HCLL presents ‘Life in Azerbaijan’ on March 1 – Park Rapids Enterprise

The Headwaters Heart for Lifelong Studying presents Rebecca Rowe talking on “Life in Azerbaijan” on Tuesday, March 1.

This system runs from 1 to 2:30 p.m. on the Armory Arts and Occasions Heart in Park Rapids, and is open to the general public, freed from cost and handicap accessible.

Contributed / HCLL

Rowe served for 2 years within the Peace Corps in Azerbaijan, a post-Soviet, principally Muslim nation situated north of Iran and south of Russia.

She is going to handle matters starting from nationwide service, schooling methods, faith and society to jobs, the economic system and extra.

Rowe realized Azerbaijani and lived with a neighborhood host household throughout her Peace Corps service. She labored with native communities within the area of Yevlakh on social and financial growth programming and bettering native entry to pc schooling, data expertise and financial alternative.

Essentially the most particular a part of her expertise, Rowe says, was the relationships she constructed with now lifelong mates in the neighborhood. The hospitable folks of Yevlakh, Azerbaijan every day welcomed her into their houses and households, all having fun with alternatives to develop, share and study collectively.

Rowe stays keen about Azerbaijan due to the kindness, collaborative spirit and goodwill shared together with her throughout her time there.

Her presentation is a chance to study a rustic that sits on the crossroads of Europe and Asia. Azerbaijan’s capital was a major purpose for the Germans within the Battle of Stalingrad throughout World Battle II. It sits on the shores of the Caspian sea, the world’s largest inland physique of water – even larger than Lake Superior.

It is usually an opportunity to discover the function of the Peace Corps, an company established by Pres. John F. Kennedy in 1961.