About Third Goal
Third Goal is an independent and free community blog for Peace Corps volunteers. Anyone may create an account and begin sharing their Peace Corps experience with others.
Purpose
When President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps in 1961, he created three simple goals for the organization. The third goal was (and still is) to “Help promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of all Americans.”
Third Goal was created out of a desire to provide Peace Corps volunteers a free, easy, and independent way to share their stories with the rest of the world, not just Americans.
By offering a consolidated venue for all Peace Corps volunteers, the public receives a concentrated resource of first-person experiences from worlds very different than their own.
If you are a Peace Corps volunteer and would like to share your stories with others, you are invited to create an account. Third Goal will offer you a free place to log your experiences for others to read in real time. More so, your real-life stories will help shape Americans’ understanding of other peoples.
Features
| For Writers | For Readers |
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free: there’s no cost to post translate: machine-translated into 11 languages community: blog with fellow Peace Corps volunteers your content: your posts appear in your own section with your own URL (http://thirdgoal.com/author/yourname/) shared content: your stories appear alongside post from other volunteers in your country, region, and continent anonymous: blog using your real name, or securely using an alias photos: use Flickr to add photos to a post archive: your stories are kept online for you to revisit anytime third goal: you are meeting the Peace Corps’ third goal of sharing your experience with others |
free: there’s no cost to read (or comment) translated: read the same post in 11 languages focused: many Peace Corps blogs within one website content by author: if you know a volunteer, click on their alias to view just their content content by country: read posts from all volunteers in a particular country or continent photos: 1,500 photos are displayed on this site via Flickr comment: send your praises to any author through comments (also emails them) |
Developers
Third Goal is developed, maintained, and funded by Jason Pearce (Guyana 2002).
Jason’s been to more than 45 countries, can make noises like a cricket and CB radio (not at the same time), and thinks highly of the 23 volunteers he served with in Guyana.
Scott Stadum (Guyana 2003-2005) volunteers his time organizing Peace Corps photos on Flickr, maintaining Third Goal’s wiki, and providing moral support.
Though Scott and Jason are both RPCV from Guyana, they’ve never met. They do have several friends in common, but part their hair differently.