There are a fair number of PCVs in my area, and I was one once myself,
Into "Peter,Paul, and Mary," Huh? "Puff, the Magic Dragon," on your personal hit parade? I knew you used to sing kum ba yah :>)
The solution, in my view, is not better housing or more supervisor visits, but the recruitment of a much smaller number of much more qualified people, with real support from the home office. That would make security much easier to manage, and would also make the agency much more effective.
Your solution assumes that Bureaucrats get paid for being effective instead of for the number of people they supervise. It seems obvious that they are sending out a lot of clueless Female Liberal Arts Majors.
I found that Peace Corps series, not because of the subject matter, but because of the fight the Dayton Paper had with the Peace Corps Bureaucrats in getting it. Got National attention and made the "Media" papers. |