Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-ACC-2020-050
Peter Kircher served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador from 1973 to 1975 in a bilingual education project. He had lived in many international locations as a child and decided in 6th grade that he wanted to join the Peace Corps. As Kircher already spoke Spanish, his language training focused on Quichua (Kichwa). He then worked with three other volunteers to build schools in local indigenous communities that were interested in having their children become bilingual in Spanish and Quichua. The schools would allow bilingual teachers to live directly in the communities. Interviewed and recorded by Tamatha Nibert, June 21, 2019. 2 digital audio files (web streaming files combined into 1 file).