Archive - January 26, 2020

What global issues do you care most about? Which do you think the Peace Corps community is in the best position to help address and affect real change? These are among the critical questions National Peace Corps Association is asking in a short survey. Your input will help us identify the global issues our community cares about most and the actions we might take together to address them.   Please take a few minutes to take the survey prior to January 31 and be eligible to win a free trip to Peace Corps Connect 2020 in Seattle.   Thank you, Glenn   Survey URL: http://highpoint.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_4HhxY1D9SJ3tzb7   Glenn Blumhorst RPCV Guatemala (1988-91) President and CEO

Thanks for the ‘heads up’ from Arnold Zeitlin (Ghana 1961-63)     Wuhan, China — U.S.Consul General RPCV Jamie Fouss (Samoa) Jamie Fouss(Samoa 1981-83) arrived in Wuhan to serve as the Consul General in August 2017. His previous postings have been in Taipei, Beijing, Guangzhou, Dhaka, and Hyderabad. Prior to joining the Department of State, Jamie worked for five years at the Philippine Refugee Processing Center (PRPC), preparing Southeast Asian refugees to resettle in the United States. He also worked with Peace Corps for several years as a country desk officer at Peace Corps headquarters and then associate director in Western Samoa—where he had served as a volunteer—and country director in the Marshall Islands. Jamie has also worked as a cross-cultural training curriculum developer with Berlitz Cross-Cultural and later with Training Management Corporation in Princeton, New Jersey. Jamie grew up in a military family and graduated from high school in . . .