The Peace Corps Volunteer's Handbook

The Peace Corps Volunteer's Handbook

Author: Travis Hellstrom

Publisher: Hatherleigh Press

Published: 2019-02-26

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 1578266467

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THE PEACE CORPS MAY BE “THE TOUGHEST JOB YOU’LL EVER LOVE,” BUT YOU DON’T HAVE TO LEARN THAT THE HARD WAY. The Peace Corps Volunteer’s Handbook is both your guide and your companion. Learn from the experiences of outstanding former Volunteers, while cataloging your own experiences with the Peace Corps from the very beginning of your service to the end. Designed to be with you each step of the way—from applying to Peace Corps, starting your service, adjusting to your host country, and making your way home again—this handbook combines the best parts of a guidebook with all the creativity of a personal journal. This is the handbook every Peace Corps Volunteer wishes for, something no one has provided before—a chance to set down on paper all the amazing experiences the Peace Corps has to offer, right next to the memories of the Volunteers who came before. What are you waiting for?


When the World Calls

When the World Calls

Author: Stanley Meisler

Publisher: Beacon Press

Published: 2011-02-22

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0807095478

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A complete and revealing history of the Peace Corps—in time for its fiftieth anniversary When the World Calls is the first complete and balanced look at the Peace Corps's first fifty years. Stanley Meisler's engaging narrative exposes Washington infighting, presidential influence, and the Volunteers' unique struggles abroad. He deftly unpacks the complicated history with sharp analysis and memorable anecdotes, taking readers on a global trek starting with the historic first contingent of Volunteers to Ghana on August 30, 1961.


It Depends

It Depends

Author: Kelly Branyik

Publisher: Write with Light Publications LLC

Published: 2017-08-30

Total Pages: 117

ISBN-13: 9780980236675

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It Depends" is a Peace Corps guide dedicated to present and future volunteers preparing for their first, second, or even third Peace Corps Journey. The title was inspired by the phrase often used by Peace Corps staff when volunteers asked questions about what to expect during their service. The Peace Corps staff always settled on the same answer, "It Depends." This guide draws from past volunteers' individual experiences as well as the author's personal journey and presents real stories, ideas, experiences, and advice on how to make the most of the Peace Corps lifestyle, experience, and journey. The author will take you through the Peace Corps life from start to finish, from considering Peace Corps to closing out your service. This guide is short, informative, fun, and will get any person considering Peace Corps excited to start the adventure and assist current volunteers in finding their next passion in life once their passion for Peace Corps has been completed.


Culture Matters

Culture Matters

Author: Craig Storti

Publisher: Government Printing Office

Published: 2011-02-11

Total Pages: 268

ISBN-13: 9780964447233

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Peace Corps Information Collection and Exchange Publication No. T0087. Provides a map to guide Peace Corps volunteers through their cross-cultural experience and also a way for them to record thoughts and feelings as they live and work in a host country. Contains a variety of exercises, as well as stories and quotations from Volunteers who have served in the past, from experts on cross-cultural training, and from the kind of people a volunteer might expect to meet in a new country.


Making Peace with the World

Making Peace with the World

Author: Richard Sitler

Publisher: Other Places Publishing

Published: 2010-03-10

Total Pages: 170

ISBN-13: 0982261985

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Photo-documentary of Peace Corps volunteers serving communities around the world.


Voices from the Peace Corps

Voices from the Peace Corps

Author: Angene Hopkins Wilson

Publisher: University Press of Kentucky

Published: 2011-04-08

Total Pages: 413

ISBN-13: 0813129753

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Based on more than one hundred oral history interviews, [this title] follows the the experiences of Kentuckians who chose to live and work in other countries around the world, fostering close, lasting relationships with the people they served. -- jacket.


Chai Budesh? Anyone for Tea?: A Peace Corps Memoir of Turkmenistan

Chai Budesh? Anyone for Tea?: A Peace Corps Memoir of Turkmenistan

Author: Joan Heron

Publisher: PublishAmerica

Published: 2008-09-08

Total Pages: 333

ISBN-13: 1456045822

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She was a sixty-two-year-old California grandmother, retired program director and college professor when she joined the Peace Corps. Within months, Joan Heron found herself in Turkmenistan, a small, impoverished country born out of the collapse of the Soviet Union. Using meager resources, a beginner’s grasp of the Russian language, tremendous trust in friendship and a can-do will, Ms. Heron embarks on a two-year adventure in an alien, male chauvinist, often obstructionist environment. Her compelling true story, told with humor and immense compassion for the people and their plight, reaches across borders, cultures and politics to illuminate the strength and riches of the human spirit.