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General conclusion of the study: Peace corpsmen do make a difference. Among the findings is that Peace Corps communities progressed at a rate 2.8 times faster than those communities without volunteers...
...neatly dressed children. Ap Quang Nam's market bustled with black-pajama-clad women, hunkered down to argue prices. One band of men and women sifted gravel to sell to a Danang construction firm-the village's latest self-help project. Each day Navy medical corpsmen held a clinic for boils and bruises, passed out soap, administered an occasional injection...
...ready it for the President. A seven-ton air conditioner, a monarchic double bed, and several cases of Tab and low-calorie Dr. Pepper were sent up. An ancient freight elevator was refurbished for the President's use with red carpeting and plywood paneling from the Philippines. Signal Corpsmen from Pacific Command Headquarters at nearby Camp Smith worked through the night stringing communications wires at the hotel...
...dozen men and women volunteers live in some of the world's most scabrous slums, the hillside favelas outside Rio de Janeiro, where they run medical clinics, teach and do social work. This month, when torrential rains and landslides claimed some 200 favelados' lives in Rio, the Corpsmen helped evacuate stricken families, set up emergency health stations, staffed mass vaccination centers...
Nonetheless, the Peace Corps still appeals to the innate altruism of American youth, and virtually every country to which volunteers have been assigned has welcomed them, asked for more and often given singular send-offs to homebound Corpsmen who have completed their tours of duty. In a remote settlement in Southern India recently, a young Corpsman announced that he would soon be returning to the U.S. to get married. Distraught villagers tried to induce him to stay by offering him anything he might want-including his pick of the local maidens...