7,000 volunteers were evacuated from 60 countries amid the COVID-19 pandemic
“The Peace Corps were very supportive,” Mensh said. “They sent out an email and said they would refund a hotel for 14 days in your hometowns with a stipend for food. You’re leaving your job that you love. It was hard. But I’m extremely grateful to Peace Corps for helping me have a place to stay so that my mom could be safe.”
Jakob Leichtman, 23, and Jack Cashmere, 22, were serving together in the Peace Corps in Ecuador for two months and were awaiting their first placements when they were evacuated. Rather than put his 72-year-old father at risk, Leichtman decided to stay with his fellow evacuee at Cashmere’s family home in Bethesda, Maryland.
Olsen, the Peace Corps director, said the agency already is planning for the time when operations could resume. Leichtman said he was considering it. “I’ve been accepted to one graduate program and waiting to hear back from a few others that I’ve applied to,” Leichtman said, “but Peace Corps has been and always will be the dream.”
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