Peace Corps: Hearings and Markup Before the Subcommittee on International Development of the Committee on International Relations, House of Representatives, Ninety-fifth Congress, Second Session ...U.S. Government Printing Office, 1978 - 235 pages |
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$1 million ACTION activities administration agency amendment American appropriate technology areas basic human needs believe BONKER BROWN budget bureaucracy Chairman Church World Service commitment committee concern Congress Congressman Pease coordination Dellenback developing countries development assistance discussion efforts fiscal year 1979 foreign assistance funds GILMAN going HARRINGTON host country Hubert Humphrey Humphrey bill Humphrey-Zablocki bill IDCA increase independent International Development Institute kind Larry Brown looking Lutheran World Relief ment Minear options overseas Payton Peace Corps Act Peace Corps Director Peace Corps volunteers people-to-people poorest President private and voluntary private voluntary private voluntary organizations problems projects proposed PVO support PVO's question recruitment relationship reorganization request Sam Brown Sargent Shriver serve skills staff structure subcommittee technical teers things Third World tion U.N. volunteer U.S. development U.S. government understanding United United Nations volunteer VITA voluntary organizations volunteer program Washington WINN
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Page 160 - Congress, recognizing the fact that "women in developing countries play a significant role in economic production, family support, and the overall development process," required that US bilateral aid "be administered so as to give particular attention to those programs, projects and activities which tend to integrate women into the national economies of foreign countries, thus improving their status and assisting the total development effort.
Page 175 - The Congress of the United States declares that it is the policy of the United States and the purpose of this Act to promote world peace and friendship through a Peace Corps, which shall...
Page 178 - Corps shall be administered so as to give particular attention to those programs, projects, and activities which tend to integrate women into the national economics of developing countries, thus improving their status and assisting the total development effort.
Page 175 - Act to promote world peace and friendship through a Peace Corps, which shall make available to interested countries and areas men and women of the United States qualified for service abroad and willing to serve, under conditions of hardship if necessary, to help the peoples of such countries and areas in meeting their needs for trained manpower, particularly in meeting the basic needs of those living in the poorest areas of such countries,4 and to help promote a better understanding of the American...
Page 178 - USC 470) is amended as follows: (a) Section 108 is amended by deleting the. first sentence and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "There are authorized to be appropriated not more than...
Page 163 - In recognition of the fact that women in developing countries play a significant role in economic production, family support, and the overall development process of the national economies of such countries, this part shall be administered so as to give particular attention to those programs, projects, and activities which tend to integrate women into the national economies of developing countries, thus improving their status and assisting the total development...
Page 175 - ... a better understanding of the American people on the part of the peoples served and a better understanding of other peoples on the part of the American people.
Page 115 - Mr. Chairman and members of the subcommittee, I welcome this opportunity to appear before you to...
Page 161 - Budget that there is no objection to the submission of this legislation to the Congress and that its enactment would be in accord with the program of the President. Sincerely yours, GEORGE P.
Page 120 - PROMOTE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE ON THE PART OF PEOPLE SERVED; -TO PROMOTE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF OTHER PEOPLE ON THE PART OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE.