Archive - April 11, 2012

Back in mid-March we wrote about a Peace Corps film under production entitled, The Whole of the Moon (You can read about it here: https://peacecorpsworldwide.org/a-peace-film/ We have been in touch with Charles Portney (Zaire 1988-90) who is making the film. Portney was a PCV in the fisheries program. After coming home, he spent many years working in film/video production including on The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers and The Return of the King as Production Manager for the music department. He wrote and directed the classic short film The Shop Below the Busy Road which screened at South by Southwest, Madrid Int’l, Black Mariah, San Francisco Int’l. The initial script for this project was finalist in the Nichol Fellowship. He has continued doing volunteer work as well. In 1998 he worked with Mary Knoll Relief Org. In Bangkok, Thailand as an English instructor to refugees from Burma. In 2001-2002 . . .

We are happy to announce that we will have a new blogger on www. peacecorpsworld.org.  Travis Hellstrom (Mongolia 2008-11) will be blogging at: Unofficial Peace Corps. Travis was a PCV and PCV Leader in Mongolia and a year before he left for Peace Corps he began writing what would become the Unofficial Peace Corps Volunteer Handbook which he added to here and there for 4 years until, after his 27th month of service in Mongolia, he published it on Amazon.com. The Unofficial Handbook is the only book available which gives 100% of its profits back to Peace Corps projects worldwide.  Travis is also founder of Peace Corps 101,  a worldwide online course led by Peace Corps Volunteers from around the world, which also donates all proceeds back into Peace Corps through the Peace Corps’ Partnership Program and NPCA’S Global Community Fund! After completing his Peace Corps service, Travis published a second book called  Enough and created the websit Advance . . .