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What is Peace Corps?

What Do Volunteers Do?

Where Do Volunteers Go?
Caribbean
Central America and Mexico
South America
Eastern Europe and Central Asia
North Africa and the Middle East
Africa
Asia
Pacific Islands

What's It Like to Volunteer?

How Do I Become a Volunteer?

Who Volunteers?

What are the Benefits?

What About Safety?

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About the Peace Corps

Where Do Volunteers Go?

Current

Fiji Samoa
Kiribati Tonga
Micronesia and Palau Vanuatu

Past

Cook Islands Papua New Guinea
Marshall Islands Solomon Islands
Niue Tuvalu
Explore the Pacific Islands

Past

Cook Islands

Status: Presently Inactive
Program dates: 1982-1986; 1988-1995
Volunteers Served: 90

 

Papua New Guinea

Status: Presently Inactive
Program dates: 1981-2001
Volunteers Served: 701

 

Marshall Islands

Status: Presently Inactive
Program dates: 1966-1996
Volunteers Served: 149

 

Solomon Islands

Status: Presently Inactive
Program dates: 1971-2000
Volunteers Served: 744

 

Niue

Status: Presently Inactive
Program dates: 1994-2002
Volunteers Served: 19

 

Tuvalu

Status: Presently Inactive
Program dates: 1974-1997
Volunteers Served: 43

 
Thehe types of programs and specific Volunteer activities vary considerably across this vast and diverse region. The majority of Volunteers work in health, the environment, and education, with large numbers also engaged in small business development and agriculture. Volunteer activities in most countries also target women and youth-at-risk.