Hailing from the southeastern part of the United States, I’m a Peace Corps Volunteer currently residing in the eastern part of Uganda with my PCV husband. We were sworn in as PCV’s on April 22, 2009. We plan to spend the next 2 yrs without electricity, running water in our spatial ironsheet-roof concrete residence with our own pit latrine. In my former life, I graduated from University of Georgia with a degree in Psychology in ‘05. Unable to decide what I wanted to do after I got that handy degree, I pursued a certificate in Montessori Education in Lower Elementary from American Montessori Society. I married a cool engineer (Fractal, of course! that’s not his real name) who enlightens me about solar panels, pyrolysis, biofuels, and gizmos in ‘06. The 3rd continent I’m calling home, I hope living in Africa will add a bit more perspective to my life.
Hello,
I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Benin, West Africa, 1995-1997, and am running a cross-cultural social “experiment” of sorts. We’ve set up think tanks in Ghana, Cuba, El Salvador, Mexico, Ethiopia, and Serbia, and I would love to talk to you about setting up this same exchange in Uganda. In short, the project links specific communities in the US with specific communities in the “developing” world through problem solving. Please email me if you are interested in talking about this further. As an RPCV, I assure you that it is appropriate and sensitive and just the sort of thing I would have been happy to do in my village. Thanks! Christopher Robbins