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Celebrating Five Decades of Peace Corps Service to MoroccoMonday, March 22, 2010 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (ET)Washington, DC |
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March 22, 2010 : Celebrating Five Decades of Peace Corps Service to Morocco
Hosted by the Tangier American Legation Institute for Morocco Studies (TALIM) and the Friends of Morocco
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
The Johns Hopkins University
Room 500 Bernstein Office Building 1717 Massachusetts Ave., N.W. Washington, D.C. 20036
6:30 to 7:00 pm Networking; 7:00 to 8:00 pm Program; 8:00 to 8:30 pm Networking.
Refreshments available before and after the Program
Chair: Tim Resch, President, Friends of Morocco, timresch@gmail.com 703 470 3166
This event is part of the Washington Moroccan-American Club 20th Anniversary Celebration with 20 events in 20 days in March 2010.
The Peace Corps/Morocco Memorandum was signed in May 1962 and the first Peace Corps volunteers in Morocco started service in February 1963. Over the last five decades over 4000 Americans have done two years of service in Morocco in a wide diversity of disciplines and locations. 250 volunteers are currently serving in what is Peace Corps second largest country contingent. Currently, Volunteers serve in the following sectors: Environment, Health, Small Business Development and Youth Development.
Hear about the start of Peace Corps in Morocco by Rueben Simmons, Peace Corps Morocco Director 1963 and Marilyn Charles, Morocco 1, meet former Peace Corps Directors over the decades, watch video interviews by long serving Moroccan staff at the Peace Corps Office in Morocco and hear about Peace Corps/Morocco today and tomorrow.
Agenda
6:30 to 7:00 pm Networking and Refreshments
7:00 to 8:00 pm Program:
History of the start of Peace Corps in Morocco
Reuben Simmons, Peace Corps Morocco Director 1963 and Marilyn Charles, Morocco 1
News Video of Morocco 1 reunion visit to Morocco
Morocco in a Peace Corps contextTim Resch, RPCV/Morocco 1970-74
Valeries Staats, RPCV/Morocco 1983-85
Charlie B. Kellett, RPCV/Morocco 1994-96
Bruce Cohen, ex-Peace Corps/Morocco Director 2003-2008
Video interviews with long time Moroccan employees of Peace Corps
M'Hamed El Kadi, Information Resource Center Director
Daouia Belmokadem, Accountant
Abdou Laanaya, Facilities
Hakim Illi, receptionist
Peace Corps/Morocco: Today and Tomorrow
David Lille, Peace Corps Country Director for Morocco (PPT)
8:00 to 8:30 pm Networking and Refreshments
For more details see the Peace Corps Morocco web site
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Peace Corps 50th Anniversary CelebrationSept. 22-25, 2011 The National Mall, Washington, DC
This four-day series of events will include many activities honoring the service and impact of 200,000 Peace Corps Volunteers and include a wreath-laying ceremony at President Kennedy’s grave and a walk across Memorial Bridge carrying flags representing Peace Corps’ 139 countries of service.
Peace Corps/Morocco 50th Anniversary Celebration
Memorial Day Weekend May 26-27, 2012 Rabat, Morocco
Celebrate five decades of Peace Corps service to Morocco by over 4500 volunteers. This two-day series of events will include activities hosted by the National Peace Corps Association/Friends of Morocco, Peace Corps/Morocco and the government of Morocco. Returned volunteers are invited to bring family and friends to their sites of service across Morocco before and after the weekend. More to come. Ideas welcome
When & Where
The Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS)
Room 500 Bernstein Office Building
1717 Massachusetts Ave., N.W.
Washington,
DC 20036
Monday, March 22, 2010 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM (ET)
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Hosted By
Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM) and Friends of Morocco
The Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM): Museum, Research Center, Conference Facility, Community Center and the only US Historic Landmark outside the United States. TALIM is housed in a spacious historic building in the Tangier medina that functions as a museum open to the public, a public research library, a conference facility, and a community center, and hosts a language program.
Friends of Morocco (FOM) is an organization of Americans, mostly returned Peace Corps volunteers (RPCVs), with experience in Morocco, Moroccan-Americans and Moroccans in America united with in promoting educational, cultural, charitable, social, literary and scientific exchange between Morocco and the United States of America.