It provides an alternative to a life on the dole. a life without hope. There are two groups in America who especially require the services of a Domestic Peace Corps. These are the migrant workers and American Indians. The Domestic Service Corps man can serve the migrant workers by mobilizing local leadership to undertake community efforts to improve sanitary conditions and to establish easily organized and simply run day care centers to care for children of migrant workers while their parents are in the field. These projects would be basic and inexpensive. would give the communities of migrant workers a sense of accomplishment. and would help the migrants improve their living conditions. Another area where Domestic Service Corps men could help the migrant workers to help themselves is by expanding educational opportunities and services for both migrant children and adults and would attack the migrants main bar to advancement. lack of education. As the high illiteracy rate of migrant workers drops. they will be more easily assimilated into the American scene and may begin to reap the fruits of being American. Thirdly. corpsmen could serve as liaison between migrant workers and services provided but not utilized by migrants often because the migrants do not know about these services. Corpsmen could also serve to bridge the gap between migrants and communities through which the migrants pass. since mutual distrust and misunderstanding between the two groups often lead to the local communitys lack of interest in helping the migrant to improve his condition. By encouraging the migrants to undertake selfimprovement projects and by encouraging local residents to sponsor youth clubs and recreational projects as well as other joint programs. corpsmen would bring local community residents and migrants closer together in the realization that improving the lot of the migrant is in the best interest of the community as well as the migrant. A second group urgently needing the services of the Domestic Peace Corps men are the Indians. both on and off reservations. They are all but forgotten people. the problems of the American Indian are all but unknown to most of the Nation.
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