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Stories From Benin

Every Peace Corps Volunteer has a story to tell. Read stories from Volunteers about what it's like to live and work in Benin.

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Peace Corps Volunteer in Togo engages principal on school farm
5 Peace Corps Volunteers share how service has changed them
By The Peace Corps
November 25, 2024
Serving As A Volunteer
A woman speaks into a microphone
Benin’s girl-led podcast receives virtual support from the Peace Corps
By Peace Corps
April 11, 2024
Serving As A Volunteer
A woman in a brightly colored shirt talks to a woman holding greenery
The 3 ways Virtual Service Participants support women abroad
By Peace Corps
January 2, 2024
Spreading out a mosquito bed net
6 Peace Corps projects to fight malaria around the world
By Peace Corps
April 20, 2022
Becoming A Volunteer
Volunteers in Benin in 2001
‘You have to go’: The first post-9/11 Peace Corps Volunteers reflect on the decision to serve after attacks
By Peace Corps
September 9, 2021
After Service
Jazz Perry with hosts in Cambodia
6 returned Peace Corps Volunteers explain who inspired them to serve
By Peace Corps
September 9, 2021
After Service
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How to support communities abroad, without serving in the Peace Corps
By Peace Corps
November 26, 2019
Serving As A Volunteer
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Serving as a Peace Corps Hijabi: Faith and Coexistence
By Ghizlane Moustaid
July 12, 2019
Serving As A Volunteer
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Life is patience: a Peace Corps counterpart's journey to America
By Conner Swan
July 10, 2019
Serving As A Volunteer
a Beninese woman smiles while marching in a parade with a Peace Corps banner
A tomato today can be a dollar tomorrow
By Noah Nieting
April 24, 2019
Serving As A Volunteer
Corey Quinlan Taylor and host community friends
Peace Corps lessons in unlikely places
By Corey Quinlan Taylor
August 13, 2018
After Service
Students work on computers in the newly renovated library.
5 library projects bringing books and resources to communities around the world
By Peace Corps
April 10, 2018
Peace Corps Perspectives
Peace Corps Volunteers help Feed the Future
Peace Corps Volunteers help Feed the Future
By Peace Corps
September 19, 2017
Peace Corps Perspectives
Nursery School, Northern Benin
Stomping Out Malaria in Pre-Schools
By Peace Corps Benin
August 7, 2017
Serving As A Volunteer
Beninese Seamstress Apprentices
Kolective: Empowering Young Seamstresses in Northern Benin
By Peace Corps Benin
August 2, 2017
Serving As A Volunteer
How a Peace Corps Volunteer helped create a moringa mogul
"I succeed if everyone else does too"
By Mark Huelsenbeck
March 10, 2017
After Service
Nathan Chaput, Nepal
9 things we've learned from learning a new language
By Peace Corps
February 23, 2017
Serving As A Volunteer
Nyassa Kollie, Malawi
What do you wish Americans knew about your country of service?
By Peace Corps
January 19, 2017
Serving As A Volunteer
You have the opportunity to be fully immersed in another culture
Why you should join the Peace Corps straight out of college
By Christina Kay
July 1, 2016
Becoming A Volunteer
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11 times Peace Corps Volunteers had a more scenic commute than you
By Peace Corps
April 16, 2016
Serving As A Volunteer