Your Assignment

After a year of waiting, writing papers, filling out forms, making appointments, sending in forms, explaining intimate details of my past to bureaucratic faceless requestors, it finally arrived:

Please review all the information in this packet and call your placement officer with your acceptance or any questions in 10 business days.

YOUR ASSIGNMENT
Country: Kenya
Program: Public Health
Job Title: HIV/AIDS and Hygiene Educator
Dates of Service: August 2006 – August 2008
Orientation Dates: May 23-25, 2006
Pre-Service Training (in Kitui): May 26 – August 6, 2006

A FEW FACTS
Official Name: Republic of Kenya
Capital City: Nairobi
Languages: Swahili (official), English (official), others
Official Currency: Kenya Shilling
Religions: Roman Catholic 28%, Protestant (including Anglican) 38%, indigenous beliefs 26%, Others 8%
Population: 31,012,000
Life Expectancy at Birth: 49
Land Area: 566,970 sq km (218,907 sq miles)
Land Boundaries: Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Uganda

Peace Corps first entered Kenya in 1965

Here is what the CIA says: http://www.cia.gov/cia/publications/factbook/geos/ke.html

Here is what the CDC says:
http://www.cdc.gov/travel/eafrica.htm#country

Here is what Lisa says:
Finally!