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Friends and nursing colleagues Joanne (74) and Anne (71) discuss Joanne’s experience as a mid-life Peace Corps volunteer in Guatemala, which led to a far-reaching career as a nurse consultant working with the World Health Organization, UNICEF, USAID, and Ministries...
Janet Adams looks back on her time in the Peace Corps teaching kids in South America. She also talks about meeting her husband.
Marianne Apple moved to Fearrington Village just before the beginning of the Covid pandemic. Circumstances brought her here after the nearly simultaneous losses of her husband of 48 years and her mother. She called upon her wealth of resources gained...
Kiwimbi International summer interns Claire (21) and Katherine (20) interview Meshack (16), the recipient of a Kiwimbi scholarship for secondary school. Meshack tells us about his struggles through primary school with neighbors who practiced witchcraft and his experience in secondary...
Kiwimbi International summer interns Claire (21) and Katherine (20) interview Brighton (13), the recipient of a Kiwimbi scholarship to secondary school. Brighton shares a traditional Teso folktale about the hyena and hare—a folktale that was told to him by his...
Kiwimbi International summer interns Claire (21) and Katherine (20) interview Melissa (15), the recipient of a Kiwimbi scholarship to secondary school. Melissa shares about her childhood swimming and gathering water from the river that runs between Amagoro and Kocholia and...
Kiwimbi International summer interns Claire (21) and Katherine (20) interview Maureen (17), the recipient of a Kiwimbi scholarship for secondary school (high school). Maureen shares about being raised by absent grandparents and Kiwimbi’s role in getting her to a competitive...
Kiwimbi International summer interns Claire (21) and Katherine (20) interview Nick (15), the recipient of a Kiwimbi scholarship to secondary school (high school). Nick shares about his childhood being raised by a single mother and grandmother, and his inspiring educational...
[Recorded: Tuesday, March 21st, 2023] Mark (67) and Luke (33) have a One Small Step conversation in Charlottesville, Virginia. Mark opened Charlottesville's hallmark running store, Ragged Mountain Running and coaches running for the community. Luke served in the Peace Corps...
Owen and Bobby muse over topics of literacy, education, service, and life.
My name is Caren, and I met Aladji in Atlanta, Georgia this November 2022. I quickly realized that he has a very very interesting life that I thought would be perfect for StoryCorps. Aladji is from Senegal, and he’s been...
Ana interviewed her older sister, Mariana on the topic of literacy. They discussed Mariana’s journey in becoming numerically literate and how it shaped and impacted her life.
[Recorded: Tuesday, August 30th, 2022] Panagiotis (49) and Liz (78) have a One Small Step conversation in Charlottesville, Virginia. Panagiotis is a professor of computer science at the University of Virginia, and Liz is a Baptist pastor at New Beginnings...
Miriam talks with her grandfather about his life growing up in a Polish-American family in upstate New York, then going to college, serving in the Peace Corps in Chile, and working for the US forest Service.
Jonathan Daube (Northampton, MA) speaks with Selena DeCosta (Easton/Amherst, MA) about his time spent teaching in Malawi and how it shaped his view of the world for the rest of his life.
Kay Wetherwax (77) talks to her grandchild Isabella Kavanaugh (15) about growing up in Piqua Ohio and having divorced parents, going to college as a women and how COVID-19 has affected her.
A chat with an inspiring person that helps people with the use of lights and building greenhouses out of the greater good.
Lawrence Siddal (91) is interviewed by Rachel Behlke (23) about his life, his adventures, and his thoughts. These adventures range from him growing up in Ohio to being drafted to Germany to driving out to India to having to work...
Boyon shares with Will what led her to a career as a nurse practitioner and now has her DNP, working during COVID and being overextended. Her work with the APC mentorship program at Providence.
The adventures of a kid from Brown’s Flat, CA in Berkeley, the Peace Corps, and beyond
Serving in the Army and later, the Peace Corps in subhSaharn Africa in the 1960s.
Jennifer Lind, granddaughter of Rosa T. Beard, talks with Ambassador Larry L. Palmer, former student of Rosa T. Beard and a founding member of the award-winning Rocket Club.