Interview with Brian Dugas, May 20, 2021
Project: Peace Corps: COVID-19 Evacuated Peace Corps Volunteers Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Brian Dugas served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Tanzania from 2018 to 2020. Prior to Peace Corps, Brian had a career in education and law enforcement and he had engaged in a lifetime of volunteer service. As he approached retirement, his forty-year dream of joining Peace Corps was finally possible. Dugas’s training cohort was HE/AG 2018. His pre-service training in language, culture, and technical training was conducted in Morogoro. His site assignment was in the village of Negezi in the Shinyanga District working in local healthcare training a group to serve as First Responders in the village. Dugas also engaged in secondary projects in nutrition improvement and planting Moringa trees. Dugas was completing the last few weeks of his two-year service when he was evacuated due to the COVID-19 pandemic.Interview Accession
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Tanzania (Country of service) 2018-2020 (Date of service) Peace Corps Volunteer Job: Health COVID-19 (Disease) Evacuated Peace Corps Volunteer (EPCV) Evacuation Language training Training Cultural training Peace Corps-related medical issues Diversity in the Peace Corps Older Americans Morogoro (Tanzania) Negezi (Tanzania)Interview LC Subject
Peace Corps (U.S.) Peace Corps (U.S.)--Tanzania Tanzania Acculturation Communication and culture Culture Culture shock Intercultural communication Interpersonal communication and culture Interpersonal relations Interpersonal relations and culture Language and culture Language and languages Lifestyles Manners and customs Voluntarism VolunteersInterview Rights
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Dugas, Brian Interview by Cal Mann. 20 May. 2021. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Dugas, B. (2021, May 20). Interview by C. Mann. Peace Corps: COVID-19 Evacuated Peace Corps Volunteers Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Dugas, Brian, interview by Cal Mann. May 20, 2021, Peace Corps: COVID-19 Evacuated Peace Corps Volunteers Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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