Peace Corps to Return to Liberia
The Peace Corps website last week, on the Peace Corps Response page, quietly posted a historical job description. It describes the first vacancy for a PC Volunteer in 19 years. Peace Corps Response is the new name for the agency's short-term volunteer program, formerly known as the Crisis Corps. At the request of the Liberian government, the first volunteers back in Liberia will work in education. The job description looks like this.
Partner: Possibly local and international NGOs, government ministries, and other organizations
Projected Start Date: September, 2008
Duration:
Description: Peace Corps Response will play a pivotal role in Peace Corps' re-entry into Liberia. Peace Corps Response intends to send approximately 18 Volunteers into Liberia in September 2008 and we encourage early application submissions as we anticipate these assignments being highly competitive.
Qualifications: Peace Corps Response Volunteers will be working within the Education sector and assignments are expected to be in some of the following fields: teacher training, curriculum development, classroom teaching, education administration, education policy assistance.
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President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, visiting Portland, Ore., meets with Friends of Liberia president, Stephanie Vickers, a Portland resident. President Sirleaf spoke to the local World Affairs Council Forum in May 2007. FOL was honored to be included in a small group of non-profits that met with her to discuss their work with and for Liberia. Stephanie told her of FOL’s hope for Peace Corps’ return to Liberia, which President Sirleaf strongly supports, and FOL’s longtime efforts in teacher training. President Sirleaf acknowledged FOL’s work over two decades. |
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