This area is intended to provide answers to questions you may have about Peace Corps Volunteers and current projects that they are working on. A link button has been provided on the menu screen. Volunteers in all Peace Corps countries must participate in an intensive three- month training program immediately upon arriving in country. In Kyrgyzstan, new trainees usually arrive in early June. When trainees successfully complete this program they are sworn in as Peace Corps Volunteers.
Volunteers then move into their new host communities and begin work.
Periodically during the two- year service which follows, the Peace Corps office in Bishkek organizes language and technical training workshops for Volunteers, and when possible also offers local teachers who work with a Volunteer an opportunity to participate in various training events. Peace Corps Volunteers in Kyrgyzstan have ranged in age from 21 to 65, with most being in their 20's and 30's. Volunteers live and work in all six oblasts of the country, in large towns and small villages, in urban and in remote rural areas. They work in schools, institutes, universities, municipal organizations, non-governmental organizations and small enterprises. Volunteers continue to study the Kyrgyz and Russian languages after training.