Helping America Confront COVID-19: Volunteer and Job Opportunities
Ideas and resources for the Peace Corps community By James Rupert Photo: RPCV Mia Richardson donating blood. Courtesy RPCVs in Service at Home As evacuated Peace Corps Volunteers seek new jobs — and as all Returned Peace Corps Volunteers ask what we can...
Peace Corps Community Achievements — May 2020
Community News — Achievements of RPCVs Author: Peter Deekle (Iran 1968-1970) May 2020 ARMENIA Elizabeth Morgan (2019-2020) continues to chair the Peace Corps volunteer team in Armenia following her evacuation due to the coronavirus pandemic. She works remotely with an Armenian non-profit...
BREAKING NEWS: House Legislation Proposes Rescinding Peace Corps COVID-19 Funds. Here’s action you can take.
Legislation would jeopardize funds that provided for health and safety of more than 7,300 evacuated Peace Corps Volunteers amid global pandemic. Let’s keep that from happening. While there has been significant legislation introduced to support Peace Corps and evacuated volunteers,...
The Unfinished Business of Peace Corps Volunteers Evacuated from Around the World
On March 15 more than 7,300 Peace Corps Volunteers were told they needed to leave the communities they had called home—an unprecedented global evacuation. They were uprooted from the lives and work they had come to know, sometimes without the...
Week in Review: Peace Corps News in Unprecedented Times
Unemployment benefits, personal stories of evacuation, and Volunteers serving on the front lines to tackle the COVID-19 pandemic By NPCA Staff Here are the top stories of the week on the Peace Corps community across the United States — and around the world. And here’s a...
New House Legislation for Peace Corps Evacuees: Health Insurance, Helping at Home, Redeploying Overseas
New Peace Corps legislation continues to emerge to help evacuated Volunteers, this time in the House of Representatives. On April 30, Representatives Dean Phillips (D-MN) and Don Young (R-AK) announced the “Utilizing and Supporting Evacuated Peace Corps Volunteers Act,” which addresses several...
Words and Deeds
The weather: We talk about it but don’t do a blessed thing about it, right? Until we did, without intending to — into the Anthropocene era we rode, brave new world of climate instability. But that climate changing is accompanied by...
Labor Department Issues Unemployment Guidelines: Evacuated Peace Corps Volunteers Are Eligible
Today the U.S. Labor Department issued special unemployment guidelines which clarifies that evacuated Peace Corps Volunteers are eligible for this assistance. Given the unique circumstances of the pandemic and the projection that evacuees would be returning to a seriously contracting economy, National...
Islands in Peril
Climate change and Pacific nations heroically trying to save themselves By Mike Tidwell Dying trees, sandbagged shore. Photo for Humans of Kiribati by Raimo Kataotao At the United Nations building in New York, the national flag of every country...
On the Front Lines
FIJI & BEYOND: A MacArthur Fellow takes stock of climate change loss and damage — and immediate solutions By Stacy Jupiter Under threat: Low-lying islands and coral cays, like barrier islands Wallis and Futuna, are extremely vulnerable to impacts of sea...