Colombia

Stories from Colombia

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

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Cocoa partnerships: How collaboration helps the Arhuacos of Colombia conserve the forest and improve economic opportunity

Sybelle VanAntwerp

VIDEO: Highlighting home in Colombia

Third Goal

How 4 Volunteers share their hometown culture with their host country community

Peace Corps

One of the goals of Peace Corps service is to promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the peoples served.

Initiating the Community Savings Group after a hard days work on the crops.

Business consulting for Colombia’s displaced citizen population

Yadezi Abreu

Being a community economic development Volunteer is an abstract position with a range of services varying on a case-to-case basis for the American men and women serving in the Peace Corps.

Stars: A Letter to Myself Six Months Ago

Cutter Uhlhorn

Jaider

Sage Harris

My classrooms are filled with women

Paul LaMancusa Jr.

Pass through any coastal pueblo in Colombia at the brink of dawn and you will see woman sweeping porches, raking rubbish and generally straightening up the house before another scorching day.