Category Archive: Peace Corps

Last February, shortly after I gave a presentation on my Community Needs Assessment at In-service Training, Alex came to me and said, “I want you to come to my post and help me start a disability group and train healthcare workers to work with persons with disabilities.”  Alex mentioned to me that in his compound, […]

About two months ago when I learned that I would be returning to Mengong where I lived for the first two months in Cameroon for training to give a presentation to a group of new volunteers who arrived in Cameroon last September, I immediately informed the host family with whom I stayed in Mengong that […]

For many years, I ran a successful blog on cochlear implants and hearing loss.  About eight years ago, a mom who was born deaf contacted me by e-mail through my blog.  She recently gave birth to a son who was also born deaf.  The mother never received a cochlear implant and she primarily communicated in […]

About a year ago when I visited a Peace Corps Volunteer’s post, two Peace Corps Volunteers who were about to finish their service proudly showed me the new water pump that they just built at a local primary school in their village with the funds that they raised by themselves.  They also built a hand […]

Last Sunday, I did another malaria workshop but this time, it was with a large group of blind people.  All of these people were totally blind and using white cane.  Before meeting with the group, I did know that I would have to make some adjustments to how I would teach them because they cannot […]