Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2002-016-010
Joel Meister served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Peru from 1964 to 1965 in a school nutrition program. He started with a school breakfast program using Agency for International Development (AID) food supplies, and later branched out into community development. Meister befriended a sixteen year old boy, Alejandro Toledo, who later became the President of Peru in 1999. Interviewed and recorded by Robert Klein, January 22 and February 12, 2002. 2 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).