Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2006-007-001
Benjamin W. Bellows served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador from 1997 to 2000 on an animal production project. Ben grew up on a diary farm in Michigan and earned a degree in economics and history at the University of Michigan. He trained in-country concentrating on language with field training in agriculture. He was assigned to the village of Chiguinda near the Amazon basin and worked as a veterinarian. In his third year, he was a volunteer coordinator at the Peace Corps office in Quito. Interviewed and recorded by Robert Klein, September 18, 2005. 2 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).