Youth development; Training; Pre-service Training (PST)
A Peace Corps Volunteer serves as a TEFL teacher in Ardestan, Iran. Located at the Bourgerd TEFL Training site he teaches English to children equivalent to fifth grade level. Joseph is shown drilling some of his students.
A Volunteer is assigned to the Ministry of Social Services working on child welfare in Machakos, a town of 20,000 residents. Here she is shown in overalls, embracing one of the women who lives in the village.
A Volunteer teaches the students shorthand, typing, office practice and commerce. As principal of the school, she helped set up the curriculum and purchase equipment and supplies with government funds and donations from private organizations.
A Volunteer teaches the students shorthand, typing, office practice and commerce. As principal of the school, she helped set up the curriculum and purchase equipment and supplies with government funds and donations from private organizations.
Newly arrived Peace Corps Volunteers are given extensive Farsi language instruction. These volunteers at the Mashed training site in Iran will be serving as instructors in the TEFL program and vocational education teachers.
I took this picture in August 2010 during my pre-service training in Cambodia. This photo shows a group of my fellow Volunteers practicing yoga during some free time in one Volunteer's host family's wooden home.
This was taken in the May of 2010 in a Ukrainian village. This lake meant a lot to me. After the intense daily routine of PST, it was very relaxing to walk past this lake on the way back home everyday.
Taken during in the first week of May 2011 during the beginning of my Peace Corps training. This picture was taken using a timer, from the rooftop of my host-family's home in Guatemala. I'm taking in my new surroundings, contemplating the...