December 13, 2005: Headlines: COS - Azerbaijan: Baku Today: Peace Corps Plans to Stay in Azerbaijan for a Long Term
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December 13, 2005: Headlines: COS - Azerbaijan: Baku Today: Peace Corps Plans to Stay in Azerbaijan for a Long Term
Peace Corps Plans to Stay in Azerbaijan for a Long Term
The Peace Corps attaches a large importance to the work in Azerbaijan, the organization’s spokesman stressed, noting that the proposals on the volunteer numbers in Azerbaijan are submitted to the Azerbaijan’s government for consideration and after discussions a joint decision is taken on the number of volunteers in each specific group.
Peace Corps Plans to Stay in Azerbaijan for a Long Term
Peace Corps Plans to Stay in Azerbaijan for a Long Term
Trend 13/12/2005 09:27
The Peace Corps American charitable institution will function on the long-term basis in Azerbaijan, the Peace Corps country director for Azerbaijan Zoltan Sigety said in his interview with Trend.
According to him, the Peace Corps operates in Azerbaijan since 2003. The organization’s entire activities are based on the agreements with the Educational and Economic Development Ministries of Azerbaijan. The work is carried out within two basic programs: teaching English and business consulting. “For today there are still 79 Peace Corps volunteers, 66 of which work at secondary schools as English teachers, 13 persons are business consultants,” Zigety said.
He reminded, on December 12 2005 after the 27 –month work in the country the first group of the Peace Corps volunteers, the English teachers, will leave Azerbaijan. They will be replaced in summer 2006 by the new team of volunteers.
As Sigety noted, the Peace Corps is the institution, funded by the US government and there are 8,000 volunteers in it now. The total number of states where the Peace Corps implemented or is implementing its programs is 140.
The Peace Corps attaches a large importance to the work in Azerbaijan, the organization’s spokesman stressed, noting that the proposals on the volunteer numbers in Azerbaijan are submitted to the Azerbaijan’s government for consideration and after discussions a joint decision is taken on the number of volunteers in each specific group.
The process of involvement in the Peace Corps looks like this: The citizens in the USA apply for participation in the Peace Corps programs as volunteers, followed by the selection process to last up to 9 months. During this period the volunteers get the comprehensive information about the country of their arrival. After the selection process the volunteers take the 3-month language training, learning the Azerbaijani language and the culture.
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