When I arrived as the next Peace Corps Volunteer to serve with EFA International, it was clear this program was a huge success. Members felt empowered and attitudes and behaviors of both HIV-positive and HIV-negative people in the community were changing. I thought to myself: this is great, but how can it be better? I realized, the previous Volunteer had created this empowering and effective program, but now my role was to make it sustainable, to make it EFA’s program and not the Volunteer’s.

In early December, I celebrated a one-year milestone as both a Peace Corps volunteer and as Technical and M&E Adviser for Education Fights AIDS International (EFA) in Cameroon. Reaching such a milestone seems to necessitate …

Rachel Hoy Deussom (’99) is co-founder of Education Fights AIDS (EFA) International.
After graduating from Georgetown University in 2003, she served as a Peace Corps
community health volunteer in northern Cameroon. During her service, a fellow
volunteer, Andrew …

EFA International joins Peace Corps in celebrating the government agency’s 50th Anniversary today, commemorating when it was established by Executive Order on March 1, 1961. As an organization founded by returned Peace Corps Volunteers, currently …

EFA International celebrates the life of Sargent Shriver, the man who brought JFK’s vision for the United States Peace Corps to life. He passed away today at the age of 95. It was through the …

Reposted from FriendsofCameroon.org
Cameroon’s 50th Anniversary of Independence
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Secretary of State
Washington, DC
May 19, 2010
http://www.state.gov/secretary/rm/2010/05/142016.htm
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On behalf of President Obama and the American people, I congratulate the people of Cameroon as you celebrate your fiftieth anniversary of …