Monthly Archives: February 2004

Peace Corps volunteer safety and security

By Scott Wallick | Published: Feb 24, 2004
The last thing that I wrote about safety and security got my Web site shut down by the Peace Corps Washington, DC, office. Perhaps it's just a coincident that my predictions (or rather, intelligence collected) about the security situation in the Rautahaut, Bara, and Parsa districts have come true, much to the frustration of the Peace Corps Kathmandu office. Not that it matters. The fact is that we PCVs are ourselves responsible for our safety. How can someone expect someone else to take care of them?
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What I did

By Scott Wallick | Published: Feb 11, 2004
Somehow we came up with idea over dinner. I had just arrived in Birtamod, Jhapa, to visit Andrew one last time before our lives as PCVs. I was going to stay for a night, maybe two, before heading back to Birganj. Anyhow, we were having dinner, and Andrew was talking about the school visits he would be making the next day: a short in-and-out trip to invite two English teachers to an upcoming training.
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Closing ceremonies

By Scott Wallick | Published: Feb 1, 2004
I was in Birtamod just after the Thanksgiving trip to Kolkata. I was having lunch with two guys from the Peace Corps office in Washington, DC. They were security. On guy told me that he had been doing, well, military intelligence in Somalia for a several years before retiring and coming to work for the Peace Corps. He told me that when Peace Corps has had to evacuate its volunteers from a country, it's usually because of families calling the office. Or a senator.
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