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IBM & PCR Partnership in Ghana
We’re proud to collaborate with IBM Corporate Service Corps to provide highly skilled professionals opportunities to serve in short-term, high-impact assignments. In Ghana, we supported Let Girls Learn earlier this year – now on to the Philippines and Mexico!
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What Is This Thing? Part 3
Happy Monday! Can YOU guess what this thing is??
What is This Thing?
Happy Monday friends!
Returned Global Health Service Partnership Volunteer, Kelly Lippi, shares how she inspired Ugandan nursing students to be proud of their work and to feel like they chose “the best profession in the world.”
The #GHSP is seeking nurse educators to continue this great work. Learn more and submit an application at http://www.peacecorps.gov/globalhealth/
Seed Global Health
"The work and the input that Peace Corps Response Volunteers have brought to Jamaica cannot be quantified realistically in dollars and cents but the impact that they've had ... is remarkable." -Dane Lewis, J-Flag Executive Director #pridemonth
“Without the community members buying into this project, we’re not going to see a decrease in maternal mortality – so they mean everything to this project.”
Peace Corps Response Volunteer, Kelly Finwall, shares how she worked with the Saving Mothers Giving Life (SMGL) program in communities throughout Zambia to encourage women to deliver their children at the local clinic. Kelly also worked to train community members on to best support a mother in labor in order to keep her stable and calm.
#SMGL CDC CDC Global
"We are all so much more alike then we are different and that is what we learn in Peace Corps." - Dr. Barbara Tull,
Peace Corps Response Volunteer, Dr. Barbara Tull, used her Special Education background in a six month assignment with the Stepping Stone Learning and Therapy Center in Makati City (Manila), Philippines. During her assignment, Dr. Tull worked with moderately handicapped students. In addition, she worked to help improve the quality of the Center's programming and developed an instruction manual for teachers to know how and what to do in their Special Education classrooms. #Education #SpecialEducation
How do you say Happy New Year in Patwa, Samoan or Mandarin? How about Arabic or Siswati? From all of us at Peace Corps, in every part of the world, we wish everyone a happy and safe New Year! #NYE
#TBT Another oldie but goodie! #VintagePeaceCorpsPSA
#TBT This vintage Peace Corps PSA is awesome.
In 1971, President Nixon folded Peace Corps and several other service programs into a new federal volunteer agency called ACTION. This PSA was produced during that time. Ten years later, President Carter would make Peace Corps an independent federal agency and it was no longer a part of ACTION.
How do you get to your job? #PeaceCorpsResponse #Guyana