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Normally I prefer short articles, but this one had me particularly interested, and was disappointed that it was so short. I would have been interested in learn
by steve8918 14y ago
Normally I prefer short articles, but this one had me particularly interested, and was disappointed that it was so short. I would have been interested in learning more about the things the author experienced.
To be honest, there was the article that came out recently, I think it was posted on HN, that talked about how when Peace Corp volunteers got raped, the Peace Corp would essentially blame the victim and not help them in any way. This portrayed the PC in a really bad light, so I was interested in what ways the Peace Corp appealed to the author.
- bobochan 14y agoWhat? I have not seen the article, and obviously I can't vouch for every single staff person in a global organization, but that is a very serious accusation. The PC staff members that I knew put PCV safety as their top priority. I was involved in evacuating a volunteer from a situation that involved getting landing permission for a emergency med flight out of South Africa, a scrambled French military helicopter flight with PC medical staff and the coordination of dozens of people and three governments. When a volunteer is in danger then it is an all hands on deck situation.
- steve8918 14y agoSorry, it wasn't HN it was reddit that I saw the article. A woman had an AMA about it: http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/uj3ym/iama_former_peace_corps_volunteer_that_was_raped/ http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/uj3ym/iama_former_peac... The most shocking aspect of this was how the Peace Corps did nothing to help her afterwards, and even basically blamed her. There was a more broad news article on this problem, here's one from last year: http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/peace-corps-gang-rape-volunteer-jess-smochek-us/story?id=12599341 http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/peace-corps-gang-rape-voluntee...