¡Viva la Piña! – A Community Development Story
By: Ron Burkard In 1965 I became regional director for the CARE-managed Accion Comunal Peace Corps program in Colombia, moving from Guadalajara, Mexico to Barranquilla. The wonderful area I covered was the then-departamentos of La Guajira, Magdalena, Atlantico, Bolivar and Cordoba. There were about 50 urban and rural volunteers in the region at the time. Several of them are still friends, more than 40 years later! CARE's contract with the Peace Corps ended on short notice when I had been in Barranquilla for less than a year. This was one of the shortest but most meaningful of 17 assignments during
Observations From A Recent Month in Bogota and Santander
By Mike Eubanks Group VI, July 1963 - February 1965 I would like to share with you some observations from a recent months stay in Bogota and Santander. Most of what we saw represented success of what all of us worked for and hoped would result. Apart from the continued growth and development of the middle class, the campesino is sharing in the countrys prosperity. Caminos vecinales is extending paved farm to market roads deep into the countryside. Commercial quality vegetable crops and fruit are being grown everywhere. Milk for urban markets is regularly collected from even small farms. Fish