Close
Not finding the information you're looking for? Please contact the Archives research staff.
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-ACC-2019-005
Rebecca Madden-Sturges served as a second-generation Peace Corps Volunteer in the country of Georgia from 2005 to 2007 in non-profit development projects. Stationed in Sagarejo, she discusses her early struggle to find meaningful work with the non-profit Spectry organization and Youth House, a cultural center for school-age children to which she was assigned. She discusses her successful fundraising work, which resulted in a Peace Corps Partnership grant and the donation of books to the Youth House, and her more significant impact in obtaining funds from the U.S. State Department and Counterpoint International to renovate the gynecological department in the local hospital. Madden-Sturges also discusses her English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) teaching activities with children and adults; the friends she made while in Peace Corps with whom she is still in touch; her travels in the Georgia region; and her recent activities serving as Secretary of the Boston RPCV group and attending National Peace Corps Association conferences. Interviewed and recorded by Evelyn Ganzglass, August 25, 2018. 1 digital audio file.
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-ACC-2019-150
Melissa Loffler served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Georgia from 2013 to 2015 as a teacher. She completed in-country training in Kvishkheti, then taught English in a combined elementary and secondary school in Khashuri. Loffler talks enthusiastically about the country, Georgian food, and the close relationships she developed with her host families. She remains in touch with these friends and returned to Georgia in 2019. She also talks about friendships with other volunteers, whom she says she wouldn't have gotten to know as well under other circumstances. Loffler conducts an annual Peace Corps event in the Dallas area. Interviewed and recorded by Evelyn Ganzglass, September 10, 2019. 1 digital audio file.
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-ACC-2019-116
Yoomie Huynh served as Peace Corps volunteer in Mongolia from 2007 to 2009 in community youth development. She later also served as a Peace Corps Response volunteer in the Republic of Georgia from 2013 to 2014. She talks about being a first generation immigrant growing up in a poor Vietnamese household in Sioux City, Iowa, and volunteering as a teenager. In Darkhan, Mongolia, Huynh worked as a social worker, assisted the kindergarten program, and taught life skills with the Asian Child Support organization. With Peace Corps Response in Tbilisi, Georgia, she served as a youth program development consultant with the Children and Youth National Center, a public entity under the Ministry of Sports and Youth Affairs. This experience set her on a career path in policy and politics. After the Peace Corps, Huynh worked in Tajikistan for the International Organization for Migration on such issues as human trafficking, child labor, gender issues, and reintegration programs. Interviewed and recorded by Evelyn Ganzglass, July 1, 2019. 2 digital audio files (web streaming files combined into 1 file).