Contact Details:
Head Office
address
Peace Corps
Website:
www.peacecorps.gov
78 Kairaba Avenue
(next to the US Embassy)
Fajara
P.O. Box 582
Banjul, The Gambia
West Africa
Telephone number:
4464564,
4398338
4377388, 4398357
4392120 (country director)
4377052
(Stodge House, Kanifing, MDI Road)
4398366
(Youth Hostel)
Associate Peace Corps Director:
Rod Stubina (July 2009)
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Background Information:
 The Peace
Corps (an independent US Federal Agency) takes applications from US citizens who are over the age of 18
years for voluntary field work in The Gambia and other countries
around the world. Today there are around 122 volunteers working in
rural village
communities in The Gambia.
The organisation promotes awareness and provides instruction in the
fields of agriculture, education, engineering, environment, community
development work and health care including HIV/Aids
prevention. People can serve for up to 60 months under the "five-year
rule".
History:
In 1967 the Ministry of
External Affairs signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Peace
Corps Volunteers. Later that year PCTG volunteers started services beginning with
teaching and mechanical instruction. So far there have been over 1,200
volunteers who have assisted many Gambian communities over the years.
Useful Peace Corps Resources:
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