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No More Coffee Runs: Two Years Of Service With The Peace Corps
For anyone who is interested in development, the Peace Corps offers an entre into the highly-competitive world of international aid work.
Do you have agriculture and environment skills? Put them to work in Zambia! Apply by 8/30/14 to depart in January 2015 for these positions:
Linking Income, Food, and Environment Volunteer
Learn more about the new application process in this short (and adorable) video!
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We’ve just announced historic changes to our application and selection process! Get started here http://1.usa.gov/WeLKpY
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The President wants YOU to consider becoming a Peace Corps Volunteer!
We’ve made it easier than ever with our new application and selection process http://1.usa.gov/WeLyXM
"Every day, Americans carry forward the tradition of service embedded in our character as a people."- President Barack Obama
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Maria von Trapp, the last surviving sibling of seven brothers and sisters who were portrayed in “The Sound of Music,” died on Tuesday at her home in Stowe, Vt. She was 99.
Years later, the matriarch of the Von Trapp family, also named Maria, penned this letter to President Kennedy, offering her advice on the Peace Corps.The elder and younger Maria both acted as missionaries in Papua New Guinea and Fiji.
From the White House Name File, Box 2821, Trapp
“Peace Corps Week is about sharing the Volunteer experience and the incredible cultural exchange that results from Peace Corps service. I encourage both current and returned volunteers to participate in Peace Corps Week to share the world with their local communities and bring Peace Corps service to life.” - Acting Director Carrie Hessler-Radelet
HAPPY PEACE CORPS WEEK 2014!!
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Are you ready to map your Peace Corps future?
Check out this new interactive tool for information about Volunteer openings by country, work area, and departure month to help you plan ahead!
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"Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: ‘What are you doing for others?’"- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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In honor of the National Conference on Volunteering and Service, the world’s largest gathering of volunteers, we challenged returned Volunteers to sum up their service experience in just six words and share on Twitter and Instagram.
#MyServiceIn6 submissions were funny, inspiring and genuinely moving. The word cloud highlights the most frequently used words.
How would YOU describe your service in 6?
"Everybody can be great…because anybody can serve. You don’t need a college degree to serve. You don’t have to make your subject and verb agree to serve. You only need a heart."- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. - February 4, 1968
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“I feel that my father’s greatest legacy was the people he inspired to get involved in public service and their communities, to join the Peace Corps, to go into space. And really that generation transformed this country in civil rights, social justice, the economy and everything.”
- Caroline Kennedy