Crisis Corps update

The Peace Corps recently opened multiple HIV/AIDS Technical Assistant positions throughout Malawi . The full position description is available at www.friendsofmalawi.org. Please read it over and contact Christina Breuer cbreuer@peacecorps.gov as soon as possible if you think you may be qualified, interested, and available for this assignment. The expected departure for this assignment is December 2007. The recruitment process consists of a phone interview, reference checks and medical and legal clearance. The entire recruitment and placement process can take up to 8 weeks. If you are interested, it is important that you act quickly.
For a complete list of open Crisis Corps positions go to www.peacecorps.gov/crisiscorps. If you have not been in contact with Crisis Corps in the recent past and would like to update your application, please send an updated resume to crisiscorps@peacecorps.gov.

Xmas in October

Here's the much delayed final update from Bruce on Christmas in October. Photos are below. To view them better, simply click on them.
Our combined volunteer teams finished the two week project on time and in glorious fashion (so I'm biased). The final coats of exterior paint were applied Saturday, blue "swimming" for base color, white for trim, and a grey-brown for concrete. Even some of the guys from the "hood" remarked how well the house looked. I especially thank our other volunteer teams, the USDA-SRRC and the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine teams, for sending such able-bodied volunteers.


The combined volunteer teams managed to scrape and prime the entire exterior of the project house this past Saturday. I thank all of you who volunteered to keep our efforts on time. Besides painting, damaged weatherboard was replaced and one door frame was upgraded.

October 13, 2007

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I feel like there's gotta be some joke here about how many RPCVs it takes to paint a house, but I'm not that smart.

October 13, 2007

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Kneeling before the paint gods.

October 13, 2007

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Painting in the cool shade of the porch.

October 13, 2007

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Workin hard?

October 13, 2007

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Lookin good, working hard

October 13, 2007

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So many busy bees, turning blue.

October 13, 2007

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Taking care of the most important part of any volunteer effort: the free food.

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Xmas in October, the second day

RPCV's Film up for award

New Orleans filmmaker Nina K. Müller-Schwarze's (RPCV Panama, 1999-2001) film Diablos Rojos has been nominated for two awards at the Royal Anthropological Institute film festival.
Please come celebrate at a re-showing of the film. [Highly recommended]
Sunday, October 14, 2007
7 PM
Asian Pacific Café
3125 Esplanade Avenue
New Orleans, Louisiana 70119

(Diablos Rojos; Los Buses de Panama describes bus art and examines globalization and cultural identity through the symbol of the Panamanian painted bus. Spanish w/English subtitles.
You can actually buy copies of the film here.
Asian Pacific Café is one of New Orleans' most innovative restaurants. Chef Amy cooks up Hawaiian, Philippines, Japanese and New Orleans fusion dishes. The restaurant also boasts a sushi bar, a sake bar, an outdoor movie theater, and a goldfish pond.


-From Bruce Ingber

XMAS again

There will be more Christmas in October fun this weekend. If you're interested in details of who this is benefiting, see the below post on it. This time, be warned, photos will be taken and posted here. And this time it will be just a painting day.
If you can carpool, i.e. pik up a bunch of college kids and take them there, meet at the the PJs at Willow and McCallister Uptown at 7:45 a.m. on Saturday.