Worldview Magazine - Winter 2007 - (Page 40)

ADVERTISER INDEX American University, School of International Service, 38 American University, School of Public Affairs, 6 Antioch University, Leadership & Change, 33 Brandeis University, Heller School for Policy & Management, 5 Bryn Mawr, Premed Program, 44 The City University of New York, Graduate School of Journalism, 37 Colorado State University, College of Business, 9 Duke University, Nicholas School of the Environment & Earth Sciences, 25 The Farm School, 42 GEICO, 40 George Mason University, School of Public Policy, 27 Goucher College, Post-Baccalaureate Pre-Medical Program, 20 Indiana University, School for Public & Environmental Affairs, 12 Johns Hopkins University, School of Nursing, 22-23 Los Angeles Uni ed School District, 35 Loyola College in Maryland, Washington Montessori Institute, 33 Monterey Institute of International Studies, 41 The New School, Milano School for Management & Urban Policy, 10 NPCA, CafePress, 6 NPCA, Career Center & Dispatches, 30 NPCA, Combined Federal Campaign, 19 NPCA, Planned Giving, 35 Portland State University, School of Business Administration, 31 Sarah Lawrence College, Preparation & Advancement for Careers in Healthcare, 42 Share International, The Emergence, 36 Solio, 32 Southern New Hampshire, School of Community Economic Development, 31 Sunbridge College, Bar eld School, 32 Tech Museum of Innovation, back cover Texas A&M University, Bush School of Government & Public Service, 27 Tulane University, School of Public Health & Tropical Medicine, 5 Temple University, Fox School of Business, inside front cover University of Chicago, School of Social Service Administration, 19 University of Denver, Graduate School of International Studies, 38 University of South Carolina, Moore School of Business, 30 Western Illinois University, Illinois Institute for Rural Affairs, 20 World Learning, School for International Training, 14 “W image. As Peace Corps volunteers we are and will continue to be on the front lines in the work repairing that damage. I have long believed that one of the best ways to improve international understanding would be to triple funding to the Peace Corps, with a goal of increasing the number of Peace Corps volunteers abroad to 20,000. We must make sure the budget is there to ensure quality work and quality experience, and the only way that will happen is if every returned volunteer asks for it. e can’t solve problems Four decades ago, I was urging of unrest and Colombians to prioritize their needs violence with police and petition their government to meet and military,” Mayor Fajardo told us. those needs. I think that the most “We have to use social and economic important job I have now is to oﬀer interventions.” He is right. Unless the that same lesson to my colleagues in the government can ﬁnd a way to enliven Peace Corps community. the spirits of those people who live in President Uribe said he would poverty, combating the welcome the Peace crime in those areas will Corps back into e future not solve Colombia’s Colombia after a 26of the Peace Corps year absence. I will problems. It’s exciting when I ultimately depends work toward that think about the work goal. I am pleased the volunteers did in that he recognizes on all of us Colombia before the the great value of who served in it. country was closed to cultural exchange and Peace Corps volunteers understanding. e in 1981. It’s easy to believe that some future of the Peace Corps ultimately of those children we built schools for depends on all of us who served in it. all those years ago are now leading the I’m proud that this year the Bush country’s social revolution. And I must administration supported full funding admit that they’re reinvesting in their of the Peace Corps budget. But it people a lot better than we’re doing will take a much greater eﬀort to back home. ose lessons were not ﬁnally realize its full potential. As I lost on my daughter, Jessica. It was a encouraged Colombians to get involved powerful personal experience for me to with their government, I encourage ﬁnally show her the places and to meet each Peace Corps volunteer, past and the people I have been telling stories present, to contact the members of about all these years. But it was even their Congressional delegation to tell more gratifying to be able to share with them just how important this legacy is. her the experiences of a new Colombia, It’s the least we can do for the agency a Colombia that continues to evolve. that oﬀered so many of us so much and To show her the wonder of this the world it introduced to us all. community where I lived in 1964 was e author served in Medellin from 1964 the greatest father-daughter experience to 1966, served six years as Monterey I’ve ever had. County supervisor, 12 years in the at experience with another culture California General Assembly and 14 is the key to the peaceful world we’re years in the U.S. Congress representing all seeking, and I ﬁrmly believe the Monterey, San Benito and Santa Cruz Peace Corps has an important role to counties. play in that mission. e last several years have shown us all how easy it can be to destroy a once-treasured national world of how a community ravaged by poverty and hopelessness can embrace a wonderful strategy to build beautiful schools, libraries and parks. Medellin invested in neighborhoods long neglected by the political process, boosting the morale of the people by letting them play a major role in development. My little schoolhouse was demolished, but the city has become an example for countries around the world and cities throughout the United States. 40 Winter 2007

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Worldview Magazine - Winter 2007 Contents President's Note Lafayette Park Note to Readers Commentary Letter from India Commentary Letter from Botswana Letter from Ha Teboho Letter from Jumbi Valley Letter from Mununga Letter from Medellin Giving Back Community News

Worldview Magazine - Winter 2007

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