Our Mission

HoTPCA aims to promote world peace and friendship by:

  • Engaging, uniting, and supporting the Peace Corps community in Central Texas.

  • Organizing and supporting activities that cultivate cultural understanding.

  • Supporting sustainable community-building projects both locally and overseas.

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HoTPCA donates to Stoves Saving Lives

Girl cooking pancakes on concrete stoveIn 2011, HoTPCA donated $1000 to Max Greenblum’s Stoves Saving Lives project in El Salvador.

The photo at the right shows a girl cooking pancakes on one of these low-cost, fuel-efficient stoves.

Read the full report.

HoTPCA Donates to YESSERA

YESSERA Trainees

YESSARA trainees start a bamboo products business

In 2011, HoTPCA donated $850 to Young Ethiopian Self Sufficiency Enhancing Re–education Association (YESSERA) to support one student.

The photo shows previous graduates of the program.

Read the full report.

Casa de Katie Update

In 2010 HoTPCA made a $335 grant to Amigos de las Escuelas project in Rio Bravo – known as Casa de Katie.

Casa de Katie has benefited in the past by many donations.  The donations were either distributed to needy families, sold for money to pay expenditures or used at Casa de Katie in the kitchen, education room, internet room, etc.  We again are asking for donations and some suggested items are:

*** children’s clothing from baby to teens, kitchen items of every type, toys especially Legos & blocks & K-neks & games, musical instruments like guitars, tools especially a jigsaw and table saw, electrical items, TVs, furniture, fans and building material ***

Donations will be gathered up in Austin for delivery to Rio Bravo.  If you can make donations, please contact Jim Maxwell at fjmax@peoplepc.com. Read the full Spring-Summer 2011 Casa de Katie Report.

Peace Corps Advocacy Day, Capitol Hill

Kay Bailey Hutchison with RPCVs at PC Advocacy Day Texas RPCVs visited Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison’s office during Peace Corps Advocacy Day on Capitol Hill on Sept. 22, 2011 for the 50th Anniversary of the Peace Corps.