Location Ban Nasan, Surat Thani, Thailand Community Description The community is located in Ban Nasan District, Surat Thani Province in Southern Thailand. The community is made up of 7 villages with a total population exceeding 5,000 people. The area is rural and the economy is largely agricultural. Specifically, rubber tree farming is the highest income-generating […]
Location Bila Krynytsia, Rivnenska Oblast, Ukraine Community Description The Village of Bila Krynytsia is located in northwestern Ukraine in Rivnenska Oblast, about 15 kilometers east of Rivne, the oblast center. The village is home to approximately 3,000 people, five small shops, a post office, an administration building, a school, a church, and a Cultural Building. […]
Location Uyanga Soum, Ovorkhangai Aimag, Mongolia Community Description Uyanga Soum is large Mongolian community of over 10,000 people and a student population of 1,300 pupils. The entire community lives in either a wooden or Mongolian ger (yurt). There is 24-hour electricity (with the occasional power loss) and cell phone service available throughout the residential area, […]
Location Sambande, Kaolack, Senegal Community Description Sambande is a small Seereer village of 500 people located 20 kilometers south of Kaolack and several kilometers from the nearest paved road. There is no electricity and the main source of income for the village is peanut and millet farming. In the center of the village is the […]
Location Guangaje Centro, Guangaje, Cotopaxi, Ecuador Community Description Guangaje Centro is the second largest community in the parish of Guangaje, in the central Ecuadorean province of Cotopaxi. Guangaje Centro lies in the center of the mountainous parish, at approximately 3,700 meters, and is populated entirely by indigenous, kichwa-speaking people. The community is an hour and […]
This project has been completed under the direction of Peace Corps Volunteer Olivia Kenna. To read about the beginning of the project, CLICK HERE. The project was to construct a new health hut to serve the villages of Foulamory Demba, Foulamory Yero, Saere Djiba and Saere Sawaly, in the Kolda region of Southern Senegal. Water […]
Location Nongyarangka, Ponetong, Chaiyaphum, North-East Region, Thailand Community Description Ponetong is located approx 215 miles northeast of Bangkok in the province of Chaiyaphum. It sits 7 km outside the city of Chaiyaphum in the area known as Issan on the Koret Plateau. Nongyarangka is comprised of two villages containing approx 1800 people. It is a […]
Location Bang Phai, Phichit, Thailand Community Description Bang Phai is a small village of 1,900 people, located in the southern part of Northern Thailand. It is about 5 hours north of Bangkok, Thailand. The community has running water. However, it is the local river water that is piped into the water stations and then throughout […]
This project has been successfully completed under the direction of Peace Corps Volunteer T.D. Nguyen. To see the history of the project CLICK HERE. The project was to renovate the restrooms of the Primary School of Village 1 Ban Sub Noi. T.D. reports: The four-stall restroom at the primary school of Village 1 was renovated […]
This project has been successfully completed under the direction of Peace Corps Volunteer Tony Uhl. To see the history of the project CLICK HERE. The project was to repair three non-working pumps in the village. Tony reports: The pumps have finally been finished, in time for the dry season. We are now planning the educational […]