Peace Corps Mexico

24/07/2026

¡Bienvenid@s PCR-21! Last week, our newest group of Response Volunteers (PCRVs) arrived in México for their orientation. 🇲🇽

After three weeks of training focused on language acquisition, cultural adaptation, safety and security, health and wellness, and programmatic preparation, the five new PCRVs will take their oath of service and head off to four different states around the country. For the next year, they’ll be collaborating with university counterparts on projects related to English, STEM, or competency-based curriculum and education. 📚

22/07/2026

Peace Corps Partnership Program (PCPP) Project Update: Cleaner Cooking & Youth-Led Food Production ✨

Thanks to everyone who generously supported one or more of the five PCPP grant projects we posted about in June. These next few weeks, we’ll be sharing updates about the (now fully funded!) initiatives and their progress. 🌱

Environment Volunteer Brian’s community is making great progress on its cleaner cooking and youth-led food production initiative. Brian and his high school students completed a raised bed vegetable garden, set up the school’s worm composting system, and finished the improved oven. 🪱

This project is just missing a few finishing touches — construction of a roof for the oven; completion of welding the garden hoop structure (paused due to the rainy season); and making a cover for the school worm composting bed, which the students immediately decorated like a tomb.🌧️

In addition to Brian’s progress with the students at the high school, he and his community built one of the six household improved ovens and have nearly completed the welding work on the other five barrels. 🪏

Step by step, the community is strengthening its environmental resilience and enhancing its sustainable food production. ♻️

We’ll keep you posted about Brian’s blossoming collaboration, and next week we’ll share some updates about the Environmental Community Center project in Rowan’s community. ➡️

17/07/2026

✨Bridging languages and cultures through poetry✨

As part of a collaboration with Yucatán university professors, Peace Corps Response Volunteer Jo Ann and Peace Corps Volunteer Alyson planned and facilitated a series of in‑person and online poetry workshops for English professors from five state universities. The workshops provided teachers a creative community of practice through which they could strengthen their English reading, writing, listening, and speaking skills.

Beginning in March, participants read and discussed poems in English, then wrote their own inspired pieces. The project culminated on June 19th with a bilingual poetry reading and celebration at the Mérida English Library, with five Mexican professors reading their poems in English and three Volunteers reading theirs in Spanish. The project closed with the publication of their collective work: Crossings / Travesías.

Many thanks to the talented teachers and Volunteers who shared their voices, their words, and their passion for language in this vibrant blend of bilingual creativity and community. 🌎📖📝

14/07/2026

With just a month of service remaining, PCVL Sarah is reflecting on nearly four incredible years with Peace Corps Mexico.

Sarah began her service as a TEFL Volunteer, spending two years teaching English to university students. She then became the first TEFL Peace Corps Volunteer Leader (PCVL) in Mexico since 2020 and later extended for a fourth year as a cross-sector PCVL, supporting staff and volunteers across all Peace Corps Mexico programs.

Thank you, Sarah, for your leadership, dedication, and unwavering commitment to the Peace Corps mission. Your impact will be felt long after your service ends, and you’ll be greatly missed! 💙

02/07/2026

Last week Peace Corps Mexico trained and inducted new members into its Peer Support Network (PSN). The PSN is Volunteer committee with the overarching goal of promoting Volunteer well-being and resilience by strengthening the in-country support system in collaboration with post staff. This formalized peer support model is comprised of Volunteers who are trained to provide private, empathic one-on-one peer support; to link Volunteers to pertinent resources and make referrals to appropriate Peace Corps staff; and to develop and implement outreach initiatives that foster a supportive Volunteer community throughout service.

During the 2-day PSN Training, staff and current PSN members guided the newly selected Volunteers through various training modules on the roles and responsibilities of PSN members. As part of the training, all of the PSN members also engaged in brainstorming ideas and planning for the upcoming year. Congrats to the newest members of the Peace Corps Mexico Peer Support Network!

30/06/2026

Peace Corps Response Volunteer Caroline Rodriguez worked with two of her counterparts from the
Reserva de la Biosfera Los Petenes to design and facilitate a solid waste management project with community leaders from a conservation area. In addition to learning about solid waste classification and regulations, recycling, and consumerism, the participants identified the primary solid waste problem in their community and brainstormed how to implement a community project to respond to the issue.

The final class culminated in a trip to a PET bottle recycling company to learn about a circular economy project where communities collect plastic bottles and the company collects and recycles the bottles, thereby decreasing virgin plastic production and providing an economic incentive to the local community. PET bottles are almost exclusively used for water and soft drinks and are one of the most practical recycling options.

The project was a community-led effort to respond to the lack of municipal trash collection service and identify a way to decrease the amount of plastic pollution affecting their community and their
beautiful ojo de agua (natural spring).

30/06/2026

hace nuevamente la invitación a en Querétaro para formar parte de un intercambio cultural. Comunícate con nosotros por este medio para más información.
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hace nuevamente la invitación a en Querétaro para formar parte de un intercambio cultural. Comunícate con nosotros por este medio para más información.

Please share with anyone who’d love to support a vital part of the mission by becoming a . See announcement below to learn more about how families can fulfill this important role!

23/06/2026

Friendships have no borders! 💌

Through “Pen Pal” letter-writing exchanges, students in Mexico and the U.S. foster connections built on cultural exchange and mutual language learning. A single letter can become a window into another part of the world: an opportunity to broaden perspectives, spark curiosity, and create lasting friendships.

🌎 This spring, environmental and educational volunteers alike fostered connections between their community’s schools and several schools in the U.S. with hundreds of letters back and forth about their passions, culture and dreams. Students of all ages and levels poured effort into their cards, and experienced the power of English as a second language: to get to know people from another side of the world.

Language isn’t about perfection. It is about human connection, one letter at a time.

18/06/2026

Welcome to a day in the life of Ruthie, an Environment Action & Awareness Volunteer!!

Spend the day with her as she collaborates with local counterparts on projects that support sustainability in her community, from helping develop an ecopark to supporting a local coffee nursery. Everyday day looks a little different, but partnerships and community collaboration are at the heart of it all.

12/06/2026

To celebrate World Environment Day on June 5th, Volunteer Sydney organized an Ecofair in her community alongside counterparts from the National Commission of Natural Protected Areas (CONANP) and local government. Students from across the town came together to participate in environmental workshops led by state and federal agencies, support local producers and agricultural collectives, and showcase the environmental projects they had been developing throughout the semester.

The event welcomed hundreds of attendees from across the community and state and featured the unveiling of CONANP’s new mascot, Bosco, who will help inspire appreciation for La Malinche National Park and environmental conservation for years to come. 🏔️🌲