WorldView Magazine: WorldView Spring 2024
Domestic Deployment
A vaccine against the virus was still a work in progress. The response to the pandemic was politicized and disorganized. And for the first time in its history, Peace Corps evacuated all Volunteers serving in the field. They returned through empty airports to a country in lockdown, with an economy in shock and a medical system pushed to the edge. But from all this bad news a possibility emerged. Public health systems across the country were in desperate need of contact tracers to reach out to people who had been diagnosed with COVID. And more than 7,000 Volunteers had suddenly...
Keep the Pep in PEPFAR
From my first week living in Motse Mocha, Quthing District, Lesotho, I heard drums and singing late into the night every Friday. Only after meeting my neighbors and making friends did I understand that the music was for funeral preparations. After several months I, too, was invited to stay up late, peeling carrots and chopping onions by paraffin lamplight to make food for grieving family and friends gathering for the next day’s burial. Eventually, I lost count of the number of funerals I attended. When my Peace Corps service began in 2005, nearly one in four people in Lesotho were...
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