[ti:Peace Corps Volunteers Find a Wired World]
[ar: Steve Ember]
[al:Education Report]
[by:www.21voa.com]
[00:00.00]This is the VOA Special English
[00:03.23]Education Report.
[00:05.17]Next year, the Peace Corps
[00:07.36]will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary.
[00:10.20]Peace Corps volunteers
[00:12.49]are Americans who teach and work
[00:16.17]on projects in developing countries.
[00:19.60]The United States created
[00:21.84]the Peace Corps during the cold war
[00:24.63]with the Soviet Union.
[00:26.53]Today, technology has changed
[00:29.57]how the volunteers do their work
[00:32.85]and stay connected with friends
[00:35.59]and family back home.
[00:37.53]In the early nineteen eighties,
[00:40.27]Gordy Mengel served in Zaire,
[00:43.85]now the Democratic Republic of Congo.
[00:46.79]Letters from home
[00:48.98]would take weeks, or months.
[00:52.10]As a result, he socialized
[00:54.94]more with people
[00:56.13]in the local community.
[00:58.47]He lost contact with friends
[01:01.06]and family back in the States.
[01:03.65]Today, Gordy Mengel
[01:06.58]is a Peace Corps programming
[01:08.77]and training officer in Rwanda.
[01:11.86]GORDY MENGEL: "These days
[01:12.65]with the advent of the Internet
[01:14.26]and cell phone service and so forth,
[01:16.15]I still see volunteers
[01:17.79]having some of that experience.
[01:19.28]But again, when they go back
[01:21.37]to their homes, instead of
[01:22.27]turning out the kerosene light
[01:23.71]and going to bed, they can get on Skype
[01:25.65]or they give a quick call
[01:26.75]to Mom and Dad back at home.
[01:28.69]And that part of the experience,
[01:30.38]I guess, has changed."
[01:31.39](SOUND: Call on Skype)
[01:36.21]SONIA MORHANGE: "Hey!"
[01:37.21]FRIEND: "What¡¯s going on?
[01:38.26]I¡¯m connecting my webcam."
[01:39.36]SONIA MORHANGE: "Oh, awesome,
[01:41.10]I¡¯ll get to see you as well."
[01:42.59]FRIEND: "I look like a mess right now.
[01:44.88]I was gonna get ready, but ... "
[01:46.03]SONIA MORHANGE: "Did you just wake up?"
[01:46.92]FRIEND: "Can you see me?"
[01:47.87]SONIA MORHANGE: "Yeah, I can see you."
[01:49.01]Sonia Morhange is one of
[01:51.70]about one hundred Peace Corps
[01:53.54]volunteers in Rwanda.
[01:55.13]She talks with a friend
[01:57.13]in California on Skype,
[01:59.31]an Internet calling service.
[02:01.50]She talks with her mother
[02:03.50]on the phone and e-mails her father.
[02:06.48]SONIA MORHANGE: "I can¡¯t imagine
[02:07.83]having been a Peace Corps volunteer
[02:10.02]in the seventies or the eighties
[02:11.37]or even the early nineties.
[02:12.51]I¡¯m just so used to everyone
[02:13.76]having a cell phone
[02:14.65]that works internationally.
[02:15.85]I¡¯m very, very lucky
[02:17.84]in the fact that where I live
[02:19.03]I have wireless Internet
[02:21.17]and that makes it a lot easier."
[02:23.82]Peace Corps volunteers
[02:26.56]receive a living allowance
[02:28.80]and other benefits in return
[02:31.38]for twenty-seven months
[02:33.32]of training and service.
[02:35.57]John Reddy is the country
[02:38.31]director in Rwanda.
[02:40.15]He says fairly easy access
[02:43.59]to the Internet means that
[02:45.88]volunteers can do more
[02:47.82]than just call home.
[02:49.91]They can research subjects
[02:52.20]to help their communities.
[02:54.30]And, through the Peace Corps
[02:56.54]Partnership Program,
[02:58.03]they can get donations online
[03:00.77]for their projects.
[03:02.51]But John Reddy admits
[03:05.19]he sometimes misses the old days,
[03:08.54]before the Internet
[03:09.98]and good phone service.
[03:12.07]He says volunteers
[03:14.81]had more independence.
[03:16.75]JOHN REDDY: "It¡¯s not always
[03:17.80]helpful to Peace Corps staff.
[03:19.59]If a volunteer is telling
[03:21.96]their family they¡¯re having
[03:23.00]a bad day or a bad week,
[03:24.34]and then the family member
[03:25.69]calls Peace Corps Washington
[03:26.93]and Peace Corps Washington calls me
[03:28.62]and I have to find the volunteer
[03:30.66]and see what the problem was."
[03:33.30]And that¡¯s the VOA Special English
[03:36.45]Education Report,
[03:38.14]available online at 51voa.com.
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[03:50.48]at VOA Learning English.
[03:53.57]I¡¯m Steve Ember.
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