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Author : Travis Hellstrom
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0557570980
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (575 download)
Download or read book Unofficial Peace Corps Volunteer Handbook written by Travis Hellstrom and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kelly Branyik
Publisher : Write with Light Publications LLC
ISBN 13 : 9780980236675
Total Pages : 117 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (366 download)
Download or read book It Depends written by Kelly Branyik and published by Write with Light Publications LLC. This book was released on 2017-08-30 with total page 117 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Stanley Meisler
Publisher : Beacon Press
ISBN 13 : 0807095478
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (7 download)
Download or read book When the World Calls written by Stanley Meisler and published by Beacon Press. This book was released on 2011-02-22 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Travis Hellstrom
Publisher : Hatherleigh Press
ISBN 13 : 1578266467
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (782 download)
Download or read book The Peace Corps Volunteer's Handbook written by Travis Hellstrom and published by Hatherleigh Press. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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?
Author : Craig Storti
Publisher : Government Printing Office
ISBN 13 : 9780964447233
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (472 download)
Download or read book Culture Matters written by Craig Storti and published by Government Printing Office. This book was released on 2011-02-11 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Peace Corps (U.S.). Information Collection and Exchange
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Nonformal Education (NFE) Manual written by Peace Corps (U.S.). Information Collection and Exchange and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Peace Corps (U.S.). Office of Planning, Policy, and Analysis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book Peace Corps Volunteer Handbook written by Peace Corps (U.S.). Office of Planning, Policy, and Analysis and published by . This book was released on 1996 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Angene Hopkins Wilson
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813129753
Total Pages : 413 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)
Download or read book Voices from the Peace Corps written by Angene Hopkins Wilson and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2011-04-08 with total page 413 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Joan Heron
Publisher : PublishAmerica
ISBN 13 : 1456045822
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (56 download)
Download or read book Chai Budesh? Anyone for Tea?: A Peace Corps Memoir of Turkmenistan written by Joan Heron and published by PublishAmerica. This book was released on 2008-09-08 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Peace Corps (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (327 download)
Download or read book PACA written by Peace Corps (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This idea book was designed to give a focused history and description of Participatory Analysis for Community Action (PACA), while sharing excellent examples from the field that illustrate how volunteers and their communities, host country organizations, and Peace Corps projects have used these tools successfully.
Author : Philip Weiss
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0061969923
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (619 download)
Download or read book American Taboo written by Philip Weiss and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2009-03-17 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1975, a new group of Peace Corps volunteers landed on the island nation of Tonga. Among them was Deborah Gardner -- a beautiful twenty-three-year-old who, in the following year, would be stabbed twenty-two times and left for dead inside her hut. Another volunteer turned himself in to the Tongan police, and many of the other Americans were sure he had committed the crime. But with the aid of the State Department, he returned home a free man. Although the story was kept quiet in the United States, Deb Gardner's death and the outlandish aftermath took on legendary proportions in Tonga. Now journalist Philip Weiss "shines daylight on the facts of this ugly case with the fervor of an avenging angel" (Chicago Tribune), exposing a gripping tale of love, violence, and clashing ideals. With bravura reporting and vivid, novelistic prose, Weiss transforms a Polynesian legend into a singular artifact of American history and a profoundly moving human story.
Author : Peace Corps (U.S.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)
Download or read book Programming and training written by Peace Corps (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Tom Fleming
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780595429974
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)
Download or read book Taxi to Tashkent written by Tom Fleming and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a police state This is a democracy This is rot-gut vodka This is $2 prostitutes This is Peace Corps This is good intentions This is Ramadan This is loyalty This is power outages This is corruption This is the Silk Route This is the former USSR This is Uzbekistan Tom Fleming went to Uzbekistan as a forty year old Peace Corps volunteer. He was a fish out of water, an infidel in a Muslim land, teaching AIDS prevention and sex education in the most conservative region of Central Asia. With humor and poignancy "Taxi to Tashkent" portrays a land little known in the West. Instead of a nation rife with Islamic extremists as portrayed in the Western media, Fleming discovers a land of Korean discos, where blue eyed Muslims listen to Shania Twain, and where shop owners break into applause at the mention of America. Fleming travels throughout Uzbekistan, from the ecological disaster site of the Aral Sea, to the ancient Silk Route cities of Bukhara and Samarkand. "Taxi to Tashkent" describes a little-known corner of the world where nothing appears as it seems.
Author : Gregory John Orr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 566 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (31 download)
Download or read book Learning Chicheŵa written by Gregory John Orr and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 566 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Parker Borg
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781935925019
Total Pages : 498 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (25 download)
Download or read book Answering Kennedy's Call written by Parker Borg and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 498 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifty years after President Kennedy signed the 1961 Executive Order creating the Peace Corps, nearly 100 former volunteers who joined the new organization in the first year for service in the Philippines recall why they joined, what they experienced, and how this service in the Philippines affected their lives. In addition a half dozen members of the Peace Corps staff in the Philippines and a similar number of Filipinos have contributed their recollections from the period. The book includes photos of individuals from both the 1960s and more recently as well as maps showing communities of service. The Peace Corps program in the Philippines was the first in Asia. Three factors set it apart from others during the early years of the Peace Corps' existence. First, it was the largest program in the world, absorbing 25 per cent of all volunteers at the beginning. Second, all volunteers in the first years were assigned to be "teacher's aides," a position that was never clearly defined and that the Country Director later admitted was a "non-job." And third, the Philippine program occurred in a nation that only fifteen years earlier had become independent from the US, having been America's single effort at establishing an imperialist colonial empire. This history gave the Philippine program a distinctly different political and social dynamic from what was the case in all of the other early Peace Corps countries. These are the reminiscences of a group of young Americans of varying degrees of idealism who answered President Kennedy's call to do what they could for their country. Assigned each to a separate school in the central part of the country, they lived far from the bright lights of Manila. The stories illustrate varying degrees of integration into the local culture, different ways of coping with the frustrations of their "non-job," and what many learned as they came to terms with themselves living far from familiar comforts on a salary of about $55 per month. Above all the stories tell of the determination and spirit of these early volunteers in establishing a strong basis for one of the important first Peace Corps programs.
Author : Joseph de Rivera
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 9781441918666
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (186 download)
Download or read book Handbook on Building Cultures of Peace written by Joseph de Rivera and published by Springer. This book was released on 2011-11-13 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mediation and negotiation, personal transformation, non-violent struggle in the community and the world: these behaviors – and their underlying values – underpin the United Nations’ definition of a culture of peace, and are crucial to the creation of such a culture. The Handbook on Building Cultures of Peace addresses this complex and daunting task by presenting an accessible blueprint for this development. Its perspectives are international and interdisciplinary, involving the developing as well as the developed world, with illustrations of states and citizens using peace-based values to create progress on the individual, community, national, and global levels. The result is both realistic and visionary, a prescription for a secure future.
Author : Ursula Pike
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781597146708
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (467 download)
Download or read book An Indian Among Los Indígenas written by Ursula Pike and published by . This book was released on 2025-04-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Now in paperback: a gripping, witty travel memoir that offers "a fascinating look at voluntourism from an Indigenous perspective" (Book Riot) "Ursula Pike's memoir is unlike any other I've read, with her perceptive, always-seeking, and lovely narrative voice." --Susan Straight, author of Mecca "This book is alive with a spirit that welcomed mine to meet it." --Elissa Washuta, author of White Magic When she was twenty-five, Ursula Pike boarded a plane to Bolivia and began her term of service in the Peace Corps. A member of the Karuk Tribe, Pike sought to make meaningful connections with Indigenous people halfway around the world. But she arrived in La Paz with trepidation as well as excitement, "knowing I followed in the footsteps of Western colonizers and missionaries who had also claimed they were there to help." In the following two years, as a series of dramatic episodes brought that tension to a boiling point, she began to ask: What does it mean to have experienced the effects of colonialism firsthand, and yet to risk becoming a colonizing force in turn? An Indian Among los Indígenas, Pike's memoir of this experience, upends a canon of travel memoirs that has historically been dominated by white writers. It is a sharp, honest, and unnerving examination of the shadows that colonial history casts over even the most well-intentioned attempts at cross-cultural aid. With masterful deadpan wit, it signals a shift in travel writing that is long overdue.
