Interview with Arielle Benjamin, January 24, 2022
Project: Peace Corps: The Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Oral History Project
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Arielle Benjamin served in Ecuador from 2017 - 2019 in the city of Pajan in the province of Manabi, Ecuador as part of the Community Health Program. Benjamin found her love of dance as the source of her volunteer work with her community integrating health practices in bailoterapia. She describes her service as her "butterfly moment" that allowed her to feel more 'secure in the space that (she) occupies in her skin."Interview Accession
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Peace Corps (U.S.) Ecuador (Country of service) 2017-2019 (Date of service) Peace Corps Volunteer Job: Community Health bailoterapia Peru Pajan (Site of service) Manabi (Province) Peru Peace Corps Volunteer Job: WASH program Tanzania Venezuela Integration diversity English (Language) Spanish (Language) African Americans POC Peace Corps medical-related issues IDCEandIInterview Rights
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Benjamin, Arielle Interview by Russell Wolfgang Bucher. 24 Jan. 2022. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Benjamin, A. (2022, January 24). Interview by R. W. Bucher. Peace Corps: The Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Benjamin, Arielle, interview by Russell Wolfgang Bucher. January 24, 2022, Peace Corps: The Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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