org/babbles/2012/10/10/where-2/comment-page-1/#comment-2482 FlacoBob Wed, 10 Oct 2012 15:35:46 +0000 http://peacecorpsworldwide.org/babbles/?p=6024#comment-2482 ...and we are still doing basic Community Development work, after we get to know the community and they us. Unlike USAID, we build communities not monuments! And the Third Goal is implemented following the principles of Acción Comunal. Hope our Jack Vaughn reads this series...Bob …and we are still doing basic Community Development work, after we get to know the community and they us. Unlike USAID, we build communities not monuments! And the Third Goal is implemented following the principles of Acción Comunal. Hope our Jack Vaughn reads this series…Bob

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