(SOUND: Call on Skype)
SONIA MORHANGE: "Hey!"
FRIEND: "What's going on? I'm connecting my webcam."
SONIA MORHANGE: "Oh, awesome, I'll get to see you as well."
FRIEND: "I look like a mess right now. I was gonna get ready, but ... "
SONIA MORHANGE: "Did you just wake up?"
FRIEND: "Can you see me?"
SONIA MORHANGE: "Yeah, I can see you."
Sonia Morhange is one of about one hundred Peace Corps volunteers in Rwanda. She talks with a friend in California on Skype, an Internet calling service. She talks with her mother on the phone and e-mails her father.
SONIA MORHANGE: "I can't imagine having been a Peace Corps volunteer in the seventies or the eighties or even the early nineties. I'm just so used to everyone having a cell phone that works internationally. I'm very, very lucky in the fact that where I live I have wireless Internet and that makes it a lot easier."
Peace Corps volunteers receive a living allowance and other benefits in return for twenty-seven months of training and service.
John Reddy is the country director in Rwanda. He says fairly easy access to the Internet means that volunteers can do more than just call home.
They can research subjects to help their communities. And, through the Peace Corps Partnership Program, they can get donations online for their projects.
But John Reddy admits he sometimes misses the old days, before the Internet and good phone service. He says volunteers had more independence.
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