The Fourth Goal?

Every Peace Corps Volunteer (PCV)’s experience is unique and challenging.  Facing the unknown, learning a language (or two), developing sensitivity to very different cultures, growing new relationships, identifying and completing projects, and overcoming physical difficulties are but a few of the tasks that PCVs face.  When they return home, their stories tend to revolve around the experiences they had during their service and the impact they had in the countries they served.  But service in the Peace Corps also affects the United States in ways that are equally important to document. The Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Oral History Archival Project (OHAP) has been collecting the stories of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCV) through individual interviews since 1997.  OHAP currently has over 700 audio recordings of interviews archived in the John F.... Read more