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Volunteerism Action Guide: Multiplying the Power of Service (CD062) (CD063) (CD064) (CD065)

With the V2 Volunteerism initiative, the Peace Corps seeks to help Volunteers inspire and support host country volunteerism by integrating elements of service learning into community development work. This booklet will show you how to motivate and support communities to make service a common experience.

Government, Civics, & Community Engagement
Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene in Schools Toolkit (M0124)
This resource was developed to support Peace Corps Volunteers who are working with schools to improve water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) facilities and programming. It is intended to provide guidance, resources, and ideas to support comprehensive WASH programming that is focused on behavior change and sustainability.
Health & Wellness
Wells Construction: Hand Dug and Hand Drilled (M0009)
This manual is intended for use by development workers involved in the construction of wells to supply water to a local population for personal consumption.
Environment
Working with CCBI: Volunteer Workbook (M0073)

This workbook is a complement to the training you receive as part of your pre-service training (PST) and in-service training (IST). Although we usually think of CCBI in the context of the classroom, this workbook can help you incorporate CCBI in your activities in any sector.

Intercultural Competence, Diversity, & Inclusion (ICD&I)
Working with Supervisors & Counterparts (T0121)
This manual combines best practices for involvement of supervisors and counterparts in programming, training, and Volunteer activities from the three regions (Africa; Europe, Mediterranean, and Asia; Inter-America and the Pacific) of the Peace Corps. The intent of the manual is to offer ideas for participatory development to supplement the already fine work being done with partners at posts. This manual will help associate Peace Corps directors (APCDs), program managers, directors of programming and training (DPTs), and training staff identify, learn from, train, and support their counterparts and supervisors.
Intercultural Competence, Diversity, & Inclusion (ICD&I)
Working With Youth: Approaches for Volunteers (M0067)
This manual is intended to complement knowledge, intuition, and good intentions in your encounters with youth. It can support your efforts by helping you make more informed and thoughtful decisions as you engage young people in discussions and activities. Through advice and information from Volunteers, staff, and experts, this manual will provide you with creative and innovative ideas for activities that are founded on development principles and gathered from experience throughout the world.
Children & Youth
YMCA Earth Service Corps: Club Handbook (M0058)
This handbook was created to help YMCA Earth Service Corps club leaders and advisors with ideas and resources for structuring your club and service-learning projects. The activities and suggestions you’ll find in this handbook come from the experiences of many different clubs.
Environment
Youth Camps Manual: GLOW and Other Leadership Camps (M0100)
Camp GLOW has become one of the most common and recognizable Peace Corps activities throughout the world. Such camps explore many different themes, with leadership camps being the most popular. Thousands of young girls have bettered themselves and their communities through these camps. As with anything good, the model has continued to grow, adapt, and change depending on the place, the context, and the young people involved. Part 5 of this manual includes a complete Camp GLOW model.
Children & Youth
Youth Clubs Toolkit (M0129)

Youth clubs are a powerful, yet often underutilized, way to reach young people. Research has shown that clubs complement formal schooling and that they play an important role in knowledge acquisition and skill building.

Children & Youth
Youth Development and the Environment (M0057)
This booklet introduces ideas, concepts, and examples that combine youth development and environment activities. It is written for interested youth, Peace Corps Volunteers, their counter- parts, Peace Corps staff, teachers, local or national government officials, parents, and community members. Much of the booklet's content was contributed by young people, Volunteers and Peace Corps staff and youth development workers.
Children & Youth
Youth Development Case Study Honduras (R0074)
The following case study documents the experiences of one Youth Development Volunteer who, although he had no experience working with youth before he started his project, developed a love and concern for young people which later led him to pursue this field in his graduate studies.
Children & Youth
Youth Development through English Practice Activities (M0109)

This Idea Book offers strategies you can use to create and facilitate your own English practice youth group, as well as practical activities that you can use in an extracurricular setting. The book also provides advice and real-world examples contributed by committed Volunteers.

Children & Youth
Youth Livelihoods: Employability (M0093) (M0102)
There are three manuals in the Youth Livelihoods series: Employability, Financial Literacy, and Entrepreneurship. All three of these courses are designed to be delivered by Peace Corps Volunteers and their counterparts worldwide who are helping young people develop knowledge, skills, and aptitudes for improving their financial literacy, their employability, and their economic independence.
Children & Youth
Youth Livelihoods: Entrepreneurship (M0116)

The Youth Entrepreneurship guide is the third resource in the Peace Corps' Youth Livelihoods series and is designed for Peace Corps Volunteers and their counterparts worldwide who are helping young people develop knowledge, skills, and aptitudes for improving their economic independence.

Children & Youth
Youth Livelihoods: Financial Literacy (M0092) (M0101)
There are three manuals in the Youth Livelihoods series: Employability, Financial Literacy, and Entrepreneurship. All three of these courses are designed to be delivered by Peace Corps Volunteers and their counterparts worldwide who are helping young people develop knowledge, skills, and aptitudes for improving their employability, their financial literacy, and their economic independence.
Children & Youth
Youth Livelihoods Mentoring Workbook (M0128)

The Peace Corps Youth Livelihoods Mentoring Workbook is designed for a Peace Corps Volunteer to use when mentoring a youth (or small group of youth) in order to build their livelihood skills.

Children & Youth
Youth Mentoring Workbook (M0127)

This Mentoring Workbook is designed to be used by Peace Corps Volunteers to foster and maintain a mentoring relationship with youth in their community. Volunteers have been informally mentoring local youth for decades; this resource is intended to help Volunteers structure and guide those relationships toward evidence-based outcomes.

Children & Youth

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