New Peace Corps director for Eastern Caribbean
Terry Armstrong
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados: The United States
Peace Corps in the Eastern Caribbean has a new director. He is Terry Armstrong
who took up his position as Country Director for Peace Corps Eastern Caribbean
on August 22, 2005, and is based in the regional Peace Corps office in St.
Lucia. Mr. Armstrong took over from
longstanding director Earl Phillips who retired in July this year.
Previously, Mr. Armstrong served as the Country Director for the Peace Corps
program in Albania. Prior to that, Mr. Armstrong was the Programming and
Training Officer for Peace Corps in Romania.
From 1998-2000, Mr. Armstrong was the Country Director for the Institute for
Sustainable Communities in Macedonia. He directed a Democracy Network program
under a cooperative agreement with the United States Agency for International
Development. He also directed privately funded community action planning
projects in Macedonia and Albania. From 1989
through 1997, Mr. Armstrong served first as a Peace Corps Volunteer and then
as a Peace Corps staff member. He was an environmental Volunteer working on
national marine parks in Jamaica and Seychelles, and a trainer, training
director, or designer for Peace Corps in Jamaica, Hungary, Poland, Czech
Republic and Ukraine. From 1994-1997, he was the Programming and Training
Specialist for startup Peace Corps posts in Kazakhstan and Kyrgyz Republic.
Prior to volunteering for Peace Corps, Mr. Armstrong spent 15 years as a
Principal Research Scientist for the American Institutes for Research in the
United States. He applied the behavioral sciences in a variety of projects to
improve quality of life. He holds a Ph.D. in Experimental Psychology from the
University of Michigan. Peace Corps was
founded in 1960, when then Senator John F. Kennedy challenged students at the
University of Michigan to serve their country in the cause of peace by living
and working in developing countries. In March
1961, Kennedy, newly elected President, signed an Executive Order establishing
the Peace Corps. Since then over 178, 000 Peace Corps Volunteers have served
in 137 countries. The United States Peace
Corps brings American volunteers to six island nations in the Eastern
Caribbean and to many other nations around the world where they live and work
in local communities for two years. They have taught and mentored thousands of
children, helped farmers earn better yields from their crops, worked with
myriad small businesses, helped schools develop computer skills and educated
entire communities about the threat of HIV/AIDS.
In the Eastern Caribbean, Peace Corps has offices and volunteers in Antigua,
St. Kitts, Dominica, St. Lucia , St. Vincent and Grenada.
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