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
Get Connected: With Tumblr and Instagram
By Brendan Bailes
For 20 years, we’ve been getting things done for America. Literally, all of the things.
You’ve seen us around, but now you can find us in more places. Today we’re launching two new accounts — because, you know, pictures.
In honor of National Volunteer Week, please check out the Corporation for National & Community Service on social media! If you are looking to get amazing Volunteer experience before applying to Peace Corps, they are a great place to start.
Welcome to Tumblr!
"Every day, Americans carry forward the tradition of service embedded in our character as a people."- President Barack Obama
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“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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Inspired by the acclaimed film Girl Rising, a Peace Corps Volunteer in Kathmandu, Nepal worked with youth and a women’s group in her Baglung community to create a mural to commemorate International Volunteer Day.
The main part of the mural roughly translates to “Let us make our Baglung beautiful, let us be Volunteers.”
(Thanks to Intern Nikki for the translation!)
"Life’s most persistent and urgent question is: ‘What are you doing for others?’"- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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“Mentors build leadership skills, confidence, and gain volunteer experience. The young students are able to ask questions of peers and build positive relationships.”
Peace Corps Volunteers are working in Mongolia to promote a partnership between two local non-governmental organizations focused on volunteerism and mentorship among Mongolian youth. They’ve teamed up with an organization that prepares young Mongolian students to study abroad, and collaborated with a community youth center. By bringing their individual projects together, they implemented a volunteering program that gives young adults the opportunity to mentor children and lead activities at the youth center.
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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
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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!
Peace Corps Volunteers worldwide commemorate Global Youth Service Day by working with children, youth and young adults to be more active citizens in their communities. This year, many Volunteers are using Global Youth Service Day activities to promote environmental awareness on Earth Day.
Observed April 20 to 22, Global Youth Service Day provides Volunteers with an opportunity to engage youth and local community members in long-term service projects. For more than 10 years, Peace Corps Volunteers and their community partners have celebrated Global Youth Service Day and Earth Day through various activities.
Throughout the year, Peace Corps Volunteers work with youth to foster skills for transitioning from school to work, and becoming engaged in their communities. Volunteers also develop extracurricular activities that help local youth build confidence and develop decision-making, communication and leadership skills that promote positive relationships with peers, parents and adults.
Five percent of Peace Corps Volunteers work in the youth in community development sector as their primary assignment, while another 40 percent of Volunteers work in the education sector.
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Got Agriculture or Environment education/experience? We have opportunities departing in 2012 available. Send us your resume! Or share/reblog this if you know someone who has what we are looking for!