I want to go into the peace corps any advice? Is it worth the money to work in a master's program with the pea

Question

If anyone has any advice on where to serve, how to apply etc that would be great! Also I am a recent college graduate should I take advantage of the master's program that the Peace Corps had? Is it worth the out of state tuition? It looked like a lot of work of getting accepted and studying at the actual university with out actually any benefit for serving i in the peace. Should I just do a master's program independent of the Peace Corps? Anyone have any personal experience with this?

Answer 1

Can't help you on the Master's program, but here is a web site that can help you learn more about the skills and experience desired by long-term placement organizations such as PeaceCorps, VSO, UNV, etc, so you can improve your chances of being accepted (also links to all these long-term volunteering programs).

http://www.coyotecommunications.com/volu...

Answer 2

I have some advice about the Peace Corps, based on my experience and my daughter's, not about the Master's program.

In talking with other returned PCVs, the people who have the best experiences get specific assignments (as opposed to "community development") and go to countries with reasonably honest governments. If you get stuck in West Africa working for a government whose main purpose is to pile money into the President-for-Life's Swiss bank account, you are going to have a bad experience.

http://www.tedpack.org/pchead.html

has stories and pictures.