Peace Corps Volunteers return to Fiji after 2 years

Peace Corps Volunteers return to Fiji after 2 years

By Vijay Narayan
Thursday 27/10/2022
[Image: Peace Corp]

The first Peace Corps Volunteers in over two years have arrived in the country, relaunching a program that has been on hold since the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted it in March 2020.

In today’s Welcome Back to Service event at the Tanoa Plaza, Peace Corps Fiji, its partners, and other agencies, groups and individuals will celebrate the re-entry of Peace Corps Volunteers into Fiji, the strong partnerships built and fostered over the past 2 years that paved the way for this successful return of volunteers, the resilience and creativity of Peace Corps Staff who consistently gave all of themselves professionally during the challenging pandemic, Peace Corps Fiji’s successful COVID Response and Recovery initiatives, such as its support of vaccine hesitancy training with local nurses and the series community economic development workshops that it offered.

Peace Corps Fiji Country Director, Kury Cobham says this is an exciting moment for Peace Corps Fiji as an organisation.

By the end of 2023, the agency plans to have over 50 two-year serving volunteers living and partnering professionally with host communities throughout Viti Levu.

Peace Corps Volunteers work under programmatic frameworks built collaboratively by Peace Corps, government, and NGO partners.

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