Living Poor: A Peace Corps Chronicle, (Paperback)

from wealhtheowwylfing

A US farmer volunteers to live and work in a desperately poor village in Ecuador. He utterly avoids sentimentality or rose-colored glasses. The villagers are barely surviving because of utterly unfair policies, and he never lets us forget that, no matter how many amusing anecdotes he tells.

from SeriousGrace

Split into four sections chronicling the years 1965, 1966, 1967 & 1968 Living Poor starts at the most logical place, Thomsen's application. His expertise as a pig farmer made him the perfect match for helping Ecuadorian farmers raise chickens and pigs and grow vegetable gardens. His first assignm...

from SeriousGrace

Split into four sections chronicling the years 1965, 1966, 1967 & 1968 Living Poor starts at the most logical place, Thomsen's application. His expertise as a pig farmer made him the perfect match for helping Ecuadorian farmers raise chickens and pigs and grow vegetable gardens. His first assignm...