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Archive for May, 2009

The Peace Corps Lottery

(via peacecorpsonline.typepad.com) Amy Potthast writes: "The reason getting an invitation to Peace Corps becomes such a problem now is the way the nomination process works. If ...

Clean Water Project in St. Monica

Beneficiaries: Congratulations to Philip Chan, an RPCV from Guyana, who won our hearts - and our first small grant - with his proposal to assist a ...

Guyana: A profitable rainforest

(via economist.com) A MOST unusual document landed on your correspondent’s desk recently: a financial report from a rainforest. Iwokrama, a 370,000-hectare rainforest in central Guyana, announced ...

Brazil urges Guyana to open river bridge

(via etaiwannews.com) Brazil is asking Guyana to quickly open a border bridge that will give farmers in remote northern states better access to Central American and ...

A Bold New Peace Corps

(via huffingtonpost.com) The bold new Peace Corps was born today in room 2172 in the Rayburn House Office Building. It took place as members of the ...

The Peace Corps Crisis

(via HuffingtonPost.com) While Obama is building the domestic program up to at massive 270,000 volunteers, he intends to increase the Peace Corps budget only 10 percent, ...

National Peace Corps Association Job – Temporary Project Assistant, Africa Rural Connect

The National Peace Corps Association (NPCA) is seeking a temporary Project Assistant to help in the development and implementation of our innovative new program, Africa ...