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On February 2, a crop of 30 Peace Corps volunteers arrived in Phnom Penh and inaugurated the new PC program in Cambodia.  This lot will be working as English teachers at the post-secondary level in seven provinces.  I am not yet sure where.  I have been watching the development of this program for a year or so, since the announcement was made that Peace Corps was moving ahead with a program over here.  When the news initially broke, they had mentioned that they were going to be recruiting both English teachers and public health educators.  However there have been no reports of the health folks yet– maybe they are staggering the groups.  They had also mentioned that they might be expanding into other thematic areas in the future.  I can only hope that this might include agriculture, and maybe a job opening! 

I tried to track down some newspapers to check the local media coverage of this event (there was a little paragraph in the local English language daily).  But I think I started hunting too late in the day, so there were none to be found.  Since I read well below grade level, it probably would have taken me a month to get through the article anyway.