Service Learning
Lessons designed to convey useful information about how to select, plan, prepare, carry out, reflect on, and celebrate a service learning project include service-related stories from Peace Corps Volunteers.
- How Can Service-Learning Make a Change?
- The first time we started speaking about how to promote service-learning, all of us on the staff were a bit skeptical. We were not sure even knew how to translate it into Bulgarian with less then ten words...
- ICAN Changes a Nation One Person at a Time
- ICAN, short for I Can Change a Nation is a newly formed youth movement in Soufriere, St. Lucia.
- In the Aftermath of Hurricane Georges
- Hurricane Georges, which hit the Dominican Republic September 22, 1998, was a defining experience in my life. This was my third hurricane, but never had I personally seen, heard, or felt winds of 150 mph.
- A Lifetime of Service
- Hear an interview, see photos and videos, and read stories about this remarkable Peace Corps Volunteer’s service in Lesotho, Malawi, and Botswana.
- Reduce, Re-use, Recycle
- Romania has turned me into a pack rat. Not that I didn't collect things in the past.
- Running
- In the mornings I often ran to the summit of Raise the Flag Mountain.
- Seeds of Change
- "If I could fix any problem in the world, it would be making life better for people with disabilities in China." -Nie Jing, a second-year English Education major at Guiyang University, China
- The Third Question
- There are certain conversations and key phrases in Romanian that you get especially good at repeating when you become a Peace Corps Volunteer.
- A Typical Day
- Every day, whether I want to or not, I wake up when the rooster crows at dawn. As I climb out of the mosquito net that hangs over my bamboo bed, I hear swish-swish sounds outside my mud hut—the women have already begun sweeping leaves from the courtyard.
- Where There's Smoke
- One day last fall, my Nepalese friend Kumar invited me to have lunch at his family's home. Like most homes in the surrounding village, his is built from packed clay and cow dung.
- Working for the Common Good
- The damage was extensive. You could actually see how the rivers had flooded their banks destroying whole towns. People came to us and said they had lost their town, they had lost their way of life, they had lost their way of living.