March 10, 2005: Headlines: COS - Bangladesh: Expansion: The Bangladesh Journal: Peace Corps opens office in Bangladesh
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March 10, 2005: Headlines: COS - Bangladesh: Expansion: The Bangladesh Journal: Peace Corps opens office in Bangladesh
Peace Corps opens office in Bangladesh
Peace Corps opens office in Bangladesh
US Peace Corps office opens in Bangladesh
Posted on: March 10, 2005
Dhaka, March 10: The United States Peace Corps, an agency of the American federal government devoted to world peace and friendship, opened its office in Dhaka on Thursday.
US Ambassador Harry K Thomas inaugurated the new facilities of the Peace Corps at Gulshan.
At present 91 Peace Corps volunteers are serving in 54 districts of Bangladesh, 55 per cent of whom are female. These volunteers, with their average age being 25, make a 27-month commitment to live and work. It also includes three months of pre-service training.
Since its formation in 1960, more than 178,000 Peace Corps Volunteers have been invited by 138 host countries to work on issues ranging from AIDS education, information technology, and environmental preservation.
The Corps started working in this country in the 1960s but withdrew in 1970 due to liberation war. It reestablished its activities in 1998 after an agreement between the Government of Bangladesh and the Government of the United States through the Ministry of Finance''s Economic Relations Division.
Its activities were interrupted in 2001 for security concerns and reopened in 2002.
The Peace Corps Volunteers are working in different projects, including English teaching, community development, environment-awareness education, health research, reproductive health education, HIV/AIDS, sanitation and capacity building in the information communication technology.
© The Bangladesh Journal
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