Peace Corps Week 2024: February 25-March 2
To celebrate Peace Corps Week each year, the Western MT RPCVs focus on a local nonprofit to encourage extra support for their mission. Soft Landing Missoula helps our community be welcoming, supportive, and informed, assisting refugees and immigrants to integrate and thrive. Donations can be monetary, in-kind, or as volunteers. Included is a link to the most needed in-kind supplies. If you are so inclined, please contribute in any way you can. The Western MT RPCVs will also do so as a group. Thanks!
Mary Younger WMRPCV Secretary/Treasurer
softlandingmissoula.org/in-kind-donations/
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MONTANA RPCVs with friend, Helen Clark:
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Enjoy the latest World View Magazine
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WMRPCV member Nick Engler (Ecuador 1974-79) passed away from an unfortunate accident last fall. His family contacted our group for suggestions regarding what to do with his extensive collection of art and artifacts from his 5 years in Ecuador. We're happy to say that UM's Montana Museum of Art and Culture (MMAC) was thrilled to accept this impressive group of various types of art. Many thanks to WMRPCV member Tony Hoyt (Liberia 1967-69, Guatemala 1974-75) for contacting MMAC and helping facilitate the transfer.
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Peace Corps Community for Refugees
World Refugee Day 2023!
Around the globe, World Refugee Day celebrates the strength and resilience of individuals who have to flee their homes and find safety in foreign places. Far from burdening those who welcome them, refugees contribute significantly to their new neighborhoods. Today we’re highlighting three small cities in the U.S. that illustrate how refugees transform and enrich their new hometowns. The newcomers have found a place to realize their hopes, and they, in turn, have given these towns economic and population boosts, as well as the bounty of diversity and fresh perspectives.
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Peace Corps Week Celebration a Success!
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It was fun to welcome a new Cameroon RPCV to the group - Lauren Redmore (Cameroon 2009-12). Mbôlô!
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Many congratulations are in order for Peter McDonough, the director of the Climate Change Studies program at the University of Montana in Missoula. UM’s 2022 graduating class voted Peter for the Most Inspirational Teacher Award. Congrats Peter!
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First Peace Corps Volunteers served on August 28, 1961. Peace Corps Director R. Sargent Shriver leads 80 Volunteers who are headed for Ghana and Tanganyka, now Tanzania to the White House where President John F. Kennedy will give them a personal sendoff. JFK thanks them for embarking on their service, "on behalf of our country and. in the larger sense, as the name suggests, for the cause of peace and understanding. "
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January 16, 2020
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Western MT RPCVs - Goat Chase 2019
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Peace Corps recently released its 2019 rankings of the top volunteer-producing states, metropolitan areas, and colleges in the Nation. Montana should be proud to place 3rd in the U.S. per capita with Missoula as 2nd in the ranking for metropolitan areas. The University of MT in Missoula came in 6th for medium-sized colleges and universities. This commitment to service to the global community is admirable!
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