{"id":414,"date":"2014-02-19T15:24:36","date_gmt":"2014-02-19T20:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/?p=414"},"modified":"2023-04-07T14:11:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T18:11:58","slug":"peace-corps-community-archives-milestones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/peace-corps-community-archives-milestones\/","title":{"rendered":"Peace Corps Community Archives&#8217; Milestones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tThe Peace Corps Community Archives (PCCA) began at American University in spring 2013.\u00a0 During its short existence, more than 12 collections have been added to the Archive.<\/p>\n<p>Included below\u00a0are a few fun statistics about what you can find in our PCCA collections (<i>Note: Numbers refer to number of individual collections.).<\/i><\/p>\n<p>17 Men, 10 Female<\/p>\n<p>A few of the collections document the work of volunteers who served with their spouse.\u00a0 Most volunteers, however, entered as single, young adults.<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Most Common Types of work:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>education<\/li>\n<li>health and sanitation<\/li>\n<li>community development<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Countries where Volunteers Served:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>Colombia- 11<br \/>\nNigeria- 5<br \/>\nPhilippines- 2<br \/>\nIndia- 2<br \/>\nParaguay- 1<br \/>\nBelize- 1<br \/>\nThailand- 1<br \/>\nFiji- 1<br \/>\nAfghanistan- 1<br \/>\nAntigua- 1<br \/>\nUkraine- 1<br \/>\nSuriname- 1<\/p>\n<p><b><span style=\"text-decoration: underline\">Decade of Service:<\/span><\/b><\/p>\n<p>1960s- 21<br \/>\n1970s- 4<br \/>\n1980s- 0<br \/>\n1990s- 0<br \/>\n2000s- 2<br \/>\n2010s- 1<\/p>\n<p>We are excited about the diverse and interesting collections currently available for the public to use, but we would also love your help to keep the Archive growing.\u00a0 We are always looking for collections to add to the PCCA.\u00a0 If you can help fill in the gaps, or are interested in finding a home for your collection of Peace Corps materials, please contact us by email at <a href=\"mailto:archives@american.edu\">archives@american.edu<\/a> or by phone (202) 885-3256.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Peace Corps Community Archives (PCCA) began at American University in spring 2013.\u00a0 During its short existence, more than 12 collections have been added to the Archive. Included below\u00a0are a few fun statistics about what you can find in our PCCA collections (Note: Numbers refer to number of individual collections.). 17 Men, 10 Female A [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524,65,67],"tags":[107,339],"class_list":["post-414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post","category-national-peace-corps-association","category-news","tag-american-university","tag-statistics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=414"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6811,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/414\/revisions\/6811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}