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Priest's Duty. Indeed he is. A Maryknoll missionary sent to Peru in 1950, Denver-born Father Dan is the founder and treasurer (he turned the presidency over to a Peruvian last year) of the 535-branch Credit Union League, which, with assets of $23 million, is the largest such organization in Latin America. He is president of El Pueblo (assets $8,650,000), Peru's second biggest savings and loan association, and executive vice president of the International Union of Building Societies and Savings and Loan Associations. To thousands of Peruvian peasants, he is simply "Father...
...first attempt at answering that difficult question has been made by a team of anthropologists from Cornell University who have just turned in the first scientific study of the impact of Volunteers assigned to communities in the Peruvian Andes...
Preliminary reports led to a marked increase in language training, improved relations between the Volunteers and Peruvian institutions with which they worked, and modifications of the Peace Corps' training and overseas operations...
Mankiewicz said he believes one of the most important contributions Peace Corps Volunteers such as the Peruvian group make is their role as "witnesses to the condition of the poor among whom they live, prompting the community at large to pay attention to the needs of the poor...
...Volunteers contribute significantly to basic long-term socio-economic development in the Peruvian Andes, creating and strengthening organizations so that they can continue to solve local problems even after the last Volunteer has departed...