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A Message from NPCA President Glenn Blumhorst to Peace Corps Evacuees

Through your personal stories and photos shared by social media over the last few days, an entire Peace Corps community has vicariously lived the shocking reality of 7,000+ serving PCVs evacuating from communities in 60 countries around the world. This traumatic interruption of service is not the way a PCV envisions service to end – with unfinished projects, unsung farewells, unrung COS bells, and unsaid goodbyes.

To the PCV evacuees, my heartfelt sympathy. I share your grief. As you return home, know that there is an empathetic and caring Peace Corps community awaiting you with a collective virtual embrace. We are thousands of returned Peace Corps Volunteers (including many whose service had also been cut short), former staff, host country nationals, family, and friends who care deeply for you.

This unprecedented moment calls for an extraordinary response. Be assured that National Peace Corps Association (NPCA) is committed to providing the substantive support services that our RPCVs deserve. We hear you and are responding. In the coming days, you can expect:

  • collaborative effort forged among the Peace Corps agency, NPCA, and the greater Peace Corps community to support evacuated RPCVs upon your arrival.
  • The launch of a comprehensive Global Reentry program designed by NPCA especially for evacuated RPCVs with support tailored to your needs and expectations.
  • Rollout of an array of academic and career resources to assist evacuated RPCVs in taking the next step in your professional pathway.
  • Connections to an emerging RPCV peer support network and your local RPCV groups to provide emotional, moral, and logistical support.
  • Updates on how, through NPCA, we can collectively advocate for the benefits and entitlements evacuated RPCVs deserve, as well as ensure the future of the Peace Corps.

 

For those of us in the Peace Corps community who are able to provide financial leadership, the Benevolent Fund will enable NPCA to support basic needs and longer-term readjustment of evacuated RPCVs.

This is an amazing and resilient Peace Corps community. Thank you for all you do to serve one another and the world.

 

In service,

Glenn Blumhorst
NPCA President & CEO

RPCV Guatemala 1988-91

 

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