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Peace Corps volunteers
work to create good will
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SINGBURI, Thailand —Buf
feted by more than 20 years of
turmoil and change, a tiny spark
of the 1960s American idealism
that launched the Peace Corps
lives on in rural Thailand.
Quietly and without fanfare,
young and old Americans con
tinue to volunteer two years of
their lives for the old-fashioned
notion of helping others.
“I sometimes think if I can
just create good will, I’m doing
okay,” said Reed J. Aeschliman,
one of 178 Peace Corps volun
teers serving in Thailand. He is
the only volunteer in Singburi
Province, a rice-growing area 75
miles north of Bangkok.
Aeschliman, 25, grew up on a
farm near Wauseon, Ohio, and
is putting his agriculture back
ground to use as an adviser to
4-H clubs scattered throughout
the province.
“I try to convince the people I
work with that Americans and
foreigners in general are not al
ways right and they have to de
velop their own solutions to
their own problems,” he said.
“I’m not sure I’m always suc
cessful, but I try,” he said.
The Peace Corps currently
has about 5,200 volunteers
working in 64 countries and is
hoping to increase public aware
ness of its work after years of
near obscurity in the United
States, Peace Corps Director
Loret Ruppe said recently.
“The Peace Corps really had
problems during the 1970s be
cause it was coming out of a lot
of misperceptions of the ’60s,”
Ruppe said.
“It was growing, improving
and learning from its mistakes
Quietly and without
fanfare, young and old
Americans continue to
volunteer two years of
their lives for the old-
fashioned notion of
helping others.
done in America, where too
many Americans do not realize
the Peace Corps is alive and
doing tremendous work all
around the world.”
Overseas, she said, people do
not need to be reminded of the
Peace Corps, which has more re
quests for volunteers than it can
fill, especially for engineers and
science and mathematics
teachers.
There also is a constant de
mand for English language
teachers that is much easier to
fill than requests for technical
skills, Ruppe said.
William Landis, of San Diego,
Calif., teaches English at the
Bunnak Phittayakhom in
Chainat Province.
Ruppe, appointed Peace
Corps director by President
Reagan in 1981, said the econo
mic recession and the shortage
of jobs for recent college gradu
ates was a boon to recruitment of
volunteers, especially those with
technical skills,
“We do think economic con
ditions in some ways are helping
us,” she said. “It certainly is
generating more interest. It
helps us in the scarce skills. En
gineers, for example, are not
being snapped up by employers
now due to the economic situa
tion. i
but it had to overcome during
the ’70s the lack of public aware
ness due to the ramifications of
Vietnam and misperceptions of
everyone (in the Peace Corps)
being a hippie.
“I feel our work has to be
A graduate of the University
of California at Berkeley, Landis
teaches English to all grades at
the high school as well as main
taining a wide range of extracur
ricular programs in education
and vocational studies.
“What I’m trying to do now is
to make the community realize
the school is not just for the stu-
tlents,” he said. “I want them to
realize t he library and other faci
lities are for the community as a
whole,” he said.
“We also get a lot of calls and
applications from people who
are unemployed but, unfortun
ately, do not have the skills that
are needed by a volunteer.”
The volunteers who come to
Thailand will not be faced with
unemployment for two years,
but are unlikely to become weal
thy on their monthly stipend of
about $200.
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