Sunday, May 20, 2007

Peace Corps Assignment--May 20, 2007

After years in the application process and countless hours of
speculating, we finally know our Peace Corps country of service. This
July, we will begin a 27 month tour in BENIN, a small country
located between Togo and Nigeria along the former slave coast.

Jaren will work as a public health advisor while Steve will be acting as a
small enterprise development advisor. We will spend three months
training in a training center (likely Cotonou, the commercial center of
the country), to be followed by two years in a village.

For more info on Benin, check out:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benin
https://cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/bn.html

Also, this is a blog of a Peace Corps volunteer currently in Benin.
This is probably the best window into our upcoming experience we can
provide:

http://overinbenin.blogspot.com

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