The Barrios of Manta edition by Rhoda Brooks Earle Brooks Politics Social Sciences eBooks
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In February 1962, Earle and Rhoda Brooks, a young sales engineer and his schoolteacher wife, left home and friends in Illinois to serve as members of the Peace Corps in Manta, Ecuador. This book is an account of their life in the Peace Corps. The first book ever written by Peace Corps volunteers, it is a revealing chronicle of personal involvement, of people from vastly different cultures learning to know one another on the level of their common humanity.
Earle and Rhoda begin their story with their decision to enlist as trainees in President Kennedy’s people-to-people grassroots aid program. They describe their jubilation at being accepted, the initial testing in Chicago, and the briefings in New York. With warmth and humor, they recount their experiences during the four-month training period in Puerto Rico. This was a time of trials and learning, of physical exertion and mental and emotional challenge. Of the 100 men and women who had formed their original group, 61, including Earle and Rhoda Brooks, graduated from trainees to volunteers.
Earle and Rhoda were assigned to a community development project in Manta, a small fishing village on the coast of Ecuador. Here they would spend two years, working with the people, helping them to help themselves.
The Brookses’ story of Peace Corps life in Ecuador is no simple success story, no tale of triumph over staggering odds, rather it is one of beginnings, as these two young Americans put all their skills, knowledge, compassion, and ingenuity into an effort to provide humanitarian grassroots help in alleviating poverty and disease.
Their story also shares what they learned from their humble fisher-people friends and neighbors. From their rich and varied experience emerges a picture of Latin American life far different in focus, and in many respects, far truer, than that of learned economists and political pundits. It is an intimate, human picture of a land filled with paradoxes and beset by problems that yield no easy solutions. It is a picture of a quest for learning and sharing, not on a soapbox or in the press, but in the hearts and minds of the common people.
Now, in 2012, on the 50th anniversary of the founding of the Peace Corps and fifty years after their decision to join the Peace Corps, Rhoda Brooks has created a new Foreward and Afterword, to highlight the intervening years during which she and her husband adopted two Ecuadorian youngsters, ages 2 and 4, and brought them home to Minnesota. She tells of the growing up years of Carmen and Koki (Ricardo) in a suburban community west of Minneapolis, the birth of their biological son and the adoption of a mixed race daughter three years later. Brooks explores the challenges and opportunities presented in the raising of their bi-racial family, the pain and sorrow of the untimely deaths of her husband Earle and their daughter, Josie, as well as the excitement and apprehension generated by the return to Manta for a visit when the children were in their teens. Brooks continues the Afterword with the return to Manta of her five Ecuadorian grandchildren who, then in their teens, went to explore their roots and meet their own biological grandparents, aunts, uncles, and cousins. She concludes the final part of her story with an update into the lives of her seven grandchildren and the arrival of new great grandson, Brooks.
The Barrios of Manta edition by Rhoda Brooks Earle Brooks Politics Social Sciences eBooks
The excitement of this book by Rhonda and Earl Brooks is that it is the first of the books written by former Peace Corps Volunteers...this edition has been brought back to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Peace Corps. The Brooks take us thru their training in Puerto Rico where they had to learn to survive...then Manta, Ecuador where it became their second home and second family. Beautiful and thoughtful words from their experience and living conditions. Reminded me of Barbara Joe's book, "Triumph and Hope." The Brooks are ordinary people, but with a heart of gold and love for their new family...After you open this book, you will find it difficult to put down...it demands that you do something positive with your life, reach out! I recommend that you not only read their book, but read it out loud to your children and friends...perhaps a tour in the Peace Corps might be in store for you after you open the first page...BobBob Arias
Peace Corps Response Volunteer/Colombia 2011-2013
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The Barrios of Manta edition by Rhoda Brooks Earle Brooks Politics Social Sciences eBooks Reviews
Wonderful Peace Corps experience from the 1960's
I first read this book in the 60's and was fascinated. The Peace Corps was new. Now it is 50 years old. I found the rereading of the The Barrios of Manta provided an appreciation of the young couple who chose to serve and of the innovation they provided. Most of all, it was the Brook's love of people which propelled their lives and the people of Manta were elevated by the untiring couple.
Rhoda and Earle do a fabulous job of telling about their 2 year time in the Peace Corps at its inception. Their insights into living and working in a third world country as well as trying to work with the people to create solutions to community problems are very thoughtful. Anyone who has traveled to a similar country to do similar work will really identify with the struggles they encountered and the triumphs they had.
If you are interesed in the Peace Corps, or simply 'development issues' in the so-called 3rd World, you can't do better than the Barrios of Manta. The descriptions of Earle & Rhoda Brooks are exquiset and expansive, the sotry compelling and the lessons for the rest of us motivating. I found it to be a proverbial page-turner and hope that you agree. Bravo for the effort to re-publish as an affordable and simply inspirational e-book!
The Brooks did such a wonderful job of brining the people living in the Barriors of Manta to life. The love the had for the community they lived in shone through on every page, even with the frustrations. As a RPCV, I love reading books about the Peace Corps experience, and this is one of my favorites. Partly because it tells the story of the early Peace Corps operations and trainings (somewhat different than when I served.) And mainly because is shows how the community you live in becomes part of your heart.
Very informative about the life of the very first Peace Corps Volunteers. Rhoda and Earle's love for the people, their hard work and long days and their creative ideas shine through. I highly recommend it and am grateful for the work of the Peace Corps Volunteers.
Ginny Corzine
I had read this book many years ago and was delighted to reread it again. Having lived through similar situations I easily could identify with the authors. After many years now of life and experiences I found that I can appreciate this book even more. I think the descriptions of people, places are very well written as well as all the feelings and emotions of this young couple as they confront a different culture and learn to appreciate it and love it.
The excitement of this book by Rhonda and Earl Brooks is that it is the first of the books written by former Peace Corps Volunteers...this edition has been brought back to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the Peace Corps. The Brooks take us thru their training in Puerto Rico where they had to learn to survive...then Manta, Ecuador where it became their second home and second family. Beautiful and thoughtful words from their experience and living conditions. Reminded me of Barbara Joe's book, "Triumph and Hope." The Brooks are ordinary people, but with a heart of gold and love for their new family...After you open this book, you will find it difficult to put down...it demands that you do something positive with your life, reach out! I recommend that you not only read their book, but read it out loud to your children and friends...perhaps a tour in the Peace Corps might be in store for you after you open the first page...Bob
Bob Arias
Peace Corps Response Volunteer/Colombia 2011-2013
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