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Hi. I am in high school and I am writing a paper on the Peace Corps. My thesis is:
Although the Peace Corps faced much controversy and skepticism in their early years, they over came those challenges to serve humanity through the areas of health/HIV/AIDS awareness, education/youth development, and environment/agriculture.
If you were a volunteer and could give me some good quotes and information about your experience or someone elses experience if you weren't a volunteer or some good websites that would be great! Thanks so much. Oh and i really need information from volunteers who worked in one of the aforementioned categories. Thanks!

Also I need a product for this paper. And it can't be just a powerpoint or posterboard. Something more creative. Any ideas would be helpful!

The strength of the Peace Corps is it鈥檚 focus on Participatory Analysis for Community Action.(known as PACA) Volunteers live in host communities, speak the local language and live on the same economic level as the people they serve.

This integration into a community allows the volunteer to coach their friends and neighbors to identify priorities and use existing community strengths and assets to obtain sustainable solutions鈥?br>
Do I sound a like a text book? I was a Community Economic Development Volunteer in a small and isolated Amerindian Village in Suriname for two years and I am now the volunteer coordinator for our program. I live in the capital city, but I travel out around the country to train current volunteers and their Host Country counterparts in using the PACA method to write project proposals.

I found Peace Corps to be the best opportunity to serve humanity and my own country. I joined when George Bush was reelected, making good on the threat that, if that was to happen, I would leave the country. I decided to do something good to undo at least a small portion of the bad he was doing.

During my service I taught 8 children who had never seen a computer before how to use a mouse, type, open and close programs, right click and various other functions. I helped my local women鈥檚 group start making and marketing crafts to tourists. I taught English to village children. I wrote an illustrated an HIV coloring book, 2 HIV text books and did the technical publication design on Nutrition, Life Skills, Sexual Reproductive health, Water Sanitation and Hygiene, manuals produced by UNICEF and Peace Corps. I organized children to paint a huge mural on their school. I hos

You can read about my experiences, 1971 - 1972.
http://www.tedpack.org/pchead.html

There's a link there to the RPCV ring - 48 web sites by RPCVs.

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