Some more specifics for Liberia

The plane ticket came today, so the green light is on! There are 10 other people heading over and am excited to meet them all - we’re all Returned Peace Corps Volunteers.

I’ll be serving as an assistant to the Rural Teacher Training Institute (RTTI) Principal in either Zorzor or Kakata.

You can send mail to this address:
Micheal Miller
Peace Corps Volunteer
P.O. Box 707
Monrovia, Liberia
West Africa

Yeah ... about the mail service, from the Liberia Resource Handbook:

“Letter mail may be received at the above post office box number. Parcels may also be sent, but delivery is not reliable. If parcels are sent it is recommended to keep the tracking number for reference. Please keep in mind that mail delivery is nearly nonexistent in Liberia, so Volunteers should not count on receiving a lot of mail. Email is the best bet, but access will vary according to location.”


The civil war destroyed 80% of the schools. Currently there is no national power grid, meaning any electricity comes from generators or solar chargers. The telephone lines were destroyed as well, so my cell phone will be the means of communication and many of them also offer Internet access.

The foods that make up a Liberian diet are rice, plantains, fufu and dumboy (paste balls made of root vegetables), meat, pineapples, bananas, papaya, coconuts, mangos and other vegetables.

I COS in the last week of June, 2010.

Information about Liberia from wikipedia

Map of Liberia from google maps

from National Geographic