Peace Corps Volunteers at work in Chile
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- Peace Corps Volunteer Phil Burgi worked with a community development project to help relocate and rebuild Trovolhue, which began experiencing annual flooding after the 1960 earthquake. As an engineer, Phil surveyed for the road, the plaza, the new school, and designed a new bridge and developed a site plan, 1965/1968.
- Peace Corps Volunteer Dave Fisk 1965-1967 worked in urban community development in Nueva Palena, Chile. Fisk worked with the community to create a housing cooperative and build homes during Chile's mid-1960s urban housing deficit. This self-help housing project received a lot of publicity from New York Times reporter, Juan de Onis, philosopher Walter Lippmann, Robert Kennedy, and President Nixon.