Liz

A native NYer myself, I was sent by the Peace Corps to live in a remote village in the High Atlas Mountains of Morocco 20 years ago. In 2011, I started CorpsAfrica, which is a nonprofit that creates the opportunity for Africans to serve like Peace Corps Volunteers in their own country. Last year, we hosted the first group of Moroccans serving in Morocco - living in a high-poverty, rural community for one year to facilitate a project that is identified by the community. This is a picture of Hiba (in the CorpsAfrica t-shirt), one of the first CorpsAfrica Volunteers, standing in the preschool she built in her village in the Azzoden Valley, next door to where I lived 20 years ago. And those are some of the 35 kids enrolled in the school this year. The picture was taken in September, 2014.