Board

friendsofcongo

Feb 10

DRC/Zaire Curated List of YouTube Videos

Jim Herne has kindly collected and shared a trove of DRC/ Zaire YouTube videos that may be of interest to this group. They are sorted...

Beth Duff-Brown

Feb 1

Born a Sin in Africa: Belgium's Lost Children

Born a Sin in Africa: Belgium’s Lost Children. Beth Duff-Brown, a member of our board who served in Kamponde, Kasai Occidental, from...

Jim Herne

Jan 26

My Path to the Peace Corps

My Path to the Peace Corps By Jim Herne RPCV Zaire, 1971-73 In the fall of 1968, I was a senior in college and like many of my classmates...

friendsofcongo

Nov 14, 2022

2022 Annual Fundraising Campaign!

Every year we raise funds so that we can continue to provide meaningful support to NGOs who are doing good work in DRC. In the past, we...

friendsofcongo

Oct 9, 2022

RPCV Board Openings

Dear former Peace Corps Volunteer in Zaire/Congo. One of our Board members is retiring and we would like to replace her position with two...

friendsofcongo

Oct 1, 2020

Congo Blog by Former Peace Corps Volunteer

One of our board members, Beth Duff-Brown, has returned to her Peace Corps post in Kasai Occidental three times since serving from...

Beth Duff-Brown

Jun 29, 2020

DR CONGO and COVID-19

This article is written by Peace Corps Friends of DR Board member Beth Duff-Brown, a veteran journalist and communications manager for...

Jim Herne

Apr 1, 2020

My Rwanda Volunteer Assignment – A Business Planning Seminar

By Jim Herne, April 2020 As someone who has spent a career in international development, and who has worked for two Farmer-To-Farmer...

Jim Herne

Jan 1, 2020

Return to Rwanda – What a Difference 30 Years Has Made!

By Jim Herne, January 2020 Between 1985 and 1990 I lived in Kigali, Rwanda, while I was managing the USAID funded Rwanda Private...

Jim Herne

Nov 15, 2017

Return to Kinshasa - My Volunteer Assignment

By Jim Herne Since retiring in late 2016 I have been contacting various organizations that implement “Farmer-to-Farmer” programs...

Jim Herne

Nov 1, 2017

Return to Kinshasa - Part 1

A return to Kinshasa – after more than 45 years… Jim Herne – PCV Congo/Zaïre ’71-‘73 Photo slide show of Jim's visit In July of 2017 I...