To the friends and family of recently evacuated Peace Corps volunteers — Katie Hamlin (Madagascar)
As seen on the Ethiopia and Eritrea RPCVs Facebook page — To the friends and family of recently evacuated Peace Corps volunteers by Katie Hamlin (Madagascar) Midwest to Madagascar.blogspot • As most people know, this week Peace Corps worldwide made the difficult decision to evacuate and early COS (close of service) all volunteers around the world. Many of us only had a couple days to say our goodbyes while some didn’t even get the chance at all. The evacuation process isn’t easy and the processing of returning to America so abruptly is even harder. So many feelings and emotions are happening all at once along with the upcoming reverse culture shock. In general reverse culture shock is often the hardest part of people’s services and that is even when they have had time to prepare. This new group of volunteers were abruptly sent home and now we don’t . . .
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Hopefully Ken Hill is proven right and volunteers will be given the opportunity to return to their assigned countries, soon.…