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Friends of Morocco Quarterly Newsletter Fall 2020??News from Morocco (compiled almost weekly by?Mhamed El Kadi?in Morocco)????12/05 Weekly News in Review????11/14?Weekly News in Review????10/31?Weekly News in Review????10/17 Weekly News in Review????10/03?Weekly News in Review????9/19?Weekly News in Review????9/12 Weekly News in review????9/05 Weekly News in review??NPCA report “Peace Corps Connect to the Future”.Amid a time of unprecedented crisis for the Peace Corps and our nation as a whole, the Peace Corps community has come together to chart a way forward: with specific, actionable steps that will help reimagine and retool the Peace Corps for a changed world. Those steps are outlined in “Peace Corps Connect to the Future”. The report itself was prepared by a special National Peace Corps Association advisory council drawn from the broad Peace Corps community inside and outside the United States. It provides specific and actionable recommendations for multiple stakeholders: policymakers in the Peace Corps agency and the federal Executive Branch’s leadership; the United States Congress; and the Peace Corps community, particularly National Peace Corps Association.The report comes at an inflection point for the Peace Corps, after all Volunteers were evacuated from service around the globe earlier this year. Harnessing the experience, commitment, and innovative ideas of the Peace Corps community, in July NPCA convened a series of national community discussions and a global ideas summit to ask some far-reaching questions about the future of Peace Corps in a changed world. The conversations tackled two key questions. First, whether the Peace Corps as an agency should continue to exist; on that count, the response was a resounding “yes.” And second, when the Peace Corps returns to the field, what should it look like? The responses to this second question yielded this report. “Peace Corps should reflect the fullness of America and provide the country’s best and truest face to the world,” the report notes. “It should return to the field better, bolder, more inclusive, and more effective.”The Peace Corps agency has reported that partner nations have all asked for the return of Volunteers as soon as conditions permit. A small number of Volunteers are already scheduled to return to the Eastern Caribbean and Cambodia in early 2021. The act of their return — or arrival in countries for new programs — will signal that a country can engage internationally in a post-pandemic world.?? Fall Issue of NPCA Worldview magazine is now onlineTaking stock of this moment, we ask a big question on the cover of the fall edition of WorldView: What’s the role of Peace Corps now? Inside: ideas and conversations with a few answers — and more than a few challenges for all of us in the Peace Corps community. The digital edition is live, with links to many stories below. Full editions — first. Digital exclusives. Searchable archives. Here’s how to get it: 1. Sign up for an account here. For a limited time, access is free using the code DIGITAL2020. 2. Then download the app from the iOS store, Google Play, or read the mag on Flickread on your computer here.If you’re not a member, you can join NPCA or renew at a basic level for free.??National Peace Corps Association Annual Report 2019Over four decades we have grown from the nascent National Council of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers to the more inclusive National Peace Corps Association. As we adapt to our ever-changing world, we have demonstrated steadfast commitment to the Peace Corps mission. Our Peace Corps community is shaping an era by building on our rich history to forge a dynamic future deeply rooted in our core values — while boldly looking forward to inspire transformation. Our vision is a united and vibrant Peace Corps community that enables NPCA to focus on community-driven decisions.??Peace Corps’ 60th Anniversary Celebrations March 4, 2021: Capitol Hill Advocacy DayMarch 5–6, 2021: Shriver Leadership SummitJuly 29–31, 2021: Peace Corps ConnectIn commemoration of Peace Corps’ 60th anniversary, NPCA will be facilitating a series of events and activities throughout 2021, culminating in the annual national conference Peace Corps Connect, hosted at Howard University in Washington, D.C. Please note that all events in 2021 will be planned as hybrid virtual / in-person events until it is determined whether large gatherings can be conducted safely.????Former U.S. Legation in Tangier prepares for it’s bicentennial The Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM) is celebrating its bicentennial in 2021, and planning many special events and program enhancements to mark this spectacular occasion. Subscribe to the TALIM mailing list! Want to know what is going on at the Tangier American Legation, or what is happening with our initiatives? Sign up for the mailing list. You manage your own subscription, will not receive more than four emails per month (usually fewer).One of America’s great overseas historic sites and public diplomacy gems is the Tangier American Legation Institute for Moroccan Studies (TALIM) in the historic American Legation in the old medina of “exotic” Tangiers in northern Morocco. Presented to the United States by Sultan Moulay Suliman way back in 1821, the U.S. Government site served as an American diplomatic post until 1961 when it became a language school for the Foreign Service Institute and later a training center for the Peace Corps. In 1976, the old Moorish-style building was saved by a group of American friends and converted into a museum. In 1982, it was designated as the first and only “National Historic Landmark” outside of the United States.Today, TALIM, a non-profit organization with retired Foreign Service Officer and Morocco RPCV (Berkane 1983-85) as Director since 2014, manages the multi-purpose space as a lively museum, research library, and educational and cultural outreach center to promote Morocco-U.S. friendship. In a unique arrangement, the Department of State continues to own and maintain the building as culturally significant property. For a virtual tour of this wonderful, restored facility, go to?. Go to?history.countries/morocco for a brief history of U.S.-Morocco relations.TALIM Recruiting for Resident Director: A committee has been formed to conduct the search. Please find details in the announcement.??The Strange History of Ion Perdicaris and the Perdicaris Park in Tangierby?Lucas Peters?Journey Beyond Travel??Opportunities abound to immortalize your observations and momentos of your service in Morocco and to make sure that Morocco is remembered in the Peace Corps history, which for Morocco is as long as Peace Corps itself.????The Museum of the Peace Corps Experience envisions connecting people around the world to inspire service and peace, showing that our common humanity is more fundamental than the cultures and ideas that separate us. The Museum of the Peace Corps Experience collects and preserves stories and objects of material culture donated by volunteers who serve in communities around the globe. It fosters cultural understanding through education and promotes research on the impact of Peace Corps, encouraging visitors to serve—wherever they live, however they can. The Museum will install?its first exhibits in Washington, DC, at?Peace Corps Place, the new home of the National Peace Corps Association. A state-of-the-art museum will eventually find a permanent home in the?Peace Corps Community Center.?An online?museum is a major goal of this multiphase project. Virtual?exhibit space?will?enable?global access to?its?collections. FaceBook????The Peace Corps Community Archive curated by the American University Library collects, preserves, and makes available materials that were created and acquired by Peace Corps Volunteers. The archive is used to support student and scholarly research, create exhibits, and provide educational and public programs that document the experiences and impact of individuals who served in the Peace Corps. Started in 2013, the archive continues to solicit donations from RPCVs. Materials created and/or acquired by volunteers during their service can be donated, such as: correspondence, diaries, film, photographs, reports, lesson plans, scrapbooks, and sound recordings.????The mission of the Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Oral History Archives Project is to preserve the Peace Corps experience since its inception through in-depth oral interviews of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs) and staff. Interviews are conducted by volunteer RPCVs and archived at the University of Kentucky Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History and the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum (now only Kennedy era volunteers). Since its inception in 1999, over 700 interviews have been recorded and archived. Over 520 interviews were recorded on audiocassette tapes and are indexed in the Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection at the JFK Library. Beginning in 2015 interviews are recorded digitally and can be accessed online. Funds are currently being raised to digitize this library so it will be accessible to the public. Learn how you can contribute through the Phyllis Noble Memorial Oral History Fund. Would you like to be interviewed or become an interviewer? Click here to submit an interview request????The Peace Corps Family Album Project administered by Ernie (and Helene Beigel) Zaremba Tanganyika IV 1964-1966 erniezaremba@ Phone: 708-822-5588 has entered it’s next phase. The first?phase (2013 to 2015) was the interviews: getting them?and posting them on Youtube. The collection for Morocco 1, 2a, 2b, 3, 4, and (2014-15) Interviews. The present phase is giving you a chance to share more stories. Zoom technology?makes that easy. All you need is access to a smartphone or pad/tablet or?computer. All it should take is about 30 minutes of your time sharing a story.????Peace Corps Stories: The Unofficial Podcast (No Morocco PCV stories yet)An unfiltered look at the toughest job you'll ever love. Each episode features true stories about the Peace Corps, told by returned volunteers reflecting on the thrilling highs, the debilitating lows, the near-death experiences and the crazy adventures that you may not hear about from the Peace Corps organization itself. The Returned Peace Corps Volunteers of New York City is a non-profit group based in NYC to bring people who have served in the Peace Corps, with their friends and family, together for charity and social events, as well as our annual Peace Corps Story Slam storytelling event. Find us on Facebook.?? CorpsAfrica Founder Liz Fanning named 2021 AARP Purpose Prize FellowCongratulations to Liz Fanning (Morocco 1993–95), for being selected as a 2021 AARP Purpose Prize Fellow. Fanning is Founder and Executive Director of CorpsAfrica, which recruits young Africans to remote villages in their own countries to help facilitate solutions to problems identified by local people. “More than 300 volunteers have served in four countries — Morocco, Senegal, Malawi and Rwanda — impacting an estimated 150,000 rural Africans,” she says. “Our approach not only benefits the villagers, it transforms the lives and life goals of our volunteers.” Fanning was recognized by the Peace Corps community for her work with the 2019 Sargent Shriver Award for Distinguished Humanitarian Service. ?? On September 2, 2020, CorpsAfrica hosted a virtual event to raise support for Volunteer projects that build resilient communities in Africa. This film stars the CorpsAfrica Volunteers in Morocco, Senegal, Malawi and Rwanda, and also Board members and staff. Enjoy! ?? Peace Corps Worldwide interview with Liz Fanning, Executive Director of CorpsAfrica?? Morocco Library ProjectHere is an update on what's happening at MLP. With this time at home, I've been very busy trying to build more support for MLP and to plan ahead for 2021. Here's what we have in the works for the next few months, and we're excited about all of these!!1) A public English library in Biougra, with Ali Amhal. This will be a big endeavor over the winter, and it's our first public library project. This resource will serve multiple schools and the community.2) A school library for Dar Taliba in Sidi Slimane, with Nabil el Ghoufi. This will probably be our only school project for the 2020-21 academic year.3) A second MLP Writing Competition, with Larbi Arbaoui, We hope to involve more schools this time.4) a tree-planting project in the Souss-Massa, with argan and fruit trees. This is an environmental learning opportunity for students and also a friendship mission uniting people around a common interest, as we are planting in Morocco, California, and Kenya at the same time. More at HYPERLINK "" ?? Marilee McClintock (Small Business Development 2000 to 2002 Chtouka Ait Baha and small business development/NGO technical trainer and coordinator in 2003) now resident in Paris has a Blog titled Sixty after sixty: My travel to more than sixty countries after turning Sixty. Ater Morocco, she subsequently served as Country Director in Benin and Micronesia, as Crisis Corps Country Representative in Sri Lanka, and as Interim Country Director in the Philippines and Moldova. She most recently served as the DPT/PC Thailand and previously as Program and Operations Specialist for Peace Corps Response. Prior to her affiliation with Peace Corps, her career spanned 20 years of private sector executive management roles in the logistics and commercial real estate industries throughout the U.S. and Europe. Her blog, rich with images, charts her travels since 2010. First developed as a “travelogue” sent to family and friends is now available on her web site. ?? For over 35 years, the Moroccan-American Commission for Educational and Cultural Exchange (MACECE) has been working to promote the spirit of traditional friendship between the peoples of Morocco and the United States of America by facilitating academic and cultural exchanges between American and Moroccan citizens.It is managed by a binational board of commissioners and receives its primary funding from the governments of the Kingdom of Morocco and the United States of America. The binational Commission administers a wide range of research, study and teaching grants, chiefly within the context of the worldwide Fulbright Educational Exchange Program. In addition to exchanges for Moroccans to the Unitied States, programs for Americans include the English Teaching Assistant Program (ETA), the Fulbright Distinguished Awards in Teaching Research Program for U.S. Teachers, the Fulbright U.S. Student Research Program and the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Program. ?? Khadija's Moroccan Kitchen eCookbook by Khadija Channouf“I am elated to announce the launch of my cookbook, Khadija’s Moroccan Kitchen with 50+ time tested recipes meticulously catered for the western kitchen. Soups, salads, tagines, meats, seafood, and a plethora of desserts!Many of you remember me from my Peace Corp and CCS days from way back. I miss those days! Some of my best memories were meeting thousands of volunteers who came to Morocco and spending time together as I offered weekly cooking lessons. Well, lots have changed since. I am now married living in Azrou with my husband Mhammed and my two daughters Arij (5) and Zineb (2) with no source of personal income. These financially strenuous times, further exasperated by the pandemic, propelled me to formalize my recipes and publish my cookbook. It is a means for me to honor my father’s culinary gifts to me and to generate an income for my family. During these times of crisis, many people are home-bound and engaging in a variety of culinary pursuits to soothe their fears, express their creativity, and most importantly celebrate their loved ones. If my food can hearten your family, it would be the best reward for me.I am requesting you to buy this eCookbook through the website to help with two great causes:1. Provide a source of income for my family and elderly parents including my ailing father.2. Support feeding 150 homeless people three meals a week through ‘Food for Thought’. An organization that has been continuously operating since 2009 and has served 30,000 meals to the Houston homeless. A percentage of the proceeds from the sale of this book is going directly to feed the less fortunate.“?? Moroccan Cinema: The 9 Best Moroccan Movies of All Time (per Morocco World News)This is a list of the best Moroccan movies of all time that will either get you more acquainted with Moroccan cinema or hit you with nostalgia. Also playing is Zeft, est l’histoire d’un village, d’une société en mutation tiraillée entre le fond traditionnel des croyances et les aspirations diffuses sur la modernité. 1:35 min ????13 Netflix TV Shows and Movies Filmed in Morocco (2020)Heading to Morocco? These Netflix TV shows and movies filmed in Morocco will help you prepare for your trip from the comfort of your couch. Here are 13 TV shows and movies set in Morocco on Netflix streaming in the US as of November 2, 2020. Many are also available in other countries. Watch them while you can, because content disappears as licensing agreements expire. Also, don’t miss the bonus list below of TV shows and movies made in Morocco on Amazon Prime.????"The Choice" a film written by an RPCV Mary Adele Costa (2013 – 15 Ain Chaggag).?It's about a young Moroccan woman, Selma, who is struggling with her sexuality, but her mother just thinks she is shy/doesn't know how to do courtship, so she brings her to Amastina, the village witch, to "bewitch some nerve into her." After speaking with Selma confidentially for a while, Amastina susses out the trouble, and offers her 3 possible magical ways forward: 1-get wrapped in a powerful glamour so that all who see her see her as a man. 2 - Accept a spell to make her more comfortable with lying. 3- Accept a spell to give her the courage to come out.?Ms Costa’s hope is that it reflects their strength and the diverse ways they choose to negotiate the world around them. It's steeped in Berber culture and Darija, and the village setting is based on her village of service. Friends of Morocco can get a streaming link to this film and the entire Confetti Film Festival for free by filling out the Google form. It will be available Dec 3rd - Dec 13th. The link is free, but our theater is suggesting donations of $10 per viewer.?????Learn Darija by watching Moroccan Movies (Eng Sub and French sub) Facebook groupMoroccan full movies link with subtitles translated from Moroccan Arabic (Darija) to English or FrenchFor entertainment and educational purposes (for those of you who want to learn Darija or English or french) on the YouTube channel Katana Darija teacher????The Friends of Morocco website has a links page dedicated to Morocco-related Film. Some links bad and there may be more resources now available so a volunteers to update links would be terrific. Contact timresch@?? Solidarity with Moroccan Host Communities, a GoFundMe project organized Melissa Topacio Long, has reached it’s goal. Project purpose was showing solidarity with Moroccan families from rural villages, who have been impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic and the drought that Morocco is currently experiencing. Many people living Morocco's rural areas depend upon agriculture and live off of earnings on a day to day or season to season basis; they do not have the resources to face a stalling economy and the changing climate (which manifests in Morocco as a drought). Over the past five years, rural host families have shown incredible hospitality to hundreds of foreign students. We are raising money to show solidarity with a small number of families in six villages across Morocco and to thank our hosts and their community for the kindness and generosity shown to foreign students during cultural programs.?We are working with the leaders of local associations and cooperatives to identify the families in their communities that have been most severely impacted. They have reported that much of the need comes from day laborers, those who previously worked in the informal sector (people with no social security), and small farmers. The association and cooperative leaders expressed that these families urgently need food and basic necessities.Funds raised will be distributed between six Moroccan villages. Funds will be sent directly to the leaders of Moroccan associations and cooperatives. These leaders will use funds to purchase food staples that will be distributed to families in their community with the most need. The leaders will take pictures of the food staples before distribution for accountability purposes. (There will be no images of the people who receive aid as this would not be appropriate within Moroccan norms around gift giving and not everyone wants their image on the internet.) We will provide (upon request) receipts of fund transfers to local leaders, as well as receipts of purchases; please email if you would like a copy of these receipts.SEPTEMBER 11, 2020 update by Melissa Topacio Long,?OrganizerThis week, we began transferring contributions to community leaders in seven villages around Morocco. Because we were able to meet our updated goal of $4,500, community leaders will also purchase school supplies for some families in need of extra support. As these community leaders purchase food staples and school supplies, we will receive and post images of goods purchased. Thank you to all of our donors for supporting these solidarity efforts.Melissa Topacio Long has over 10 years of experience in global and experiential education. In 2014, she founded ImprintEd Abroad, which crafts immersive educational programming in Morocco and strives to create authentic student experiences through activities and dialogue with locals. Melissa approaches study abroad programming as an opportunity to maximize intercultural exchange as well as to encourage the development of empathy and leadership skills in both participating students and their local hosts.?? Intergroup Attitudes Survey for International Volunteers and Extended Populations HYPERLINK "" Joshua Inton-Campbell (Morocco 2012-2014 Erfoud, Errachidia) is now a Ph.D. student at University of Otago, New Zealand and currently conducting research interviews. There are two groups of RPCVs that are not well represented that I am hoping I can improve participation from:1) Racial and Ethnic Diversity: Are you African-American, Asian-American, Latinx, or a person of color from another racial or ethnic minority? So far, most of the participants have been white and there are unique experiences that many of you have, such as how identities interact for racial and ethnic minorities while representing the U.S. abroad, and I want to make sure your voices are included in this study.2) End of Service: Were you one of the many PCVs or PCTs evacuated as part of the COVID response? Were you medically or administratively separated during your service? Did you choose early termination of your service? All of these experiences are important, and I want to understand how these events impacted your Peace Corps experience and perceptions of your host-country.If you can set aside an hour to one and a half hours for a research interview, please let me know in the replies or e-mail me at?ptiv.study@ If you are not part of one of these groups and still want to support this research, we still need more RPCVs to share this survey with friends and family members who were not RPCVs so we can better understand how learning about Peace Corps service impacts the communities we come from in the US. The survey should take roughly 20 – 30 minutes and can be completed on your computer or phone. You can use the link below to take the survey yourself, if you haven’t, or to share the survey with friends and family. ?? In Memoriam:????Stacey Elko (Apiculture 88-90, Health/Sanitation 91-92 Independent artist 1992 –1998 in Skoura, Azilal, Anezi, Tiznit, and Tangier, Morocco) passed on August 26, 2020. Heavily tattooed, Stacy Elko, Associate Professor, Printmaking and Area Lead at Texas Tech University) worked to push the boundaries of traditional printmaking though a multimedia, multidisciplinary approach to art making and teaching. ?In addition to teaching and mentoring students in printmaking, drawing, and video/transmedia, she also served as MFA Coordinator and engaged in research with collaborators from across the nation. A multi-dimensional artist, her work stretched beyond printmaking to embrace time-based media, music, and performance art, as well as interactive environments that were epitomized in her sculptural airships, "Flying Machines". In everything that she did, Stacy held the highest expectations and standards, both for herself and for others. "We all know she could be frustrating and downright difficult," Robin Germany recalls, "but she acted with integrity and honesty." Stacy Elko earned her BFA (painting) from Kent State (1986) and an MFA from Indiana University (2005), where she studied printmaking, foundry, and digital media. She lives on via her artistic works Facebook announcement and comments.The School of Art has announced an initiative to create a scholarship in Stacy's memory. Our fundraising goal is $25,000. The School of Art's Medici Circle has contributed $10,000 toward that goal. Donations may be made to the?Stacy Elko - Medici Circle Memorial Scholarship in the School of Art?at Texas Tech University. Checks can be made payable to Texas Tech Foundation, Inc. and mailed to Box 45025, Lubbock, TX 79409-5025 or?secure on-line donations can be made at this link.????Kay (Peete) Ostrom?(Zoumi 1965-67), passed away peacefully in her home on August 18, 2020 from pancreatic cancer. Kay was born on February 26, 1943 in Sylacauga, AL to Henry and Louise (Lucas) Peete who were both educators. They lived in Alabama until 1954 when they moved to Miami, FL. It was in 6th grade when Kay Peete and Gary Ostrom met. They continued to stay in touch through college. Kay graduated from Blue Mountain College in 1965 with a degree in education and was then accepted into the Peace Corp where she spent two years in Morocco from 1965-1967. They were engaged in October 1967 months before Gary was given orders by the U.S. Army Signal Corp to serve in Vietnam for the year of 1968. Kay and Gary were married on February 14, 1969 in Miami, Florida. They lived in Miami until 1973 when Gary accepted a position at the Philadelphia Inquirer. In 1976, the family moved to Muskegon, Michigan when Gary began working at the Muskegon Chronicle. Kay was a woman of deep faith and was actively involved in her church, First Presbyterian. She contributed leadership as a deacon, Sarah's Circle, teaching Sunday School, and loved to share one of her life long passions of singing as a member of the church choir and as a soloist. Kay also received an honorary life membership to Presbyterian Women. Kay worked as an educator for 25 years, including 13 years for Parent Child Workshop in the Orchard View Public Schools followed by 12 years as a guest teacher in the greater Muskegon area. Over the years Kay and Gary established deep roots in the community that they loved so much. Kay was actively involved in the Delta Kappa Gamma Teachers Society including holding a state office, Blue Mountain College Alumni Association, Kids Food Basket, Peace Corps Alumni, GVSU Interfaith Dialogue, Muskegon County Cooperating Churches, Friends of Art and the Second Century Legacy Society at the Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon Heritage Association, Frauenthal Center, Friends of Hackley Public Library, Muskegon Red Cross Board of Directors, Greater Muskegon Women's Club and was a receiver of the Women of Accomplishment Award, United Way of the Lakeshore, Westshore Symphony, and American Association of University Women for Gender Equity, among many others. Kay was preceded in death by her husband, Gary Ostrom after 47 wonderful years of marriage.Lawrence (David) Davis September 25, 1946?-?July 11, 2020 Newbury, MA - David Davis succumbed to the devastations of cancer on July 11, 2020. He was 73. He grew up in Colorado, hiking in the high ranges of the Rocky Mountains. After graduating from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 1968, he volunteered for the Peace Corps working as a surveyor in the deserts of Morocco. Upon returning in 1970, David, a conscientious objector, taught math to learning disabled children at Eagle Hill School in Hardwick as an alternative to military service. He then earned a PhD at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and joined the faculty of the University of Hawaii teaching philosophy and logic. Switching gears he began a career in software development, working in a specialized area of artificial intelligence where he pioneered many techniques for applying the technology to real-world problems. His work was featured multiple times in Newsweek and was the subject of a BBC World Service interview. He founded or co-funded three companies specializing in application of this technology, authored or co-authored more than 40 papers in the field, and wrote or edited five books on the subject.He had been writing poetry since his undergraduate days, so when he and his wife, Wendy, moved to Newbury, David was drawn to Newburyport's Powow River Poets Workshop. He became a key member, helping organize poetry events, and published four books of poetry, including Market Town and Other Poems, released just days after his death. As an avid birder, he established the Poet in Residence program at the local Joppa Flats Audubon center and served as the Poet in Residence from 2012 to 2017. For years he led birding trips, and brought together the poetry and birding communities in events that celebrated the intersection of nature and the arts. David's approach to his terminal cancer can be found in his book The Joy Poems, which is an instruction manual for getting more joy out of life, no matter what.?? Friends of Morocco in web site migrationCreation of and migration to the new Friends of Morocco website has started. The beta site is now in draft and under construction. For the moment, the existing Friends of Morocco web site at will be the most current. After pertinent content is migrated, the URL will be re-directed. The existing site will become an archive site. Consultant for the project is Johnny Graces, a RPCV (Jordan 2009-2012) and web designer and developer based in NYC and who has worked for startups and non-profits across various platforms (Wordpress, Shopify, and SilkStart). His work was underwritten by a donation from a FOM member. Bad links and expired content remain to be updated prior to migration. Volunteers are needed to speed the work on sections such as restaurants, recipes, links, souq, and yellow pages. A stipend could be negotiated with a larger time commitment. ?? Friends of Morocco has an almost complete database of volunteers who have served in Morocco since 1962 based on 1) Freedom of Information requests to Peace Corps, which is bound to provide name (first, MI and last) and SOS and COS dates by country of service 2) data sharing with the NPCA and 3) more than 30 years of correspondence from FOM functioning. This information can facilitate Year of Service (YOS) reunions. For many, however, we do not have current contact information (email, mailing address, or phone numbers) but this could be rectified by YOS contact volunteers with a little effort with Facebook, LinkedIn, USPhonebook, internet searching and networking . Contact timresch@ if you would like to accept this challenge for your year of service . ?? Friends of Morocco and the National Peace Corps Association are dues-free One can join NPCA and Friends of Morocco at the NPCA membership page. Membership in the NPCA is?complimentary for everyone in the Peace Corps community – serving Peace Corps Volunteers, Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, current Peace Corps staff, former Peace Corps staff, host country nationals and anyone who shares Peace Corps ideals, so long as we have accurate service and contact information for you. Alternatively, one can fill out the Friends of Morocco Membership Application and email it to timresch@. Contributions welcome.The National Peace Corps Association (NPCA) is connecting and championing Returned Peace Corps Volunteers and the Peace Corps community. It provides service and education opportunities that build on the Peace Corps experience, and is also the longest-standing advocate for an independent and robust Peace Corps.? The National Peace Corps Association is a nonprofit organization encompassing a network of over 50,000 individuals and more than 180 affiliate groups. The NPCA and its member groups produce global education programs and advocacy campaigns, and provide community, national and international services. Friends of Morocco and the High Atlas Foundation (Morocco) are affiliate groups of NPCA.? Become a Mission Partner?by contributing $50 or more and you’ll automatically receive a one-year subscription to WorldView.?Your contribution to NPCA’s?Community Fund?supports our core programs. You’ll be helping to increase our community’s development impact, provide transition assistance to recent RPCVs and advocate for a bigger and better Peace Corps. You can also get?WorldView on a subscription-only basis for $35 per year.? WorldView archival issues can be viewed free online.???Friends of Morocco (FOM), active since 1988, is an organization of Americans, mostly returned Peace Corps volunteers (RPCVs), with experience in Morocco, Moroccan-Americans and Moroccans in America united with an interest in promoting educational, cultural, charitable, social, literary and scientific exchange between Morocco and the United States of America. FOM seeks to:?????unite Americans with experience in Morocco, Moroccan-Americans and Moroccans in America;?????improve the awareness of Americans regarding the culture, needs and achievements of Moroccan peoples; ?????keep members and others current on events in Morocco; ?????organize and implement development education and outreach activities;?????support projects of the U.S. Peace Corps and private charitable organizations in Morocco; ?????support scholarship on Morocco and Moroccans.?? This message is sent BCC to Friends of Morocco members for whom we have email addresses.? BCC to prevent well-intentioned (or malicious) SPAM.? Feel free to forward onward to your friends who might appreciate knowing about these events and who may not be on our email list.? If they would also like these periodic updates, have them contact us at tim@.?? Advise the same address if you would NOT like to receive these infrequent email alerts.? Tim Resch, PresidentFriends of MoroccoPO BOX 2579 Washington, DC 20013-2579 tim@C 703 470 3166 ................
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