Peace CorpsPeace CorpsVolunteers and Books in Many

Languages

Books in Many Languages: Reaching Out to Youth in a Multilingual World

IRRT, International Sustainable Libraries Division (ISLD), ALA 2010 Conference

June 28, 2010

Peace Corps–Who we arePeace Corps–Who we are

Peace Corps established March 1, 1961 Total number of Volunteers and trainees to

date: Nearly 200,000

Total number of countries served: 139

Peace Corps–Who we arePeace Corps–Who we are

Mission – to promote world peace and friendship

Three Goals:1.Helping the people of interested countries in

meeting their need for trained men and women. 2.Helping promote a better understanding of

Americans on the part of the peoples served. 3.Helping promote a better understanding of other

peoples on the part of Americans.

Peace Corps–Who we arePeace Corps–Who we are

VolunteersCurrent number of Volunteers and

Trainees: 7,671 60% female, 40% male; 93% single, 7% married; 16% minorities; average age 28; 7% over age 50; 89% have at least an undergraduate degree

Where are Peace Corps Where are Peace Corps Volunteers?Volunteers?

Peace Corps–What we doPeace Corps–What we do

Volunteers by Work Area or ProjectEducation: 35% Health & HIV/AIDS: 22% Business Development: 15% Environment: 14% Agriculture: 5% Youth Development: 5% Other: 4%

Peace Corps – ICE and IRCsPeace Corps – ICE and IRCs

ICE publicationsOther publications

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Information Resource Centers (IRCs)

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Suriname

Cape VerdeDominican Republic

Peace Corps – ICE and IRCsPeace Corps – ICE and IRCs

Support of Volunteer projects, communities

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Peace Corps Volunteers and Peace Corps Volunteers and LanguagesLanguages

Volunteers in the field face a wide variety of challenges with regard to languages, literacy levels, reading cultures, education systems, library cultures, book publishing situations…

Peace Corps Volunteers and Peace Corps Volunteers and LanguagesLanguagesPeace Corps Volunteers work in over 75

countries, using over 250 languages Afrikaans Hiligaynon MoroccanAklanon Hungarian NepaliAlbanian Ibaloi PolishArabic (colloquial Jordanian) Ifugao PorohanonArabic, Eastern Ilocano (Ilokano) RomanianArabic, Western Ilonggo RussianArmenian Ivatan SlovakAsi Kalenjin SorsoganonAzerbaijani Kankanay SurigaononBangla Kazakh TagalongBete Kinaray-a TajikBikol Kryghyz Tamasignt (Berber)Bikol-Legaspi Latvian Tashlheet (Berber)Bontoc Lithuanian ThaiBulgarian Loocnon TurkmenCebuano (Sebuano) Luyha UkrainianChinese (Mandarin) Macedonian UzbekEstonian Mandarin ViracnonFrench Mongolian Waray (Samar-Leyte)

Peace Corps Volunteers and Peace Corps Volunteers and LanguagesLanguagesPeace Corps Volunteers work in over 75

countries, using over 250 languages Afrikaans Fula Nyanja SonraiArabic, Western Fufulde Oshidonga (Ndonga) SoninkeArabic (colloquial Jordanian) Grebo Oshikwanyam (Kwayama) SpanishAteso Hassynia Otjiherero (Herero) SusuBambara (Mainke) Hausa Peul Swahili (KiSwahili)Bemba Kaonde Portuguese SwatiChew Tonga Kiswahili Pulaar TonganChichewa Luganda Ralinke TsongChitonga Lumasaba (Lugiisu) Rukwangali Tswana (Sitswanna)Chitumbuka Lunda Runyankore TumbukaCreole Lusoga Ruyuro-Rutooro VendaDamara/Nama (Khoe-Khoe Language) Malagasy Sakalava WolofDhopadhola Malinke Sepedi Zarma (Songhai, Djerma)Dioula Mandinka Serer ZuluDogon Mobo Sesotho Zula (Xhosa)English Moore Setswana YaoFrench Ndebele Siswati Kenya Sign Lang

Peace Corps Volunteers and Peace Corps Volunteers and LanguagesLanguagesPeace Corps Volunteers work in over 75

countries, using over 250 languages

Aucan Kosraean SpanishBislama Palauan Sranan TongoChuukese Pidgin (Tokpigin) TonganDutch Pingilapese TurkmenFijian Pohnepeian UlithianGreek Quechua YapeseGuarani Samoan TetunHaitian Creole Saramaccan MwoakileseHindi Sesotho MortlockeseKiribati

Peace Corps Volunteers and Peace Corps Volunteers and Libraries Libraries

Peace Corps Volunteers typically have a work assignment as well as secondary projects

There is no formal “library” work assignment but library and book-related projects are some of the most common secondary projects

SPA-Small Project Assistance and PCPP-Peace Corps Partnership Program are two possible sources of funding for projects

Volunteers and Libraries: SPA-Volunteers and Libraries: SPA-Small Project AssistanceSmall Project Assistance

Volunteer Library Projects within SPA, FY2009-2010

Ghana Duadaso No.1 Computer and Library Access Project

Malawi Chipelera Resource and Library Center

Malawi Mhalaunda Community Day Secondary School Library Project

Tanzania Nyololo Primary School Library

Uganda Batambogwe Library Project

Uganda St. J oseph's Model Primary School-Rubindi Library and Resource Center

Cambodia Library repair/development at the Prey Veng RTTC

J ordan Hashmieh Library Extension Project

Macedonia S.M.A.R.T. (Start Making a Reader Today) English Library & Children's Hour

Morocco Traveling Library

Ukraine Kramatorsk Central Library English Language Resource Center

Ukraine Portable Multimedia Resource Library

Dominican Republic Rancho Manuel Library and Community Center

Volunteers and Libraries: SPA-Volunteers and Libraries: SPA-Small Project AssistanceSmall Project AssistanceCountry Title

Dominican Republic Disaster Relief, Community Library and Computer Facility Project- Centro Educativa

Dominican Republic Community Library

Dominican Republic Reading and Educational Materials for Community Library

Dominican Republic Community Library and Computer Lab

Dominican Republic Community Library in Primary School

Albania Rubik Children's LibraryAzerbaijan English Language Multimedia Listening Library

Cambodia Library Improvement Project

Turkmenistan School English Library and Resource Center

Ukraine Petrakh Memorial Library Digital Training & Learning CenterJ amaica Moore Town School Library Computer Lab Renovation

Nicaragua Community Library

Paraguay Biblioteca Comunitaria de Altos - Aranduraity (Senior Community Library)

Volunteers and Libraries: PCPP Volunteers and Libraries: PCPP Peace Corps Partnership ProgramPeace Corps Partnership Program

Volunteers and Libraries: PCPP Volunteers and Libraries: PCPP Peace Corps Partnership ProgramPeace Corps Partnership Program

Volunteers and Libraries: PCPP Volunteers and Libraries: PCPP Peace Corps Partnership ProgramPeace Corps Partnership Program

PROJECT NAME COUNTRY

Community Resource Center Burkina Faso

School Library Burkina Faso

Library Materials Burkina Faso

Resource Books for Local English Teachers

Cameroon

Promoting Literacy in the Classroom Cape Verde

Community Library Project Dominican Republic

English Resource Center Kazakhstan

English Resource Center Kazakhstan

English Language Textbooks Kazakhstan

Moving Forward with New Books Kazakhstan

Volunteers and Libraries: PCPP Volunteers and Libraries: PCPP Peace Corps Partnership ProgramPeace Corps Partnership Program

PROJECT NAME (continued) COUNTRY

English Resource Center Kyrgyz Republic

Literacy Center Mali

Community Library Resources Paraguay

Community Library Peru

School Library Improvement Philippines

Library Refurbishment Philippines

School Library Renovation Vanuatu

Regional Resource Center Zambia

Volunteers and Libraries: PCPP Volunteers and Libraries: PCPP Peace Corps Partnership ProgramPeace Corps Partnership Program

Volunteers and Libraries: PCPP Volunteers and Libraries: PCPP Peace Corps Partnership ProgramPeace Corps Partnership Program

Volunteers in Many LanguagesVolunteers in Many Languages

A Tri-Lingual Picture DictionaryA Tri-Lingual Picture Dictionary

Uzbekistan

Iran Afghanistan

Caspian Sea

A Tri-Lingual Picture DictionaryA Tri-Lingual Picture Dictionary

Vital StatisticsPopulation

Average: 5.5 million

Program Dates: 1993-present

Number of Volunteers: 117

Total Volunteers to Date: 698

Languages Spoken: Turkmen, Russian

A Tri-Lingual Picture DictionaryA Tri-Lingual Picture Dictionary

The Karakum desert, one of the largest sand deserts in the world, occupies 80 percent of the country.

The Turkmen ethnic group makes up 85 percent of the population. Other major groups are Russians, Uzbeks, and Kazakhs.

The official language is Turkmen; Russian is widely spoken.

A Tri-Lingual Picture DictionaryA Tri-Lingual Picture Dictionary

A Tri-Lingual Picture DictionaryA Tri-Lingual Picture Dictionary

A Tri-Lingual Picture DictionaryA Tri-Lingual Picture Dictionary

A Tri-Lingual Picture DictionaryA Tri-Lingual Picture Dictionary

A Tri-Lingual Picture DictionaryA Tri-Lingual Picture Dictionary

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Vital StatisticsPopulation

Average 2 million

Program Dates 1967-present

Number of Volunteers 81

Total Volunteers to Date 2,112

Languages Spoken Sesotho, English

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Teboho – Herd Boy of Tsatsane Teboho – Herd Boy of Tsatsane ValleyValley

Teboho – Herd Boy of Tsatsane Teboho – Herd Boy of Tsatsane ValleyValley

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Teboho – Herd Boy of Tsatsane Valley

(Teboho – Molisana oa Tsatsane)

AUTHORS:Teboho Molelekoa

Thabang MohlabulaMadeline Uraneck

‘Mabokang Mohlabula

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Micronesia: Ulithian-English Micronesia: Ulithian-English DictionaryDictionary

Micronesia: Ulithian-English Micronesia: Ulithian-English DictionaryDictionary

Micronesia: Ulithian-English Micronesia: Ulithian-English DictionaryDictionary

Vital StatisticsPopulation Average 160,000 Program Dates 1966-present Number of Volunteers 73 Total Volunteers to Date 4,203 Languages Spoken: Chuukese,

Halls Island, Kapinga-marangi, Kosraean, Namonuito, Nukuoro, Palauan, Pingilapese, Pohnepeian, Sapwuafik, Satawalese, Ulithian, Woleain, Yapese

Micronesia: Ulithian-English Micronesia: Ulithian-English DictionaryDictionary

Ulithian spoken on islands of Falalop, Mogmog, Federai, and Asor on the Ulithi Atoll, and island of Fais to the west

3,000 living Ulithian speakers

(May 12, 2010, Pacific Scoop Press, New Zealand)

Micronesia: Ulithian-English Micronesia: Ulithian-English DictionaryDictionary

Micronesia: Ulithian-English Micronesia: Ulithian-English DictionaryDictionary

Micronesia: Ulithian-English Micronesia: Ulithian-English DictionaryDictionary

Micronesia: Ulithian-English Micronesia: Ulithian-English DictionaryDictionary

Micronesia: Ulithian-English Micronesia: Ulithian-English DictionaryDictionary

Micronesia: Ulithian-English Micronesia: Ulithian-English DictionaryDictionary

Third Goal – opportunities…Third Goal – opportunities…

1. Helping the people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women.

2. Helping promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the peoples served.

3. Helping promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans.

Thank YouThank You

Marcy Carrelmcarrel@peacecorps.gov202-692-2645

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