Elizabeth Dunderdale attended our RV event in Vancouver recently and came by for a visit. She recalled her service on San Andreas a small Caribbean Island. She went with a group of Canadians. She remembered Jan Rodgers ( deceased) Michael Rasberg and o...

I met Melissa Renaud, Michael Walsh, Sean Mulcahy and Robin Cheesman at a Preparing for Change training session at CUSO-VSO in Ottawa. This is a course that volunteers take prior to accepting and leaving for their assignment. I took the opportunity to ...

It was a pleasure interviewing Karen. I must say, all the chatter in the background at the coffee shop made it a bit distracting.

Karen served for 10 months teaching Introductory Computer Science to elementary and junior high students. She had Majored...

Anne- Catherine Bajard went to volunteer with CUSO with her husband Jose Luis Pereira Ossio. This ended up being a 15 year relationship with a country and its people. Anne- Catherine worked in Potosi, a town on a high altitude plateau approx. 12,000 ft...

Rick lives in Sorrento, British Columbia. I reached him during International Development week for this interview on Skype.

This was the first time I did an interview that we recorded on skype so please excuse me if it sounds a bit rough.

When Rick ca...

I talked to Ilona using Skype in Kimberly during International Development week. She travelled to Malawi to serve as a Doctor with her husband who is a Forrester and their two children.

Ilona returned to her practice in Kimberly recently. I am so impr...

During International Development week I talked with Tanis Clarke, a graduate in French Literature. She in 1978 she applied to serve with CUSO. She was assigned to a boys school in Sierra Leone teaching French.

Tanis worked for CUSO in Ontario and in P...

Gil Mervyn recently retired as Municipal clerk for the Municipality of Delta in British Columbia. I met with him during International Development week to hear about his experience in Guyana with CUSO.

This is one of those very special interviews where...

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My sister was staying at a fabulous Bed and Breakfast in Deep Cove called Lockehaven and told me that the owners name was Noulan Bowker and that he served with CUSO. She said that he remembered those years as some of the best of his life. I had to m...

I met Maryam Moghaddas in Vancouver recently. She has been back from her assignment for 6 years. It was wonderful talking with this bright woman who served when she was 29 years old with VSO.

She went as an IT specialist and ended up focusing on train...