Peace Corps volunteers Aris Hines , Angelo Baldado, and Emily Mallobe lead a session with students in the Philippines on how to set — and achieve — goals.Peace Corps volunteers Aris Hines , Angelo Baldado, and Emily Mallobe lead a session with students in the Philippines on how to set — and achieve — goals.Some of these evacuated volunteers face an uncertain future. Edretta Coker-Hughes, 41, has no family in the United States except her 16-year-old son, who lives with a friend of hers.
Peace Corps volunteer Aris Hines , with administrators and students he worked with in the Philippines.Peace Corps volunteer Aris Hines , with administrators and students he worked with in the Philippines.But his perspective shifted over the next few days as he realized it didn't make sense for the Peace Corps to keep thousands of volunteers on indefinite hold.
"It's an incredibly harsh reality, but so is this current pandemic," Heyborne says. Being stuck inside is different from being stuck inside without money for groceries, she adds. Peace Corps volunteers being evacuated from Zambia wait on the bus at 4 a.m. on March 19 before a 15-hour drive as an early leg of their long journey home.Peace Corps volunteers being evacuated from Zambia wait on the bus at 4 a.m. on March 19 before a 15-hour drive as an early leg of their long journey home.There's an additional plan afoot to help the volunteers after their abrupt return – and help the country as well.
ninaturner That proposal is inhumane with how much they've done. They need to be allowed unemployment benefits for all the work they've done so that they can actually live out this pandemic. MedicareForAll
ninaturner And these brave patriots will do it without complaints.☮️♥️🇺🇸
While the intent is good, it takes weeks and many times months for long term international volunteers to reacclimate to American culture. Let's reevaluate their own emotional states before repositioning PeaceCorps volunteers like they are armies on a Risk board.
ninaturner Yes, and many had nowhere to go into quarantine. We tried to find places in Burlington VT for several.
ninaturner Because the best way to get volunteers, is to give them no hope.
I feel for these volunteers, especially returning back so suddenly to a brutal, violent, and inhumane culture like the us. It can be a difficult transition from living in a close knit, localized community
There ya go...you wanna go save the world for free...start right here in your own backyard
ninaturner Shouldn't they all be in isolation?
ninaturner My sister and brother in law were among those volunteers!!!
PeaceCorps are you kidding us? No benefits in the middle of a pandemic? Way to treat people who volunteered to help around the world. beBetter
ninaturner I think it's time for all people of the world to dig in on their homeground and let the earth rest. People need to work it out amongst each other. Globalization is coming to an end. Celebrate the respite.
I can smell them through the screen. RIPE
We❤ our peace corps! Be well!
Great...more taxpayer funded welfare recipients thanks to a hysterical populace manipulated with government propaganda! Wake up, Amerika. You are being played. Don't whine when you realize what is going down!
Sounds b like America
this pic stresses me out though
GOP = EVIL
These are the best among us. To put them in harm's way is callous unless they are properly trained. They will go and volunteer if only asked. But we shouldn't ask this of them.
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