Applications are invited from suitably qualified persons to fill the position of Program Manager – Education for an international agency. Position will be filled as soon as a suitable candidate has been identified. Applications received after October 6, 2008 will not be considered.
See the attached .pdf for more info.
Not sure what to pack or have better ideas, check out the Peace Corps Wiki - http://www.peacecorpswiki.org/Packing_list_for_Guyana
Great blog post on the program by a Peace Corps Mongolia volunteer.
The RPCV Mentoring Program is now online and both potential mentors and mentees are signing up! Read through this email to learn more and to find out how your group can benefit and participate.
Background
The RPCV Mentoring program was started in 2007 with a fundamental goal in mind: to connect recently returned Peace Corps volunteers with RPCV mentors.
Via phone, email and face-to-face meetings, these mentors help ease the difficult transition, provide a connection to the RPCV community at large, and say some of the most comforting words in the English language, namely, “I know what you’re going through. I’ve been there.”
For NPCA member groups, this is also a great way to find and involve returning PCVs immediately with your group and to offer additional avenues to engage other RPCVs in your community.
How it works, in a nutshell
In the 2007 pilot program (in Miami, Chicago and Portland, OR), the groups also hosted an orientation, communicated regularly with the mentors and mentees and involved them in their activities and programs. You can do the same. There are resource materials on the website to assist and we’ll be communicating regularly with groups as this program builds.
How your group can participate
All NPCA member groups are invited – and encouraged! – to participate. To get started, simply designate an administrator for the group. Send me (at anne@rpcv.org) their name and email and I’ll contact them directly with instructions. You can be off and running in just a few short minutes.
At college commencement time, some graduates explore Peace Corps opportunities. For nearly 50 years, the agency has been sending Americans all over the world. Scott Simon talks with Robert Strauss, former country director of the Peace Corps in Cameroon. Strauss says that the Peace Corps has lost its edge for assisting developing countries and the U.S.
(via friendsofdaniel.blogspot.com)
The Peace Corps website last week, on the Peace Corps Response page, quietly posted a historical job description. It describes the first vacancy for a PC Volunteer in 19 years. Peace Corps Response is the new name for the agency’s short-term volunteer program, formerly known as the Crisis Corps. At the request of the Liberian government, the first volunteers back in Liberia will work in education.
The job description looks like this -
Partner: Possibly local and international NGOs, government ministries, and other organizations
Projected Start Date: September, 2008
Description: Peace Corps Response will play a pivotal role in Peace Corps’ re-entry into Liberia.
Interesting take on Peace Corps, I wonder what Sen. Dodd would have to say about this piece?
From the NPCA:
Do you know of a returned Peace Corps volunteer who continues to make a sustained and distinguished contribution to humanitarian causes at home or abroad? Someone who typifies the best qualities of the Peace Corps community?
If so, nominate him or her for the Sargent Shriver Award for Distinguished Humanitarian Service. The award was named to recognize the tremendous contributions of the first Peace Corps Director, Sargent Shriver, in the founding and development of the Peace Corps.
We welcome your nomination materials by June 2, 2008 to qualify for consideration.
Past winners and the nomination form (.doc)
An RPCV that served in Guyana represented at a Peace Corps Fair in Arizona, she has this to day about the event:
The PC fair was a smashing success! I printed some of the photos out for the poster and had the rest of the pics with captions in a slideshow running on the laptop…I only took a few photos at the PC fair because I was so busy the whole time answering all kind of questions about the Peace Corps in Guyana…Well, here’s a picture of me and the table… sorry the photo is a little dark.
(via breakingnewskenya.wordpress.com)
Peace Corps operations in Kenya will be temporarily suspended to ensure the safety of the 58 remaining Peace Corps Volunteers serving in Kenya. With growing instability in Kenya, and following the unrest associated with the recent elections on December 27, 2007, these Volunteers who remained working at their sites in the eastern, central and coastal regions of Kenya, will now be transitioning out of service.
Peace Corps Director Ron Tschetter said, “Our first priority is the safety and security of our Volunteers. Over 5,000 Peace Corps Volunteers have served in Kenya in the last 42 years, building deep friendships with the people there. The Peace Corps has become an integral and positive element of the U.S. partnership with Kenya and the Kenyan people.”
The 58 Volunteers from the eastern region of Kenya will be granted close of service in good standing, or offered an opportunity to transfer to another Peace Corps country. The ultimate goal of Peace Corps/Kenya is to return Volunteers to their communities in Kenya when the security situation improves. The Peace Corps staff will remain in Kenya and maintain the program during the temporary suspension.
Guyana News