So I wrote this on my Medium Page. See there for the full write up…
I am a returned Peace Corps volunteer that served in Niger and Guinea from 2010 to 2012. I a
m very familiar with evacuations because all 99 volunteers in Peace Corps Niger were evacuated in January 2011 and the program never reopened. It was not a pleasant time and I was one of the lucky few who got a direct transfer to Guinea. Now all volunteers, all over the world are being pulled. This is unprecedented.
Many people don’t know that I actually wrote my Master’s paper (my first Masters) on the Peace Corps. It was called: The Peace Corps: U.S. Soft power and Youth Idealism.
Instead of just giving my thoughts about this evacuation, which can be summed upthrough what I already posted on my Facebook page:
Salone Creatives 