Fears for Peace Corps Volunteers Told
The director of the Peace Corps said she fears for the safety of volunteers serving in Arab countries after the U.S. bombing of Libya.
“Needless to say, we are concerned,” Loret Miller Ruppe said Friday.
Ruppe said the five Peace Corps volunteers serving in Sudan, where a State Department employee was shot Tuesday, have been recalled.
The U.S. action against Libya creates a greater need for Peace Corps volunteers, she said.
“We’re going to need more of the people-to-people effort to convince the world that America has a heart and cares,” she said.
“Our volunteers are working on the daily terrorism of hunger and poverty, which is what’s behind all of this in the first place.”
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