Georgia Peace Corps worker killed in Africa

[AlphaCentauri]

Source: ajc

Kate Puzey settled into the West African nation Benin almost two years ago as a Peace Corps volunteer teaching English.

Relatives said she acclimated quickly, dining with local seamstresses and wise women, and attending a birthday party for a village child. Puzey, 24, wrote on her blog of witnessing a ritual circumcision and anticipating the start of mango season in April.

So her parents, Harry and Lois Puzey of Cumming, were devastated to learn last week that someone had killed their only daughter. Her body was found Thursday outside her home in Benin.

“We’ve been told they have a major suspect but we don’t know any details,” Harry Puzey said Sunday. “We don’t think her death was political or random but an individual act by one person.”

Lois Puzey said her daughter was a staunch defender of the “underdog.”



Read more: http://www.ajc.com/news/content/metro/northfulton/stories/2009/03/15/kate_0316.html

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. It's incredible that people are sent out by themselves to these remote

places. They are very brave & naive

[MasonJar]

2. So horribly sad and inexplicable.