Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-MR-2011-022
Michael (Mike) Castell served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco from 1966 to 1968 on public health and community development projects. He and his wife trained in Texas and received intensive French language training. However, they were stationed in an area of Morocco where the people spoke only Arabic and Spanish. Castell spent his first year working alone in a laboratory in a tuberculosis sanitarium. Finding this frustrating, the couple transferred to a remote village where Mike worked with an USAID-sponsored chicken-raising project designed to improve the nutrition of school children. The second year provided a satisfying working relationship with Mike's Moroccan counterpart, but the project came to a disappointing conclusion. Interviewed and recorded by Phyllis Noble, July 31, 2011. 2 tapes (web streaming files combined into 1 file).