Country of Service: Botswana
Place of Service: Mahalapye
Service Project: Middle School Teacher, Developmental & Social Studies
Dates in Service: 1980-1982
Keywords: Community Development, Education, Health, HIV/AIDS, Literacy, Youth

Accession Date: March 24, 2021
Access: no restrictions
Collection Size: .25 linear feet (located in small collections)

Document Types

• Correspondence
• Photographs

Digital Files

• Letters Home from Peace Corps (or, What I did NOT tell my parents)
  • Chapter 1: Introduction, Training, and Village Live-In
  • Ten digitized pictures associated with Chapter 1
  • Chapter 2:  Mahalapye–Moving in and Starting Work (Third Semester 1980)
  • Five digitized pictures associated with Chapter 2
  • Chapter 3: Christmas Break 1980
  • Chapter 4: 1981 First Semester
  • Chapter 5: Vacation in Zimbabwe
  • Chapter 6: 1981 Second Semester
  • Chapter 7: August Break 1981
  • Chapter 8: Third Semester 1981
  • Chapter 9: 1982 First Semester
  • Chapter 10: Safari through Kalahari, Okavango and Zimbabwe
  • Chapter 11: Second Semester, 1982
  • Chapter 12: Vacation July 1982 and Epilogue

Digital Surrogates

• 1 digital collection: https://auislandora.wrlc.org/islandora/object/peacecorps%3A3122

Related Items in Other Repositories

• Coolidge, Jacqueline (1980-1982): Oral History Interview [JFK Library]
• Bare basic mugs [Museum of the Peace Corps Experience]

Finding Aid

1. Correspondence, July 21, 1980-December 2, 1980 
2. Correspondence, December 22, 1980-August 4, 1981 
3. Correspondence, August 13, 1981-July 23, 1982