\t\t\t\tIf you\u2019re interested in learning about Peace Corps experiences in South America, the Friends of Colombia Archive is a great place to start.<\/p>\n
As a member group, Friends of Colombia is an organization of returned Peace Corps volunteers who served in Colombia.\u00a0 The organization\u2019s mission is to unite and provide a community for returned volunteers and staff, as well as actively supporting community-based activities in Colombia.<\/p>\n
Initiated by Tom Bauder, the organization gathered for the first time at the Peace Corps\u2019 25th<\/sup> anniversary conference held in Washington, DC.\u00a0 After Colombia RPCVs in the Washington, DC area met, the group\u00a0formed the Board and elected Bob Colombo as the first president.\u00a0 The group created by-laws and became incorporated as Friends of Colombia, a non-profit organization, in Maryland in 1990.<\/p>\n American University Archives is the home of the Friends of Colombia Archives, established by the organization, as a means for documenting the lives of members during and after their Peace Corps service.\u00a0 The archives include organizational records, biographies of Peace Corps volunteers, correspondence, and newsletters.\u00a0 Individual members\u2019 donations include interviews, photos, letters, publications, and training materials.<\/p>\n Many of the collections included in the Peace Corps Community Archives are from the Friends of Colombia Archive.\u00a0 Be sure to browse the Catalog<\/a> for specific collections\u00a0containing materials from volunteers\u2019 training and service in Colombia.<\/p>\n Sources: If you\u2019re interested in learning about Peace Corps experiences in South America, the Friends of Colombia Archive is a great place to start. As a member group, Friends of Colombia is an organization of returned Peace Corps volunteers who served in Colombia.\u00a0 The organization\u2019s mission is to unite and provide a community for returned volunteers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[524,28,42,65,73,82,85],"tags":[107,192,312],"class_list":["post-468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog-post","category-colombia","category-friends-of-colombia","category-national-peace-corps-association","category-peace-corps-history","category-returned-peace-corps-volunteers","category-southamerica","tag-american-university","tag-finding-aids","tag-rpcv-reunions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468","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=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6840,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions\/6840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.library.american.edu\/pcca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n<\/b>\u201cAbout FOC<\/a>,\u201d Friends of Colombia, (2007)
\n\u201cFriendsPresent<\/a>,\u201d Friends of Colombia, (2007)
\n\u201cSpecial Collections<\/a>,\u201d AU Library, (2014)\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"