Sam Gray of Boulder CO is a Peace Corps volunteer who has been in the Dominican Republic since March 4, 2014, when he began his in-country Peace Corps training.
Upon completing that training, Sam Gray of Boulder CO was assigned to an ecotourism project that is focused around a fledging kayaking business (http://kayaklimon.wordpress.com). That kayak business operates on the Laguna Limon, which is part of a system of lagoons in the north east part of the Dominican Republic that have been designated a Wildlife Refuge. The kayak business is a community-based ecotourism project that, led by trained guides, takes tourists deep into the reserve to experience its natural beauty. Sam Gray of Boulder CO reports that the area is incredibly beautiful.
The type of work that Peace Corps volunteers like Sam Gray of Boulder CO do is ultimately determined by the needs of host countries, and the potential of a Volunteer to contribute to these needs and to the Peace Corps' mission. Sam Gray of Boulder CO will be working closely with local business leaders and with the tourist hotels in a one hundred-mile radius, to direct business to this developing ecotourism area.
Sam Gray of Boulder CO is finding life in the Dominican Republic very different from life in the United States. He has no Internet access, and his host family has only intermittent electricity. The toilets flush, but there is no running water, and he is learning to take showers through a bucket with holes punched in the bottom.
Sam Gray of Boulder CO has degrees in Economics and International Affairs, which he received from the University of Colorado in 2013. He is one of more than seven thousand volunteers currently active in the Peace Corps.
Upon completing that training, Sam Gray of Boulder CO was assigned to an ecotourism project that is focused around a fledging kayaking business (http://kayaklimon.wordpress.com). That kayak business operates on the Laguna Limon, which is part of a system of lagoons in the north east part of the Dominican Republic that have been designated a Wildlife Refuge. The kayak business is a community-based ecotourism project that, led by trained guides, takes tourists deep into the reserve to experience its natural beauty. Sam Gray of Boulder CO reports that the area is incredibly beautiful.
The type of work that Peace Corps volunteers like Sam Gray of Boulder CO do is ultimately determined by the needs of host countries, and the potential of a Volunteer to contribute to these needs and to the Peace Corps' mission. Sam Gray of Boulder CO will be working closely with local business leaders and with the tourist hotels in a one hundred-mile radius, to direct business to this developing ecotourism area.
Sam Gray of Boulder CO is finding life in the Dominican Republic very different from life in the United States. He has no Internet access, and his host family has only intermittent electricity. The toilets flush, but there is no running water, and he is learning to take showers through a bucket with holes punched in the bottom.
Sam Gray of Boulder CO has degrees in Economics and International Affairs, which he received from the University of Colorado in 2013. He is one of more than seven thousand volunteers currently active in the Peace Corps.