Word: developed
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...ETHIOPIA The planning, administration, and implementation of the Imperial Highway Authority's program to develop a professional highway department in Ethiopia has been hampered greatly by inadequately trained personnel. Volunteers will aim to improve job skills to Ethiopians in the program...
...NIGER Under the Ministry of Education, Volunteers will travel between villages to teach adults basic literacy in native languages, French and arithmetic. An artist will help develop audio-visual aids. Those under Ministry of Health will work in social centers and rural dispensaries, teaching hygiene, sanitation, infant are, sewing, cooking and literacy. Nurses will teach theoretical and practical work to students at the nursing school in Niamey...
...IVORY COAST Volunteers will teach practical vocational skills at three technical centers in rural areas. These centers develop basic skills in carpentry, masonry, mechanics and metal work so that young men with little or no formal education can meet local requirements for skilled laborers...
...NEPAL Working under the Ministry of Economic Planning and with district Agricultural Development Officers, Volunteers will help develop agricultural cooperatives at village and district levels, aiming to provide credit facilities and improve agricultural techniques and distribution...
When a new Peace Corps program was proposed--chiefdom development instead of specific construction projects--I was asked to begin a pilot program for the Northern Province. The director of the CARE-Peace Corps rural development program patted me on the back (after feeding me) and told me to go out and develop a chiefdom. It's easy to see why I was chosen for this mission: no one really knows what community development entails, 'and who is better qualified for an undefined project than an undefined person...