Botswana Country Fund

Description

Contributions to the Botswana Country Fund support sustainable, community-driven Peace Corps Partnership Program projects in rural Botswana communities that are co-facilitated by Peace Corps Volunteers and their Counterparts. Many great projects are funded with support of the Peace Corps Partnership Program and the Country Fund.

These projects are centered around three sectors, which are:

Health: Volunteers are placed in health facilities, civil society / community led organizations, schools, health facilities to build the transferable skills of their communities in order to meet the health and wellbeing challenges and to build capacity of young adults in preparation for adulthood.

Specific interventions are aimed at health service delivery such as supply chain management and youth friendly health services, nutritional wellbeing, psychosocial support, promotion of treatment adherence and retention in care and promotion of youth friendly services. Volunteers work with local health care workers to mobilize communities and create demand for health service uptake provided at government and non-government facilities.

Education: Volunteers are placed in schools to work specifically with upper primary school learners. Interventions in this sector includes, increasing student literacy skills within school-based programs and working with students in camps and clubs for life skills development. Volunteers partner with local communities through teachers in schools to organize libraries and maintain them. Strengthening local partner teaching capacity in classrooms through co-planning, co-facilitation and co-teaching.

Community Economic Development: Volunteers in this sector are placed in community-based organizations, vocational schools and with social workers at government level. The sector focuses on Livelihoods Skills such as entrepreneurship behaviors, business skills and digital literacy. Volunteers also work with counterparts in small-scale economic activities doing personal money management, basic business learning and income generating learning.

Donating to Peace Corps Botswana volunteer and local partner projects will help Botswana discover and develop its change makers!