Joining the Peace Corp?

They appreciate it if you spell it properly - Peace Corps, with a silent "s" on the end, just like the Marine Corps or the Salvation Army Corps.

You didn't do as bad as a lady I went to high school with who wrote to me as "Ted Pack, Piece Core Volunteer" while I was in Sarawak.

It is exhausting and exhilarating. If you want details, see the link below to my personal site.

You get in by applying. They take one applicant in four. The application process can take up to a year.

The Peace Corps doesn't "make up for" graduate school. If you want to work 70 hours a week instead of 60, you can get a Master's while you are a volunteer, sort of. Read more:

http://www.peacecorps.gov/index.cfm?shell=learn.wh...

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The official web site is graphics-heavy but comprehensive:

http://www.peacecorps.gov/

If you are interested, you can read about my time as a PCV in Sarawak, on the island of Borneo, many years ago. I search Y!A for the phrase "Peace Corps" every week. I have a page devoted to the questions that come up the most frequently, too:

http://www.tedpack.org/pchead.html

My page "Peace Corps Links" has a link to the Returned PCV web ring, which has 40+ other RPCV sites.

The Peace Corps continues to be an magnificent enterprise with it rather is heart interior the incredible place. i've got had pals that have incredibly felt they made a connection and am result on the communities they have served. it is likewise rather significant nonetheless, to think of relating to the Western result you're bringing the community-- being an American and being an interloper who can convey issues to them gadgets up an exciting and often times unehalthy dynamic that individuals might desire to no longer be waiting for. Is it extra valuable for a community to have new supplies yet have that selection be extra in via a god-like outsider, different than coaching them to self-sustain and make thier very own advancements? incredibly an unanswered question to discover. verify out the Jesuit Volunteer corps--it rather is particularly much less self-serving in my view, much less relating to the participant's adventure and extra relating to the community and assisting them out. Granted, you convey an identical dynamic of bringing interior the help yet with JVC, the individuals stay between the community member, earn an identical funds and alter right into a factor of the community. It kinfolk, so much less glamourous yet an magnificent thank you to make a close-by difference. And maximum everybody i be attentive to who has carried out JVC easily enjoyed it.

This will tell you EVERYTHING you need to know: http://www.peacecorps.gov/