Facts About Peace Corps Service

This is a 1964 edition of a Peace Corps produced fact book meant to inform prospective volunteers about the program. According to the table of contents, the following questions are covered in the fact book: who are the volunteers; how are volunteers selected; how are they trained; where are they at work; what about the draft, any language requirements; are there terms of service; are volunteers paid; what about transportation, health care; who is in charge of volunteers; can a volunteer be dropped; marriage and pregnancy policies; what about taxes, social security, insurance, student loans, civil service; and finally what happens when a volunteer completes his term of service? There is a form to send in for more information at the end

Peace Corps Facts

This is a 1965 edition of a Peace Corps produced fact book meant to inform prospective volunteers about the program. According to the table of contents, the following questions are covered in the fact book: who are the volunteers; how are volunteers selected; how are they trained; where are they at work; what about the draft, any language requirements; are there terms of service; are volunteers paid; what about transportation, health care; who is in charge of volunteers; can a volunteer be dropped; marriage and pregnancy policies; what about taxes, social security, insurance, student loans, civil service; and finally what happens when a volunteer completes his term of service

Arts And Crafts Volunteers Needed In Four Latin American Countries to Design And to Organize Village Level Artisan Cooperatives

Volunteers with handicraft and art skills have been requested by Bolivia, Chile, Colombia and Ecuador to help expand present efforts to develop and promote arts and crafts production. This program was planned in hopes of materially raising the standard of living of thousands of host-country artisans. Plans include design and redesign of new products, technical pro duction advice, the formation of producer cooperatives in villages, the for mation of central cooperative companies and the promotion and sale of the products to the U.S. and other mass markets. -- [p.1

Peace Corps in Asia

All over Asia—in India, Pakistan, Nepal, Afghanistan, Iran and Turkey—Peace Corps Volunteers are helping people adapt 20th century knowledge to ancient traditions to produce a better modern life. In agriculture, in education, in community development and many other fields, 1,500 Volunteers are sharing their skills so that people can look forward to a more productive future. This is one way to help old and honorable civilizations flourish in the modern world. -- [p.3

Home Economists

Volunteer home economists are helping to alleviate the acute shortage of professionally-trained teachers in the developing nations. Some Volunteers have had previous teaching experience or education courses. Many have note. The subjects include: human relations (personal appearance, community relations, the family), foods and nutrition (balanced diets, nutrition, food preservation and preparation), clothing (textiles, sewing), child care, home improvement (cleaning and decorating the home, sanitation in the home and environment), home management (planning expenditures, budgeting), and health (hygiene, first aid, health problems of children). -- [p.1

Language In The Peace Corps: Breaking The Sound Barrier

This document is about the language learning that Peace Corps volunteers go through for their work and the way language learning is taught by the Peace Corps. It has three articles on the topics with some specific locations and languages being touched on. There is a final page listing all languages, and the countries they are spoken in, that the Peace Corps taught at the time

Civil Engineers Needed For Challenging Peace Corps Assignments In Five Developing Nations

Five developing nations - Pakistan, Colombia, Brazil, Venezuela, and Ethiopia - have asked the Peace Corps for more than 60 Volunteer civil engineers. [...] This Rural Public Works Program was conceived and initiated in 1961 and its beginning coincided with the winter 1961 arrival of the first group of Volunteers in East Pakistan. Some of these Volunteers were able to provide valuable technical assistance in planning, designing and supervising the construction of sluice gates, small bridges and drainage systems which led to the success of this pilot program in its first year. -- [p.1

Peace Corps in Africa

Being a Peace Corps Volunteer in Africa is a special experience. Not only will you know new languages, new cultures and new peoples, but you will have had the unique opportunity to learn at first-hand how a colonial past and a new nationalism are shaping the destiny of a vital continent. Africa today is characterized by a creative surging as its peoples strive to find their own talents and traditions. But today\u27s Africa is also hampered by poverty, illiteracy and disease. Volunteers working with the peoples of Africa in classrooms and communities are meeting one of the great historical challenges as they help to shape the future of a continent. -- [p.15

Students of Government and Political Science in the Peace Corps

This a report about the importance and usefulness of political science majors to the Peace Corps. It is written from the point of view of a Mr. Bradford, presently completing his degree in political science at Swarthmore College, [who] prepared this report during the past summer when he worked as a summer staff intern at Peace Corps/Washington. -- [p.1] He writes on their usefulness in roles in community development, as teachers, in cooperatives, and in future endeavors

Experiences With Peace Corps’ Third Goal: Perspectives Of Peace Corps Mali Volunteers

When asked what the best part of their service was, the large majority of Peace Corps Volunteers will light up as they describe a cross-cultural experience or relationship. Peace Corps Volunteers want to share these sentiments with Americans. I conducted a qualitative case study by interviewing three fellow Peace Corps Volunteers and evaluating 35 survey responses, in order to explore Peace Corps Volunteers’ perceptions of Peace Corps’ Third Goal- to share a host country culture with Americans. The interviews were transcribed and then compared and contrasted. From the interviews and survey findings, it has been found that the Peace Corps Mali training program and interactions with Peace Corps Staff gives the impression that Goal 3 is not as important to meet as Goal 1- skills exchange and project development; Volunteers are not trained on techniques to share their experiences responsibly; Volunteers do not consider cultural exchanges as satisfying “work” due to its perceived, abstract nature in measuring the outcomes; and that the frustrations related to Goal 3 are also contributing to Volunteers carrying out unsustainable projects. It is concluded that the implementation of the recommendations of this study would put an action to Peace Corps Director Aaron William’s words of Goal 3 as one of his top priorities, showing Volunteers in the best way that Peace Corps believes all their goals carry equal weight of importance. Additionally, the lack in promotion of the importance of Goal 3 does not start in Peace Corps training, it comes from the culture of “Development” and American values, leaving Volunteers at a loss for how to meet Goal 3 successfully