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Kim in Mongolia

life as a Peace Corps Volunteer

Welcome to Mongolia

My sister Kendra, Me, My Mom
July 2004

Current title: Peace Corps Volunteer
Date of arrival in country: June 6, 2003
Close of service date: June 25, 2005
Current residence: Tsetserleg City,
Arhangai Aimag, Mongolia
Peace Corps assignment: Women's Council NGO

Currently am at site serving as an NGO (non-governmental
organization) volunteer. I work with the Women's Council
of Arkhangai. Our office currently serves two projects. One a savings and loan co-op for poor women who own a small business, funded by the Italian Foreign Ministry. The other through the Mongolian Agricultural Department, as a means to teach about business and health-related topics to herders.


March 1, 1961 — "Life in the Peace Corps will not be easy. There will be no salary and allowances will be at a level sufficient only to maintain health and meet basic needs. Men and women will be expected to work and live alongside the nationals of the country in which they are stationed — doing the same work, eating the same food, talking the same language.
 
But if the life will not be easy, it will be rich and satisfying. For every young American who participates in the Peace Corps — who works in a foreign land — will know that he or she is sharing in the great common task of bringing to man that decent way of life which is the foundation of freedom and a condition of peace."

~President John F. Kennedy
Statement upon signing Executive Order 10924 establishing the Peace Corps


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Date Last Updated: March 12, 2005