Peace Corps will be a featured program at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington, D.C.
RPCVS are invited to gather with each other to share their stories and memories at the 2011 Smithsonian Folklife Festival on the National Mall in Washington D.C. Each country will have a specific time to gather (find your country of service meeting time) but RPCVs are encouraged to participate at any time during the Festival.
Peace Corps Staff: Past and Present, Poland, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Hungary, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Ukraine, Moldova, Romania, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Albania, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan & Russia will have separate meeting times on Saturday July 9, 2011
The RPCV reunion area of the festival, known as the RPCVillage, will feature conversation facilitators, an opportunity to record an oral history, a discussion stage, message boards, and a “wish tree” to send messages of good will to present and future volunteers and messages of remembrance to friends we’ve lost. All Festival events are free and open to the public.
To learn about other elements of the festival including discussions, demonstrations, and performances please visit http://www.festival.si.edu/ or contact Program Coordinator Jason Bowers, bowersj@si.edu. To learn about other ways to be involved in the festival visit http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=about.fiftieth.
Please join The UNITE Foundation for an evening of toasting 50 years of Peace Corps Volunteers and celebrate the kick-off of another summer of Camp UNITE. Founded by Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, the UNITE Foundation supports youth development and life skills education in Togo, West Africa. Our organization makes possible a life skills summer camp for Togolese adolescents called Camp UNITE.
Run by Togolese non-profits, this four week-long summer camp provides nearly 200 Togolese youth with the opportunity to learn about HIV/AIDS prevention, gender equity and the importance of education and family planning. The UNITE Foundation exists because Togolese youth lack opportunities to develop critical life skills. For the last ten years, Camp UNITE has provided thousands of young people with a lifetime of memories through this unique experience. The foundation’s financial support of Camp UNITE helps each camper reach their own individual development goals, which in turn contributes to the advancement of Togo as a whole. To learn more about the UNITE Foundation, please visit www.unitefoundation.org
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