Pacific Islands Monthly
The news magazine of the South Pacific · since 1930
Pacific Islands Monthly, 1 July 1967Vol. 38, No. 7

For Tonga

p. 34 · Read in the full issue

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Peace Corps Group

The Tongan Government has approved a plan for 113 Peace Corps volunteers to work in the kingdom from next January. It will ask for 90 men and 23 women volunteers to work in the fields of education, agriculture and medicine.

More than 70 of the volunteers will be primary school teachers, specialising in English, social studies and science. The re mainder will include 16 nurses.

The only local expense in volved will be the provision of a central headquarters, and low cost housing in the villages where the volunteers will live and work.

In view of Tonga’s traditional relationship with Commonwealth countries, this development in American aid is being regarded as a test scheme.

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