The Peace Corps will celebrate its 50th anniversary in 2011.
To record personal stories from former Peace Corps Volunteers,, camp construction workers and camp employees, a group of staffers from Washington, DC and Atlanta came to the former Peace Corps Training Camp at the Rio Abajo Rain-forest in Utuado, Puerto Rico last Saturday, September 19, 2009. Their first task was to walk around the camp facilities (as their are today) to have a first hand experience of what this was back en the 1960 decade. The camp was last used by the Peace Corps 1969. Probably this area will be considered to be part of the 50th anniversary. Afterward there was a gathering was all the attendees at a nearby Community Civic Center. Besides the Peace Corps representatives there was the City Mayor of Utuado and the Chancellor of the University of Puerto Rico at Utuado. These facilities are been rescued by a group of the community that had organized a Cooperative and the will convert them into a EcoTurism lodge and recreational area. It was abandoned for more than fifteen years and now are looking as before. |
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