# Presentation: 416922

## Slide 1

## Mission and Goals

- To promote world peace and friendship by helping
- The people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women
- Promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the peoples served
- Promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans

## Slide 3

## Volunteer Programs

- Figures based on data as of 9/30/07
- Percentages do not total 100% due to rounding

**Education**
**36%**

**Health &****HIV/AIDS**
**21%**

**Business****Development**
**15%**

**Environment**
**14%**

**Youth**
**6%**

**Agriculture**
**5%**

**Other**
**4%**

## Volunteer Diversity

- Active Volunteers and trainees: 8,079
- Gender: 59% women, 41% men
- Marital status: 93% single, 7% married
- Minorities: 17% of Volunteers

- Average age: 27 years
- Volunteers over age 50: 5% (oldest Volunteer is 80)

**Age Distribution**

- Statistics based on data as of 9/30/07

## Volunteer Locations

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## Slide 7

## Peace Corps Teen Website

- Listen to music from all around the world
- Play trivia games and crossword puzzles
- Find interesting recipes and create an international feast
- Find volunteer activities in your area and post information about what you are doing in your community
- Find out more by visiting www.peacecorps.gov/teens

## The Coverdell World Wise Schools program offers lots of cool ways for you to connect to Peace Corps Volunteers and the countries in which they serve.

**Podcasts, Video, Pen Pals, and More!**

***Volunteer Voices*****:** Listen to Peace Corps Volunteers talk about their experiences through podcasts
- Travel around the world through your computer by viewing videos and slide shows

- Check out **www.peacecorps.gov/wws** and discover:

## Learn About Life as a Peace Corps Volunteer

- Find Peace Corps Volunteer pen pals for your class through Correspondence Match
- Invite returned Peace Corps Volunteers to your school with Speakers Match
- Sign up for our monthly e-newsletter, World Wise Window

**E-mail to wwsinfo@peacecorps.gov or call 800.424.8580, ext. 1450**

## Connect to Classrooms and Communities Around the World

- You don’t have to be a Volunteer to contribute to Peace Corps projects all over the world. Through our **Partnership Program**, you can donate money to specific Peace Corps projects.

- The Partnership Program allows you to choose a specific project to support and stay in contact with community members involved with it. Plus **100%** of your donation goes directly to the project.

## How Can You Help?

- Donate money directly to a project
- 	Visit www.peacecorps.gov and click on **“Donors”** to find out more about different Volunteer projects.
- Organize events to raise awareness about this program
- Promote the **Partnership Program** as a recipient for any fundraising your school does
- 	The Peace Corps Office of Private Sector Initiatives can help facilitate in-kind donations, such as books and school supplies, to host countries.
- 	**E-mail pcpp@peacecorps.gov for more information**

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## Expanding Your Horizons

- “The Peace Corps makes you suitable professionally because you learn about your strengths when you don’t have all the resources and things that you’ve had your whole life. You find out what your true value is.”
- 		─ Stefan Chacon, Ecuador

## Cultural Rewards

- “My experience has given me time to reflect on who I am and how I feel about the culture in which I’m living. This community is very generous and the culture is very giving. I hope that I can take those traits back with me to America.”
- 		─	Heather Petersen 	  	South Africa

## Making a Difference

- “I travel to rural schools to raise students’ awareness about HIV/AIDS. They might not be able to talk to their parents or teachers about AIDS because it causes discomfort. Since I’m kind of an outsider, it makes me approachable.”
- ─ Kaleb Brown, Ukraine

## Learning Another Language

- “I learned Spanish in high school, but it is very different when you have to speak it. There are two languages here, Spanish and Guarani, so, I’m learning both. Getting confident about speaking was key—now it’s *tranquilo*.”
- 		─ Tara Taylor, Paraguay

## Slide 18

## Learn More About the Peace Corps and Expand Your Horizons

- Talk to your teacher about working with World Wise Schools or raising money for international projects through the Partnership Program
- Talk to a returned Peace Corps Volunteer
- Visit our website at **www.peacecorps.gov**

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