Peace Corps Dreams

Prompt: Peace Corps service presents major physical, emotional, and intellectual challenges. In the space below, please provide a few paragraphs explaining your reasons for wanting to serve as a Peace Corps Volunteer and how you plan to overcome the various challenges associated with Peace Corps service

I would love to serve as a Peace Corps volunteer to continue my work serving youth, and through my dedication and love for the kids, I would be able to persevere through the challenges put before me.

I have worked with children of many ages and backgrounds since I was 14, through summer camps and community service opportunities, and I love to see how children can grow and how they work.  I believe that every child holds so much potential, regardless of where they grow up and the resources they are provided. With that being said, it is necessary that all children have equal access to resources that will help them fulfill their entire potential. Being a Peace Corps volunteer, I feel that I can help to provide children with the support and help that they need to continue to grow and learn, and be productive members of their community.

I am working towards becoming a social worker, hopefully within the next four years, because not only would I love to serve children in other communities, but I would be honored to be able to work with and support children in and around the community I grew up in. Serving in the Peace Corps would definitely better help me do my job as a social worker in my own community, because I would be able to better acclimate to situations I’m not used to through my work as a volunteer in another country. With that being said, my courses in social work will definitely help me in my service as a volunteer, because I have acquired a good deal of skills and information that I can and will apply to my work now, as a volunteer and in the future as a social worker.

I am aware, however, that serving as a Peace Corps volunteer requires a lot of hard work and ability to work through difficulties. I believe that because I am so dedicated to working with children and being there for them, and through my love for the work that I’ll be doing and that the Peace Corps does, I will be able to adapt accordingly, and not get stuck. Along with that, I understand the importance of asking for help, and will not fail to do so from my fellow peers. I am very excited about all of the opportunities that the Peace Corps provides, and I hope that I’ll be able to help continue the amazing things that it does for people and places of our world.