Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle

by Moritz Thomsen

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One of the best Peace Corps memoirs that I've read, focusing on his efforts with poor folks on the coast of rural Ecuador - who are difficult to motivate to change things.

tbwenzl | Apr 6, 2009 |

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