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Stevens began her day long before breakfast. She stays over every Wednesday night at Renewal House, a shelter in Roxbury for battered women, providing counselling and advocacy for women at the shelter. The work fulfills the MDiv requirement of two years of field education. In addition to her Div School responsibilities, she is director of a Quaker summer work-camp for 15-17 year olds called Tamarack Farm, located near Philadelphia...
...Peace Corps will operate has been obscured in the mass of favorable and critical publicity which has received. A recent CBS-TV broadcast presented as a of the Peace Corps films of a team of American students sledge-hammers on a Guinean hillside. Magazine articles newspaper stories about voluntary work-camp projects have blurred the public conception of the Peace Corps and its The image presented in these articles-and the recent Wash- Conference did little to correct it--is of a sort of international with a college diploma. Sooner or later, the Peace Corps will against the inescapable reality...
Peace Corps must be prepared to do a job that cannot be done citizens, and it must be prepared to do it well. Its whole on must be different from that of the short-term work-camp There is no shortage of labor in the underdeveloped world, is a shortage of technical and professional skills, on top and levels. It is these skills which will be requested by foreign and the Peace Corps must address itself to Americans them. A mere desire to serve is sufficient for participants -camp, where good-will is the primary component and the essentially...
...Sized Jobs. The 15 American toilers in Shagamu are part of a 180-student group called Operation Crossroads-Africa, one of the most ambitious and useful summer work-camp ideas yet devised in the U.S. Chosen from 700 applicants, they come from 75 colleges of all kinds and sizes. Nearly half are girls, and the roster includes 25 Southern white students, 35 U.S. Negroes, two U.S. Indians, two Chinese-Americans and 13 Yalemen led by the university chaplain. Many of the students had scholarships to pay their expenses; those who could paid $800, or about half the cost...
...lowest priced program is a Work-camp in Switzerland for $326; the highest a Study Tour in India for $826. Costs include all expenses while on organized phases of the program. Each project has a "free time" period during which students travel wherever they wish...