April 7, 2020 – Peace Corps Worldwide

SWAHILI ON THE PRAIRIE – A film by David Goldenberg (Kenya)

Apr 07 2020

Thanks for the ‘heads up’ from Bob Gribbin (Kenya 1968-70) David Goldenberg (Kenya 1968-70) has produced a documentary film about his training group and service overseas. This training program was one of the last to be done in the U.S. Goldenberg’s film premiered in North Dakota last January because that is where they trained and where it all began. You can find Swahili on the Prairie at Vimeo. After the Peace Corps, David received his PhD from Brown University in anthropology and then had a long career working for (primarily child-focused) NGOs. He worked for Plan International for about 15 years and then was a consultant for Plan, CARE, Save the Children, and other agencies. He started making documentaries about 20 years ago. In the build up to his group’s 50th anniversary in 2018, he decided to make a film about their experience. He traveled around the . . .

RPCV Peter Navarro (Thailand) warned Trump of pandemic

Apr 07 2020

Trade Adviser Warned White House in January of Risks of a Pandemic A memo from Peter Navarro (Thailand 1972-75) said failure to contain a coronavirus outbreak could lead to hundreds of thousands of deaths and trillions of dollars in economic losses. It is the most direct warning known to have circulated at a key moment among top administration officials. By Maggie Haberman Published April 6, 2020 New York Times Updated April 7, 2020, 12:46 a.m. ET A top White House adviser starkly warned Trump administration officials in late January that the coronavirus crisis could cost the United States trillions of dollars and put millions of Americans at risk of illness or death. The warning, written in a memo by Peter Navarro, President Trump’s trade adviser, is the highest-level alert known to have circulated inside the West Wing as the administration was taking its first substantive steps to confront a crisis . . .

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