Interview with Anne Bachmann, January 2, 2023

Interview Summary

Anne Bachmann served in Grenada, 2015-2017, and was a Response volunteer in Belize, 2018. Anne’s Response tenure teaching teachers literacy strategies was cut short by illness; she was medevac’d home. RE: Grenada, Anne underwent education training in St. Lucia before departing to St. George’s, Grenada. Anne’s job was literacy/reading and her post was Uganda Martyrs Catholic School where she taught K-6. She and her co-teacher initiated “pull-in” rooms where students received individualized literacy assessments and training. Anne collaborated with a Response volunteer, a psychologist, who worked at an orphanage, where the two started a literacy summer school. Grenada was like an onion, with many layers, Anne said. Her most positive memory is the children and her most negative is the use of corporal punishment. Takeaway: PC’s value is helping people from other countries see Americans in a different light and vice versa.

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Peace Corps (U.S.) Grenada (Country of service) Belize (Response Country of service) 2015-2017 (Date of service) 2018 (Response Date of service) Peace Corps Volunteer Job: Education/Literacy Evacuated from Belize 2018 for unrelated medical reasons Grenada Belize Peace Corps (U.S.)--2010-2020 Response Volunteer Post-Colonial English

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