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New Peace Corps director for Eastern Caribbean

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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