Are there multiple posts per year per country in Africa?
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Yes, could you be a little more specific in the question? Are you asking about refusing an assignment? It is supposed to be done once, but the rules probably have changed. Yes, I refused my first one and chose the second, but I’d traveled to places an was able to choose from those by eliminating countries that Peace Corps was not in, so, for example, I might have skipped Africa and gone to Fiji instead.
Thanks for your response… I am wondering about whether there are multiple assigments to multiple countries at different times of the year because I was nominated but did not get to the point of receiving an assigment because I postponed my application. Now I have re-opened it and am wondering if since I was originally nominated to Africa whether I will be again…
Talk to the recruiter. Africa is a common assignment. They hire allot of PCVs and it’s easy to send pcvs there and keep up the numbers. There is allot of pressure to keep countries and get the numbers up because Bush said he wanted to double the number of pcvs like he doubled the number of CIA in his famous speech(see plame and joe wilson, rpcv).
I passed on Africa because they did not have Tanzania yet. They offered Kenya, but if you go to Tanzania they call it a big zoo. Tanzania is more natural and I would have gone right away. I ended up with central america because I had travelled there too and it was the next offer. I went right away. This was done over the phone and I didn’t have time to pick and choose. I would have chosen Fiji, but I had no travel history there. If you have no travel history you might be considered less competitive. If you don’t want the first assignment, explain why and they should offer a second. It’s called right of first refusal or something. It used to be policy. No, I wouldn’t say something like I don’t want to live in a mud hut. If it makes sense, they’ll work with you on the assignment.
The Kenya evacuation was handled wrong and caused problems with Uganda, who just opened up the entire country to PC. PCVs were evacuated based on lacation, which is a problem for the entire country and borders and tribes. So, hopefully, PC has learned how to do an evacuation.
In Thailand, the CIA was torturing in country were a military government took over by coup. Fiji has the same military coup and the democratic government has been effectively destroyed, natives. In the Philippines a PCV was murdered after relocating from a site that had land and water purchase issues. No toxicolgy was done and the body was immediately cremated and the murderer turned himself in the next day. Facts are coming out that it looks more like she was poisoned before she was murdered.
PeaceCorps2 has allot of the assignments posted by PCVs you can check there or ask in the forum. I don’t post there because they monitor the comments and have deleted comments about the land issue problems, that we currently have with Bolivia. An RPCV was assassinted in Iraq because she going to bulldoze a house, a land issue. The comment was deleted before she could be reminded of her training. In Bolivia a pcv disappeared and it may have been a land issue. Congress has done three investigations.
There are allot of reasons for refusing assignments. If you have a good reason, explain that and they should work with you. So, you may want to just check with peaceorps2 and live journal for assignments.
Good luck!! It’s normal to postpone PC several times. Most people aren’t for PC.
February 10th, 2008 at 11:35 pm
Yes, could you be a little more specific in the question? Are you asking about refusing an assignment? It is supposed to be done once, but the rules probably have changed. Yes, I refused my first one and chose the second, but I’d traveled to places an was able to choose from those by eliminating countries that Peace Corps was not in, so, for example, I might have skipped Africa and gone to Fiji instead.
February 12th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Thanks for your response… I am wondering about whether there are multiple assigments to multiple countries at different times of the year because I was nominated but did not get to the point of receiving an assigment because I postponed my application. Now I have re-opened it and am wondering if since I was originally nominated to Africa whether I will be again…
February 12th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Talk to the recruiter. Africa is a common assignment. They hire allot of PCVs and it’s easy to send pcvs there and keep up the numbers. There is allot of pressure to keep countries and get the numbers up because Bush said he wanted to double the number of pcvs like he doubled the number of CIA in his famous speech(see plame and joe wilson, rpcv).
I passed on Africa because they did not have Tanzania yet. They offered Kenya, but if you go to Tanzania they call it a big zoo. Tanzania is more natural and I would have gone right away. I ended up with central america because I had travelled there too and it was the next offer. I went right away. This was done over the phone and I didn’t have time to pick and choose. I would have chosen Fiji, but I had no travel history there. If you have no travel history you might be considered less competitive. If you don’t want the first assignment, explain why and they should offer a second. It’s called right of first refusal or something. It used to be policy. No, I wouldn’t say something like I don’t want to live in a mud hut. If it makes sense, they’ll work with you on the assignment.
The Kenya evacuation was handled wrong and caused problems with Uganda, who just opened up the entire country to PC. PCVs were evacuated based on lacation, which is a problem for the entire country and borders and tribes. So, hopefully, PC has learned how to do an evacuation.
In Thailand, the CIA was torturing in country were a military government took over by coup. Fiji has the same military coup and the democratic government has been effectively destroyed, natives. In the Philippines a PCV was murdered after relocating from a site that had land and water purchase issues. No toxicolgy was done and the body was immediately cremated and the murderer turned himself in the next day. Facts are coming out that it looks more like she was poisoned before she was murdered.
PeaceCorps2 has allot of the assignments posted by PCVs you can check there or ask in the forum. I don’t post there because they monitor the comments and have deleted comments about the land issue problems, that we currently have with Bolivia. An RPCV was assassinted in Iraq because she going to bulldoze a house, a land issue. The comment was deleted before she could be reminded of her training. In Bolivia a pcv disappeared and it may have been a land issue. Congress has done three investigations.
There are allot of reasons for refusing assignments. If you have a good reason, explain that and they should work with you. So, you may want to just check with peaceorps2 and live journal for assignments.
Good luck!! It’s normal to postpone PC several times. Most people aren’t for PC.