Peace Corps Community Economic Development Sector

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Promote local economic opportunities

Become a Community Economic Development Volunteer and empower communities to get more out of their business investments and take control of their economic future.

Community Economic Development Volunteers work together with local and global partners, entrepreneurs, and business owners to encourage economic opportunities in communities.

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After arriving by cargo ship, this 6,000-liter water tank was lifted and carried into the village by locals in Vanuatu.

Sushil talks to workshop participants in about goat management practices in Nepal.

Community Economic Development Volunteer Nate and his counterpart Eric use local materials to construct a rural entrepreneurship training center in the West Region of Cameroon.

Volunteer Chelsea digs holes for a toilet for a primary school on Pele island.

Laurel is a Health Volunteer in Tanzania who supports people living with HIV and educates young people about women’s health issues.

Volunteer Doreen secured a grant to help community members construct a fishpond. The fish will help generate income and provide additional nutrition for this Tanzanian community.

A three-day demonstration workshop focused on building latrines in Quiché, Guatemala.

A Volunteer and his counterpart install institutional cookstoves at boarding schools in order to reduce deforestation in Uganda.

Volunteer Sunni at the site of a new maternity hospital that is being built from grants that she secured during her service in Zambia.

Traditional woven baskets in Senegal.

This pilot fishpond project will enable families to harvest locally grown tilapia fish in this Samoan village.

A Community Economic Development Volunteer collaborates with a community member in the Dominican Republic.

A Community Economic Development Volunteer talks to a local farmer in the Dominican Republic.

A beekeeper displays honey from his hive in the Dominican Republic.

A beekeeping operation in the Dominican Republic.

A Volunteer works on an income-generating project to support women and internally displaced people in Georgia.

A Georgian counterpart involved in a Community Economic Development project in Georgia.

Volunteer Kamran (front) with his counterpart, Gela (rear), harvesting honey. The proceeds from this social enterprise help sustain a community center and its programs.

A Volunteer and community member collaborate in a Community Economic Development project in Ghana.

Women travel to attend a women's conference in Togo.

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Community Economic Development

Promote local economic opportunities

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