Oral history
Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Collection
RPCV-ACC-2020-003
Katherine Ackerman Porter served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Malawi from 2011 to 2013 as a community health adviser. She did her language and cross-cultural training at Dedza College of Forestry and in Mkomeko, a village in southern Malawi. During the interview she tells how she supplemented her language skills with creative gesturing and dance. Fighting through malaria issues, Porter worked with Malawian counterparts in Dwambazi Rural Hospital and with a women's sewing group to help with its marketing efforts. Interviewed and recorded by Ivan Browning, September 25, 2019. 1 digital audio file. Note: The interview date given in the introduction is incorrect.