Interested in the peace corps!!!!! please?

Question

hey everyone i want to know more about the peace corps does anyone have useful info r there any former peace corps helpers here? please let me know everything u know im very interested!!
thanks

Answer 1

They have an extensive website that you can read information about them and request an application. Some larger cities even have recruiting stations.
When I spoke to them when I was fresh out of college, they told me that they were most interested in people with TANGIBLE skills and degrees - things like electrician, plumber, carpenter, etc etc. Since I had a political science and sociology degree, I ended up not applying. Keep that in mind if you are looking to join them. Also, I believe they don't allow anyone with military experience to join either. Good luck!

Answer 2

That's a broad question! I am a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer and former Peace Corps trainer and staffer. Most of the 'useful' information is on the Peace Corps web site--http://www.peacecorps.gov/ However, the basics are: it's a 2 year commitment plus 8 to 10 weeks of in-country training, living conditions can be very basic but Peace Corps takes your safety and security very seriously, and it's usually a life changing experience for volunteers.

It's not generally a quick and easy process--it may take over a year for you to 'get in'--which means get invited to be a volunteer.

Here's the gist of what happens after you receive your invitation to become a volunteer:

1. You get all kinds of information by mail.
2. You go to a training site, usually in the country where you'll serve, to begin training. Training content, in my experience, contains the following: language, culture, skill content (like ESL methods and local education systems if you're teaching English), health and safety (and, as I said, Peace Corps is very serious about this), and Peace Corps policies and procedures (this will include emergency plans, communications, etc.).
3. Training is broken up in various ways in different countries. Usually, training is between eight and twelve weeks long. Almost always it contains a 'home stay' portion where you live with a local family for a while. Often it contains a project. Both those 'hands on' options are geared toward helping you learn language, culture, and generally accepted systems in the country.
4. Throughout training you will be evaluated--at least a couple of times. This will ensure that you've acquired the competencies necessary to live and work successfully and safely in your country of service.
5. You'll be sworn in as a Peace Corps Volunteer.
6. During your 24 months of service there will be mandatory in-service trainings, medical checks, and (usually) reporting in. There will also be site visits from Peace Corps staffers.

During service, most volunteers feel like they're on an emotional roller coaster, especially during the first six months or so. When I was a volunteer, I met amazing host country nationals, made solid friendships both within my local village and my Peace Corps Volunteer colleagues that continue to this day (gee, over 15 years now), and I learned a language not taught in US schools and traveled around the region where I was posted quite a bit. I once heard a Peace Corps Country Director say, "Peace Corps is the experience against which you will measure the rest of your life." The more time passes, the more I think he's right.

Answer 3

Unless you've a few particularly fascinating ability like farm equipment fix or irrigation revel in you are going to want a tuition measure to get into the PC. That being stated, so far as I recognise ANY measure is well, and additional, any commencement time is satisfactory too. Some folks had been contemporary outta institution, others hadn't set foot on a campus in a long time. You're at the proper monitor. The extra digging you do on-line the extra you'll be able to study approximately the PC. Blogs and journals of Volunteers are most commonly your satisfactory guess. They'll deliver you a gorgeous balanced view of lifestyles within the poorer components of the arena. Books are well too of path, it is simply that I uncover scanning the 'web to be plenty quicker for study. As for demographics my institution consisted of 39 folks: two/three feminine, age variety from 21 to 50+, vast variance of jobs and revel in, three married couples. Pretty typical slice of your typical American suburb. I suppose we represented like nine states however I'm now not constructive (the reminiscence fades). I used to be selected for jap Europe centered on 3 matters (I suppose): one million) whole and entire random risk. two) I've performed charity paintings there earlier than. three) I have large revel in with venture leadership and that is above all what plenty of the ones international locations want. They're at the avenue to capitalist progress however it is a LONG avenue to capture up. I consistently advocate the publication Only Bees Die (yep, although it is not a web based supply) considering that it tracks one illustration of an whole PC travel, commencing with the program procedure and completing with Close of Service.