Peace Corps Health Sector

Build a healthier world

Become a Health Volunteer and work with community partners to contribute to building a healthier world.

Health Volunteers work alongside their communities on locally prioritized projects that focus on nutrition, basic hygiene, life skills for youth, sexual and reproductive health, women and girls, and HIV prevention and education.

Opportunities in Health

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Ghana
Community Health Facilitator
Albania
Health and Well-Being Educator
Peru
Water Sanitation and Hygiene Education Facilitator
Guatemala
Maternal and Child Health Promoter
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Cambodian girls develop leadership skills while learning about important health and social issues at Camp GLOW, organized by Volunteer Danielle.

Volunteer Alexa working with women at a local health center.

Volunteer Wes and his counterpart meet with the parents of infants and toddlers to educate them about early childhood nutrition. They also weigh the children and track their growth.

Children learn about proper sanitation at a handwashing station in Nepal.

A Volunteer assists at a health center in Liberia.

Staff at a health center in Liberia.

Local community health workers and Volunteers build handwashing stations in Rwandan communities to help combat preventable illnesses.

Volunteer Megan promotes proper nutrition, water sanitation, and hygiene among women and children in Rwanda.

Volunteer Hannah with participants in a women’s savings group in Rwanda.

Volunteer Megan engages children in activities promoting good nutrition, sanitation, and disease prevention in Rwanda.

Volunteer Larisa works at a health center in Rwanda, where she helps with weekly nutrition lessons and health checkups for babies.

Volunteer Bree and her counterpart lead a training for community health workers in Rwanda.

Volunteer Megan talks to a mother about the health of her baby in Rwanda.

Volunteer Bree and her counterpart train community health workers in Rwanda.

Taking a break during a community health training in Rwanda.

A Volunteer collaborates with a community health worker in Cameroon.

A Volunteer in discussion with a community health worker in Cameroon.

A workshop about the immune system and HIV/AIDS for health care providers in Vanuatu.

Every week at this local dispensary in Vanuatu, mothers bring their infants and babies to be weighed and immunized, and to make sure they are developing normally.