When I joined the Peace Corps, I had just finished my undergrad and didn’t know what was next. The Peace Corps was something different, interesting and challenging. 

I live in northern Ghana and served in a small village as a health, water and sanitation Volunteer from 2009 to 2011 before extending my service to work from the regional capital until early 2013. 

Serving in the Peace Corps alongside your partner or spouse can have advantages. 

Rise with the sun.

When Dorothy Wooldridge arrived in Ghana as a Peace Corps Volunteer at the age of 79, villagers had difficulty accepting that she was there to work. 

Normally when you think of San Jose, California and a small village in the Northern Region of Ghana, you might think that those two places would have very little in common. And you would be correct to assume so. 

For 20 years, Girls Leading Our World (GLOW) Camps have been part of Peace Corps Volunteers’ efforts to improve girls’ access to education and empowerment.

It goes by different names: tubig, nsuo, wata. In my childhood home, the H₂O flowing through our pipes was known best as “water.”

A call to action for girls everywhere by Dorcas Amanor from Volta Region, Ghana.