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Your TurnREADERS WRITE USLetters to the EditorTo Wofford’s “Third Goal: Yes,No, and Maybe” (WorldView,Summer 2010), I urge adding apoint of political strategy.For too many years, neither PeaceCorps nor the RPCV communitygave priority to nurturing a domesticpolitical constituency. Both isolatedthemselves in cultures of parochialnostalgia, partly, I suspect, becausePeace Corps allowed early partnershipswith many universities and privateagencies to atrophy.We naively ignored history. FDR’sCivilian Conservation Corps succeededdue partly to careful partnering withlocal leaders. Countless programsThank You!Because You Helped Us,We Could Help ThemA Self-help Assistance Programwww.asapafrica.orgCFC No. 10029survive by cultivating support in“iron triangles” of federal agencies,Congressional committees, and interestgroups.By contrast, domestic service leadersunderstand political realities. In themid-1990s, they mobilized universities,private agencies, and beneficiaries toreverse funding cuts. They formed theServiceNation coalition to promotethe Serve America Act. Now theygraciously support NPCA and others inthe ServiceWorld coalition proposingthe Shriver International Service Act.(Harris plays lead roles in both!)So, strategic political reasonssupport Harris’ argument: “Directadministration of . . . overseas projectsby experienced universities and collegesor by non-governmental organizations. . . may be the best and fastest way toachieve Obama’s aim of doubling thePeace Corps….”Robert C. Terry, Jr.(Headquarters 1961Bangladesh 61-63, India 66)RPCV Peter Ross’ Spring2010 response to the coverphoto caption of the Winter2009 edition, “Revitalizing thePeace Corps,” is a surprising slightgiven that the living allowance PCVsreceive is determined as to allow thevolunteer to live as close to the meansocio-economic status of communitycounterparts as possible. But let’s behonest, on average (and for this I canspeak assuredly only for my experienceserving in Peace Corps Paraguay) itstill allows volunteers to live morecomfortably than the vast majority ofhost country nationals in developedsites, especially when one considersthat these are funds that are not onlycounted upon, but dependably andregularly received.It would seem that Mr. Ross, in hisresponse, is suggesting that volunteershire local domestic laborers to allocatea greater percentage of time towardproductive developmental work.While this would certainly allow fordedicating more, and admittedly muchneeded, extra time for one’s project, itwould, in many cases, denigrate culturalintegration in economically strugglingcommunities. In short, if a Volunteeravoids doing as the locals do it makes aPCV’s individual commitment to theSecond and Third Goals exceedinglydifficult. And in Paraguay, what Ms.Morrison-Cooper demonstrates in herphoto is what the locals do in ruralParaguayan communities.Though I commend Mr. Ross forfollowing suit along with his Indiancounterparts in 1963 by takingadvantage of his privileged position inhiring help to complete his domesticchores, I would remind him that“choosing what to do, and what not todo” does not always mean doing whatis best for one’s self. Often “the bigpicture” we are looking at as Volunteersappears different in the mind’s eyes ofthe varied host country nationals thatwe respectably serve.Frederick J. McClelland(Paraguay 08-10)View over 20,000 profiles of peoplewho care about the Peace Corps,plus hundreds of communitygenerated groups.Visithttp://community.peacecorpsconnect.orgtoday!12 WorldView Fall 2010 National Peace Corps Association
From the global village tothe global classroomThe Darla Moore School of Business and the Peace Corps have apartnership that is developing business leaders for our expandingglobal community. The Moore School’s unique Peace Corps Fellow/USAprogram awards returned Peace Corps volunteers a $20,000 scholarship,substantial fee reductions, and work grant salary that allows them towork in underserved U.S. communities during their studies.Show YourPeace Corps Pride!Purchase logo itemsfrom our online storeThe NPCA online store offersa wide selection ofPeace Corps and NPCAlogo merchandise—from t-shirts and coffee mugs,to pins and license plate framesWearing logo merchandise isa great way to spark conversationsabout the Peace CorpsYour purchase supportsthe efforts of the NationalPeace Corps Association.Purchase logo merchandise atwww.cafepress.com/NPCAPeaceCorpsStoreAndy Allen is a former Peace Corps volunteerand 2009 graduate of the Moore School’stop-ranked International Master of BusinessAdministration (IMBA) program.“As a volunteer in Morocco I witnessed the impact ofeconomic and business development on communitygrowth, stability and opportunity. I wanted a graduateprogram with an integral international focus where Icould increase my knowledge of hard businessskills. The International MBA program atthe Moore School was a perfectmatch and provided me with thenecessary cross-culturalskills and experiences tolaunch a career ininternational relations atthe U.S. Department ofState. I was able to focus mystudies on French andeconomic issues in Africa whichled to my current positionin Madagascar.”Andy Allen, IMBA,Political/Economic Officer, U.S. Embassy,Antananarivo, Madagascarmoore.sc.edu • 800.236.6427gradinfo@moore.sc.eduwww.PeaceCorpsConnect.org WorldView Fall 2010 13
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