Save the Date: Don't Miss the Celebration!
The Peace Corps turns 50 in 2011! You're an important part of our history, and we'd like you to help us celebrate!
We're planning several events around the world to recognize this landmark achievement. We want to make sure you don't miss out on this global celebration, but we need to know the best way to keep in touch.
Update your contact information and share the good news about the 50th Anniversary Celebration with at least three of your Peace Corps friends. You'll be automatically eligible to win a two-week volunteering trip to Central America for you and a friend, courtesy of Global Vision International (GVI).
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Stuart Conway Receives 2010 Shriver Award
The National Peace Corps Association is proud to announce that
Stuart Conway (Guatemala 84-86), co-founder of Trees, Water, & People (TWP), is the 2010
recipient of the Sargent Shriver Award for Distinguished Humanitarian
Service.
Conway will receive the Shriver Award at an NPCA celebration
in Washington, D.C. on June 25th. Over the last 12 years, TWP and its NGO partners in Central America and
Haiti have planted 3.5 million trees and are currently planting 600,000+
trees per year in their projects. In addition to the benefits that
these programs bring to the local and global environment, TWP's programs
also have a tremendous impact on the local people, empowering them to
take active roles in natural resource management, providing jobs, saving
money, and creating a healthier and more abundant environment for them
to live in.
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My Piece of the Peace Corps Video Contest Launches July 1
The Peace Corps has changed your life. We want you to tell us about it.
On July 1, NPCA launches its My Piece of the Peace Corps Contest video contest. Entrants will be invited to submit a YouTube video of no more than 2 minutes on how the Peace Corps, a Peace Corps Volunteer, or Returned Peace Corps Volunteer changed their life.
- Grand Prize: $2,500
- Second Prize: $1,000
- Third Prize: $500
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Africa Rural Connect Essay Contest
We are excited to announce a new Essay Contest for the summer--we want to hear your insights on how to approach the larger issue of food
security in rural Africa. The winning essay will be published in World Policy Journal. Submit your entry now until July 31st. Please share the Africa Rural Connect site with those who you think don't know about it but would be interested--we are always looking to highlight people with creative ideas.
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You're Invited: NPCA Annual General Meeting & Quarterly Board Meeting
On June 25-26, NPCA will be holding its quarterly board meeting as well as the Annual General Meeting and Group Leaders Forum in Washington, D.C.
On Friday evening there will be a reception for NPCA members. Highlights will include presentation of the Sargent Shriver Award for Distinguished Humanitarian Service, followed by a screening of Frontrunner, a film by Virginia Williams (Morocco 89-91) about the first woman to run for president of Afghanistan.
The Annual General Meeting (AGM) and Group Leaders' Forum will take place on Saturday. Members can vote in the AGM but others are welcome to observe. To RSVP for any of these events, please email Emily Bello at emily@peacecorpsconnect.org. |
A Sierra Leone Postscript
After a sixteen year absence, a new group of Sierra Leone Peace Corps invitees is now in-country, beginning three months of training before they begin their assignments as education volunteers.
While their individual impact is yet to be determined, the recent send-off celebration at Peace Corps Headquarters provided a glimpse of what is possible.
One of the speakers at the celebration was the Deputy Chief of Mission for the Embassy of Sierra Leone. When he accepted the invitation to address the gathering, Ibrahim Conteh had a request. Could Peace Corps locate Roberta Rabinoff - the volunteer who was his Eenglish teacher - and invite her to attend?
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Doubling the Peace Corps Part of Service World Agenda
"We envision a world in which volunteer service by people of all nations is a strategy in meeting pressing challenges in education, health, the environment, agriculture and more."
So begins a bold new document that outlines a vision and strategy for expanding global service opportunities with a goal of mobilizing 100,000 volunteers to serve abroad each year. Included in this strategy is a call to double the number of Peace Corps volunteers.
More than 150 organizations are endorsing this Service World initiative, which will be formally launched over the next two weeks. "NPCA is pleased to be one of the founders of the Service World Coalition," says NPCA President Kevin Quigley. "Its vision of service is inspired by the Peace Corps, and when that vision is implemented it will expand opportunities for Americans of all ages to advance the timeless Peace Corps goal of building a more peaceful and prosperous world."
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Programs Promote World Cup Spirit Year-Round
For decades, people have viewed the World Cup as a means to jointly
celebrate the game of soccer and the international community. However,
organizations such as Ball for All, Project Play Africa, Partners of the Americas, as well as many others, combine sports and service in Africa through their partnership with Peace Corps Volunteers yearlong.
Ball for All provides micro grants to
Peace Corps volunteers to start girls' sports teams in collaboration
with local schools. In the Toubacouta region of Senegal, a single
girls' team started by a Peace Corps Volunteer has multiplied into a
league of over 20 teams. Currently, Ball for All is planning to
replicate this success by funding four girls' soccer teams in the
Kedougou region of Senegal.
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SHARE YOUR EXPERIENCE
With the Peace Corps' Speakers Match program, elementary and secondary school teachers can enhance their students' learning through classroom presentations by returned Peace Corps Volunteers.
Interested classroom teachers and returned Peace Corps Volunteers can enroll in the Peace Corps' Speakers Match program by clicking here.
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June 22: Action Day for Education for All
Make plans to support universal basic education on June 22nd by taking part in a national advocacy day in support of the Education for All Act. Join NPCA's Education for All Advocates group on Connected Peace Corps, or contact advocacy@peacecorpsconnect.org for more details.
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Take Peace Corps to the Beach
Our online store offers
a wide selection of Peace Corps and NPCA logo merchandise--from
t-shirts and coffee mugs, to pins and license place frames. Wearing logo merchandise is a great way to
spark conversations about Peace Corps!
Your purchase
supports the efforts of the
National Peace Corps Association.
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RPCV MENTORING
Sometimes the hardest thing about Peace Corps is adjusting to life back home. It can feel like being a fish out of water.
That's why the NPCA, in conjunction with the Peace Corps, created this unique program to help returning Volunteers link up with RPCV mentors.
For more information or to apply for the program, click here.
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