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I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Brazil from the Brazil Health Project
which trained at NYU, September 1 - November 22, 1964. The Project
Director at NYU was Raymond Wilburn and the in-country director was
Ralph Gut.
I was a brand new nurse when I went into the Peace Corps in 1964. When I
arrived in Alagoinhas, Bahia, my first job was distributing Food for
Peace milk with another volunteer, Sally Danielson. Then I started
working in the regional hospital there. A pediatric wing was opened and
I worked there. I apprenticed myself to some local midwives and assisted
in home births. These midwives were excellent practitioners and I'll
never forget their teachings. I lived with 3 different families. And it
is the reconnection by one of the family members recently through the
internet that my memories "do Brazil e Os Voluntarios da Paz" are
flooding my mind! I felt even then that I benefited the most and it was
one of my greatest privileges. I hope others from this group will find
this website and reconnect. Saudades.
We arrived in Brazil in December, 1964 and left in August, 1966. I was
stationed in Alagoinhas, Bahia and worked as a nurse there. I did find
another person from our group on the Peace Corps Online website that
states his training was at NYU. His name is Jim Rose. I hope that our
group will be counted among those listed. It was a great group of
people. If I can supply any more info, please contact me. I have just
been contacted by the son of a former family I lived with through the
internet and am scrambling to get my Portuguese back! That contact got
me surfing the internet for info on Brazil and the Peace Corps. That is
how I came upon this web site. I'm grateful that there is so much
information.
Marjorie Noonsong
April 2007 | 
