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Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-ACC-2019-033
Donna Stern Slocum served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras from June 1978 to June 1980 as a community health nurse. After training in Tegucigalpa, she was stationed on Roatan, one of the Bay Islands north of Honduras. She worked at a clinic in Coxen Hole. The local doctor departed after five months and Slocum was left to run the clinic by herself with one other nurse. She worked long days seeing patients, prescribing medicines, treating tropical diseases, and suturing. Slocum also had a health program on the local radio station, Radio Roatan. During her second year, due to burnout and loneliness, she took a short break to work at a yacht club. Interviewed and recorded by Barbara Kaare-Lopez, May 6, 2018. 2 digital audio files (web streaming files combined into 1 file). Please note: Due to a technical issue, the end of the interview is cut off.
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-ACC-2019-032
Barbara Ann Sterling served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras from January 1979 to December 1980 in a rural pilot school program. Her training took place in La Guacima, Costa Rica. She and her husband lived in Taulabe, in the mountainous region of Honduras. Both of them worked to teach rural schools how to establish vegetable gardens and grow crops. In addition, Sterling gave health talks and built improved wood stoves at the schools. The Peace Corps volunteers were also expected to promote a wheat soy blend to improve nutrition, but the product was not accepted by Sterling's community. After the Peace Corps, she pursued a federal career with the Bureau of Land Management. Interviewed and recorded by Barbara Kaare-Lopez, July 15, 2018. 2 digital audio files (web streaming files combined into 1 file).
Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-ACC-2018-019
Cheri Damschroder served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Honduras from 1977 to 1979 as a home economics teacher. She attended training in the capital city, Tegucigalpa. Her college degree was in Spanish, so she didn't need as much language training as others did. However, being able to understand the local people was a challenge. Damschroder was initially stationed in El Paraiso, and then moved to the Escuela Manuel Bonillo school in La Ceiba. There she taught sewing in the practical activities program. Several years after her service, she returned to Honduras with her husband and worked at the Peace Corps training center in Santa Lucia. Interviewed and recorded by Barbara Kaare-Lopez, May 6, 2018. 2 digital audio files (web streaming files combined into 1 file).