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About Albania and Montenegro

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At the invitation of governments, Peace Corps Volunteers around the world work alongside community members on locally prioritized projects that build relationships, promote knowledge exchange, and make a lasting and measurable impact.

The countries of Albania and Montenegro are unique countries with a shared boundary, and their Peace Corps programs share a common administrative staff.

Albania and Montenegro are traditional countries with deep, complex, and sometimes contradictory cultures, filled with incredibly warm and welcoming people.

In this region, mountain ranges give over to the coast or to hidden lakes and jaw-dropping gorges. With this natural beauty as a backdrop, there are shells of long-ago closed factories and mills, an infrastructure that still faces significant challenges, and unfinished buildings that were abandoned due to lack of funding.

Families and communities work hard to provide the best for their children. Often the evening nightly strolls bring life into the streets of even the quietest towns.

If you choose to serve in Albania or Montenegro, you will get to experience this and much more as you work with your community towards the goals of world peace and friendship. To this day, the three original goals of the Peace Corps remain the same:

  • To help the people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained people;
  • To help promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the peoples served;
  • To help promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans.

The history of the Peace Corps in Albania

In Albania, through a formal intergovernmental agreement signed in 1992, Peace Corps Volunteers started working with organizations, municipalities, and schools to help meet the diverse needs of their communities and to strengthen peace and friendship between the United States and Albania.

Volunteers in Albania work with their communities on locally prioritized projects of Youth Health and Well-being, English Language Learning, and Organizational Development. For more information on Volunteer’s work in Albania, please refer to Projects in the Albania and Montenegro section.

The history of the Peace Corps in Montenegro

In Montenegro, after a formal intergovernmental agreement signed in 2019, Peace Corps Volunteers started working with communities and schools in country in 2022 to help meet the diverse needs of their communities and to strengthen peace and friendship between the United States and Montenegro.

Volunteers in Montenegro work alongside teachers and community counterparts on English Language Learning. For more information on Volunteer’s work in Montenegro, please refer to Projects in Albania and Montenegro section.

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Partners in Albania and Montenegro

Government and international organizations

  • Albanian Ministry of Education and Sports
  • Montenegrin Ministry of Education, Science and Innovation
  • ASCAP (Quality Ensuring Agency for Pre-University Education - Albania)
  • DPAP (General Directorate of Pre-University Education - Albania)
  • Regional Education Directorate for North, Albania
  • Health for All Project - Albania
  • Association of Paraplegics of Montenegro
  • Albanian institute of Public Health
  • Forum MNE
  • English Learning Teachers Association of Montenegro
  • Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Montenegro
  • Ministry of Interior of Montenegro
  • United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF) in Albania and in Montenegro
  • United Nations Population Fund
  • United States Embassies in Albania and in Montenegro and American Corners
  • University of Shkodër, English Department
  • University of Tirana, English Department
  • Municipalities across Albania and Montenegro

Non-governmental organizations (NGOs)

  • Agro-Puka
  • Albanian Local Capacity Development Foundation
  • American Councils
  • ARKA Center—Shkodër
  • CSDC Durrës
  • Darien Book Aid
  • English Language Teachers Association
  • English Speaking Union
  • Foundation Food Bank Albania
  • Friends of Albania
  • Junior Achievement of Albania
  • Mary Ward Loreto
  • Children are the future (CAF Albania)
  • Albanian Consumer Center (ACC)
  • New Bridges
  • Qendra Marredhenie
  • Regional Development Agency—Korçë
  • Sidi Education
  • Terre des Hommes
  • Touristic Dibra
  • Water Charity
  • World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts
  • World Connect
  • World Vision
  • Youth Center—Vlorë
  • Youth in Free Enterprise.

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