“...Good intentions and good deeds but nauseating “progressive” world view...”
The Peace Corps has continued since Kennedy’s Camelot and has produced a largely negative overall result. We send college educated volunteers (well paid when they convert their humble salaries to local currency and they have dollars going into an account back home) who roll up their sleeves and do hands-on work. So we send labor to countries that have labor surpluses.
They do not keep the peace and when war comes, as in El Salvador in 1980, the Peace Corps gets out of the way. Look at the history of Honduras as taught on campuses. Standard Fruit is depicted at an exploiter of the people even though it brought jobs and income. The Peace Corps is depicted at a positive force even though it brought fat girls who eat at nice steak restaurants in cities like Danli and who insult locals by high-minded nebulas projects to help those who actually work.
Malawi is one of the african nations that does allow Christian missionaries. The Peace Corp may be as you say, I don’t know enough to attest generally, but they also have a negative conotation in my mind because of central America.
The Christian medical missions group for whom my granddaughter volunteers annually in Malawi is not the same. They are on a shoestring budget spending what they can for medical supplies to treat Malawan kids.
Charitable organizations vary in their mileage. The lady in the article *began* in the Peace Corp but it reads that she created a different organization to school girls and open an orphanage upon her return to the states. It says she works multiple jobs to fund these things. That’s not eating steak while natives starve...IMO