In Class With Peace Corps Volunteers in Africa, Asia
02 March 2011
Amanda Pease is a Peace Corps science teacher in Sierra Leone
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
This week marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Peace Corps. President John Kennedy began the program in nineteen sixty-one. The Peace Corps sends American volunteers to provide technical assistance in education and other areas in developing countries.
Amanda Pease is one of almost forty volunteers serving in rural schools in Sierra Leone.
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Ms. Peace teaches science at Saint Joseph’s, a high school in eastern Sierra Leone. She studied chemical engineering at the University of California, Los Angeles. She decided to serve for two years in the Peace Corps after she finished her degree.
AMANDA PEASE: "I was trying to decide between going the academic route and doing a postdoctoral degree and go into industry, and then I had been doing some volunteer work and the idea was kind of always of floating around."
Peace Corps volunteers left Sierra Leone in nineteen ninety-four because of civil war. But now they are back.
Science teachers are in especially short supply. Efforts in Sierra Leone to get more children through primary school have led to crowded high schools.
Amanda Pease is the only chemistry and physics teacher at her school. She says she has to work hard to get students more interested in learning, as she thought they would be.
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