A Yovo In Togo - My Peace Corps Experience in West Africa, 1985 to 1987

From 1985 to 1987 I served in the Peace Corps in Togo, West Africa, teaching people to build wood-conserving cookstoves and rain catchment cisterns.

They say the Peace Corps is "the toughest job you'll ever love," and that was certainly my experience-it was one of the hardest things I've ever done, and one of the highlights of my life.

Here is my story of what it was like to be a "yovo"-a foreigner, a stranger, and a white person-in a small village in northern Togo in the mid-1980s.

Product details

• Authors: Karen Story
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.11.2023
• EAN: 9781304899767
• ISBN: 978-1-304-89976-7
• No. of pages: 322
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 17 mm
• Weight: 469 g
• Subject: Travel > Travel guides > Africa