Christopher Marinello is a recent Peace Corps worker.There were rats in his house and a goat on his bed. Showers consisted of two buckets of water, and the outdoor temperature was “9,000 degrees.”
Would Chattanoogan Chris Marinello repeat his recent two-year Peace Corps experience in the Dominican Republic? You betcha.
“You learn these skills that you never would have learned before,” he said. “You can go in thinking you’re doing one thing and do everything else under the sun.”
Marinello was primarily a community-health extension agent in the Caribbean island country, but he also served as a translator, a conference convener, a grant writer and a water-system builder.
He said the Peace Corps stresses project design, implementation, monitoring and evaluation.