NorCal News

Grants Update: TETEA

Posted: 5/9/2013 10:00 AM
NorCal recently received a report from TETEA (Empowering Tanzanians through Education) via Michael Neumann, NorCal member and RPCV/Tanzania, about their library project in Maguu, Tanzania. ... read more

April - Bringing Service Home

Posted: 5/8/2013 12:23 AM
NorCalPCA is dedicated to bringing the Peace Corps spirit of service and education home. Every month we highlight how. ... read more

Mentoring Matters and More!!

Posted: 5/6/2013 9:36 AM
Calling all NorCalPCA mentors, mentees, and interested others for a special event designed to expand, exchange and extend support and resources for RPCVs. Current Peace Corps nominees are also welcome. ... read more

Around the World in 90 Minutes

Posted: 4/7/2013 9:55 PM
Travel the world through photos, clothing, art, music and more from returned Peace Corps Volunteers at one of this year's biggest Bay Area Peace Corps events. RPCVs needed for Santa Cruz on April 24th and in Berkeley on May 1st ... read more

Bringing Peace Corps Service Home

Posted: 4/1/2013 11:36 PM
NorCalPCA is dedicated to bringing the Peace Corps spirit of service and education home. Every month we highlight how. ... read more

Study on Sexual Assaults in Peace Corps

Posted: 4/1/2013 11:25 PM
In 2005, I served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Zambia. During my service I both saw and heard about a number of traumatic events taking place. As a current Doctorate of Psychology student I’m studyin ... read more

Project Keteka Fulfilling the Third Goal

Posted: 4/1/2013 11:18 PM
By Kyle Wiggins (Panama 2010-2012) Co-Founder Keteka 3rd Goal: To Promote a better understanding of host countries on the part of Americans At the one-year mark there is almost a universal feel ... read more

NorCal Website Gets a Facelift

Posted: 3/6/2013 7:51 PM
NorCalPCA’s website has a new look! We have streamlined the homepage and simplified the menu options. We have also added a blog section where you can read the latest news and catch-up on the many or ... read more

RPCV Speakers Bringing Service Home

Posted: 3/6/2013 7:33 PM
Peace Corps Week is a busy time for our speakers bureau. The speakers bureau provides invaluable firsthand accounts of the history, culture and politics of countries around the world. ... read more

Battling with Bottles: Fighting for Education

Posted: 3/3/2013 9:01 PM
by Sarah Sterling (El Salvador, 10-12) Access to education is a problem for most communities in the developing world. Whether it is because the closest school is too far away, or there isn’t enough c ... read more

Next Step Travel - Dominican Republic

Posted: 3/3/2013 8:44 PM
You are doing what I always wish I had done.- my mom said as I boarded a plane to begin my Peace Corps service in 2001. Thus, when the NPCA teamed with Discover Corps to offer “Next Step Travel”, it seemed like a great thing for us to do together. ... read more

Bringing Peace Corps Service Home (Dec-Jan)

Posted: 2/3/2013 7:14 PM
Returned Volunteers brought their service home by volunteering at the Children’s Craft Fair in Oakland on December 8 and packing food at the SF food bank on January 9th. ... read more

2013 Festival of Cultures Recap

Posted: 2/1/2013 10:24 AM
On Jan 26th Peace Corps applicants, nominees, the general public and children from local schools were treated to exhibits, a fashion show, panel discussions and presentations by over 50 returned Peace Corps Volunteers. ... read more

Jan 26th Festival of Cultures/Annual Gathering/Dinner+Chocolate Tasting

Posted: 12/30/2012 2:50 PM
Get your passport stamped! Returned Peace Corps Volunteers will be bringing their service home with exhibits, activities, story hour, fashion show and food. ... read more

Bambara Translation Project Raises over $4,000

Posted: 12/2/2012 3:03 PM
The Dokotoro Project celebrated the Mali translation of Chapters on Pregnancy and Birth and on Local Remedies of Where There is No Doctor. The launch party on Nov 11 served as a fundraising event for the young project. ... read more

Any Member Can Contribute

Posted: 12/2/2012 1:54 PM
Kathy Day kicked off the Holiday Season at the Alameda County Food Bank. We moved several tons of pears, carrots and packaged food in our four-hour shift with the help of volunteers from the First Congregational Church of Berkeley ... read more

2012 NorCal Grants Report

Posted: 11/2/2012 11:51 AM
NorCal Grants Funds awarded $ 2,000 to purchase books for the Maguu Library in Ruvuma, Tanzania and $1,000 to the Youth Ventures Program in Morocco, ... read more

Bringing Service Home

Posted: 10/31/2012 6:57 PM
October was a busy volunteer month with large groups of RPCVs helping fix trails at Point Reyes National Seashore and a home of a Vietnam Vet in Berkeley. ... read more

Huge turnout at Peanut Sauce Competition, Sept 29

Posted: 10/31/2012 5:29 PM
Competition was fierce as the habaneros at the 2012 Annual Peanut Sauce Party with entries from Suriname, Gambia, Mali, Sierra Leone, Togo, Coted’Ivoire, Dominica and Zambia. And the winner was… ... read more

Boys and Girls Club of San Francisco

Posted: 9/1/2012 5:09 AM
Returned Peace Corps volunteers Meg Carter & Mona Khalil spent an afternoon with teens from Boys & Girls Clubs of San Francisco to encourage and expose urban youth to the possibilities in public service. ... read more










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