Échame la ñapa, compa’
By Jeremy Booth Generally speaking, once you decide to get one, there is a lot of freedom regarding tattoos. There is no formula to tell what exactly to get, where to place [...]
Images of Peace
By Alyssa Galik, RPCV 2016–2018 This story originally appeared in the 60th Anniversary Exhibit for the Museum of the Peace Corps Experience. Cartagena has always been a place of contradictions, a city of [...]
Rumbaterapia class raises $2,300 for La Guajira organization
During our virtual dance party therapy event FOC raised a total of $2,300 for an inspiring organization selected by our dance instructor, Alé Tracy Chavarriaga, who worked with them as a Peace [...]
Ambassador Santos Wishes Peace Corps a Happy 60th Anniversary
In celebration of #PeaceCorpsWeek, FOC worked with Francisco Santos, current Ambassador of Colombia to the US, to bring you a special video message. Many thanks to the Embassy of Colombia in [...]
Volunteers describe how they went from college to Colombia in 1962
By Jim Brown, Colombia IV (1962-1964) The Wild West years of Peace Corps recruiting were 1961 and 1962. An understaffed office in Washington was inundated by thousands of applications. There were delays, [...]
Panel: Discussing Race and Gender in 21st-Century Colombia
On February 5, 2021 - FOC hosted the panel "Discussing Race and Gender in 21st-Century Colombia." FOC's very own Dr. Taylor Owen Ramsey, Ph.D. moderated a timely and important discussion, "Race and [...]
FOC more than doubled our end of year fundraising goal!
Thanks to the generosity of our AMAZING members, FOC's recent End of Year campaign broke multiple fundraising records. Over the past two months, a total of 183 individual donations helped FOC raise $30,481, both [...]
Virtual Happy Hours with Peace Corps Colombia Cohorts
This March, all Peace Corps Colombia volunteers were evacuated and forced to return to the United States. FOC helped welcome the 96 evacuated Colombia Peace Corps volunteers by hosting a virtual happy [...]
FOC Mentorship Testimonials from 2020
In an effort to provide support to the 96 Peace Corps Colombia evacuees and other recently returned volunteers, Friends of Colombia started a Mentorship Program. FOC mentors offered their mentees job search [...]
Meet FOC’s Communications Intern Laura Leiva Vargas
Laura, can you tell us a bit about yourself? My name is Laura Leiva Vargas. I am from Cartagena de Indias, Colombia. I studied communications at Universidad de Cartagena, and I graduated [...]