About Us

We started service as Peace Corps Volunteers for Lesotho in November, 1986.  It was the Fall Omnibus for Agriculture and Education.  The Peace Corps is a US volunteer organization providing technical and educational assistance. The stated mission of the Peace Corps includes three goals: providing technical assistance; helping people outside the United States to understand US culture; and helping Americans to understand the cultures of other countries. Each Peace Corps Volunteer is an American citizen who works abroad for a period of 2 years plus after training in-country. [Wikipedia] In 1967, the first group of Peace Corps Volunteers arrived in Lesotho one year after the country gained its independence from Great Britain. Since then Volunteers have worked in the areas of education, agriculture, water and sanitation, health, small business development and HIV/AIDS prevention and care. [lesotho.peacecorps.gov] CONTEXT - When most of us served from 1987 to 1988 (some extended longer):The surrounding country, South Africa, was under the Apartheid System.

Lesotho now has one of the world's highest rates of HIV-AIDS infection; yet, then there were few if any reported cases.

The Lesotho Highlands Water Project had not been implemented.

We didn't use the Internet.

We didn't have cell phones.