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I was visiting a Mongolian friend’s family in the countryside. Lots of children around and one of the teenage boys was showing me their horses. Everyone learns to ride in Mongolia and so the little boys on this horse are perfectly happy and confidant.
- Peace Corps Business Development Volunteer Judy Gates
Reading in Malawi
Ethiopia - 1973
Peace Corps Volunteers in Morocco held a Spring Camp for girls and boys. The camp focused on a different theme each day: Gender, Health, Environment, World of Work, and American Culture. Campers made environment collages, practiced public speaking, hiked, and shared about their long term goals. By the end of the week, the group of boys and girls that started out shy and unsure were confident and inspired, celebrating their shared experience and excited for the future!
Girls enjoying school in Indonesia
Peace Corps Volunteers organized a Readers Theater competition in Panama to actively engage their students in reading, writing and speaking English.
Readers Theater is an integrated learning approach in which students read a script aloud and use their voice, facial expressions and gestures to bring the scene to life – without stage settings, costumes or props. Nearly 200 students from fourth grade to high school performed in small groups to practice using their voice and intonation to tell the stories of childhood favorites from the U.S., including Dr. Seuss and Shel Silverstein, author of “The Giving Tree.” The competition, which included students from 15 different schools, gave the participants the opportunity to develop fluency and enhance their reading comprehension.
(Source: peacecorps.gov)
Nutrition and school gardens in Jamaica
“Bringing children a pack of colored pencils and a piece of paper may seem simple, but it has an incredibly powerful influence.“
- Peace Corps Education Volunteer Margaret Bridges
(Source: peacecorps.gov)
On a mountain top in Panama by Peace Corps on Flickr.
Peace Corps Volunteers Christelle Domercant and Ursula Wright recently practiced our Second Goal by sharing the story of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. with preschool students who are learning English in Costa Rica!
Giggling girls at school in Colombia - 2013
“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.
(Source: 1.usa.gov)
My postmate bought a large barrel that will eventually be used to make a compost tumbler. Today, we used it to do this.
(Source: emilybecker01-blog)