Andrew H. Oerke

Andrew H. Oerke was a Peace Corps director in Africa and the Caribbean, and for many years president of a private volunteer organization, working in and visiting more than 160 countries. In 1966 in Kenya, Mr. Oerke started microcredit programs for small enterprise in poverty; later, he initiated microcredit programs in more than sixty nations around the world. His work has appeared in The New Yorker, The New Republic, Poetry, AGNI Online, and many other publications in the U.S. and abroad. In 2003, he was given the award for literature by the U.N. Society of Writers and Artists. (updated 10/2009)

AGNI has published the following work by Andrew H. Oerke:

•Self-Portrait