Peace Corps Response provides qualified professionals the opportunity to serve in rewarding, short-term assignments, in various programs around the world. When you serve as a Peace Corps Response Volunteer, you bring your skills and experience to projects in places where you are needed most!

*You do not need to be a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer to qualify for some positions!

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This is my host brother having his hair washed by my host mom. He was born only a week after I arrived at my site. Because of that, it was always easy to remember how old he was. I took this picture close to the end of my service, so that means Jose is almost 2 years old here.

Peace Corps Agriculture Volunteer Sara Jablonski 

By popular demand, we’ve updated our Volunteer homes Flickr set. Check out these PCV cribs from around the world!

In honor of March Madness, here’s a great photo from our Digital Library. Peace Corps Youth Development Volunteer shared how she used basketball in her community:

This photo was taken in April 2011 in Guatemala. As an outlet and self-esteem builder, I started a basketball league for teenage girls from surrounding areas. This picture shows some of the girls wearing their newly donated jerseys from a family member in the states who works in the recreation department.

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During a sex education lesson in El Salvador, the youth group members hold signs to organize themselves in the process of condom application. - Peace Corps Volunteer Jessica Rogala

This photo was taken on May 22, 2011 during a soccer tournament. Honduras Peace Corps Youth Development Volunteer Ashley Bass was giving a “charla” or chat, about the proper use of a condom to a large group of young men during a break in a soccer tournament promoting the education and prevention of HIV/AIDS.

Costa Rica - 1994

A Peace Corps Education Volunteer in Belize works as camp counselor for a young girls education summer camp called Camp GLOW.