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The Peace Corps and Papua New Guinea: One Volunteer’s Experience. Brian Engel, Ph.D. Texas Tech Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, Class of 2016. Overview : The Peace Corps Papua New Guinea at a Glance My Experiences Health in PNG Questions. The Peace Corps :. Background Snapshot.
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The Peace Corps and Papua New Guinea: One Volunteer’s Experience Brian Engel, Ph.D. Texas Tech Health Sciences Center School of Medicine, Class of 2016
Overview:The Peace CorpsPapua New Guinea at a GlanceMy ExperiencesHealth in PNGQuestions
The Peace Corps: • Background • Snapshot
The Peace Corps: BackgroundMottoThe Toughest Job You’ll Ever Love.MissionThe Peace Corps' has 3 simple goals: 1. Helping the people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women.
The Peace Corps: BackgroundMissionThe Peace Corps' has 3 simple goals: 2. Helping promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the peoples served.
The Peace Corps: BackgroundMissionThe Peace Corps' has 3 simple goals: 3. Helping promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans.
1960, JFK speech 1961, Established 1961, 1st Volunteers (Ghana) The Peace Corps: BackgroundHistory
8,000 Currently serving 210,000 Have served The Peace Corps: Snapshot
Facts and Stats 62% Female, 38% Male 93% single, 7% married Avg. age: 28 years 7% over 50 years old The Peace Corps: Snapshot
Have served in 139 countries Currently serving in 76 countries (orange) The Peace Corps: Snapshot
Under the U.S. State Department Annual Budget: $373 Million The Peace Corps: Snapshot
Under the U.S. State Department Annual Budget: $373 Million The Peace Corps: Snapshot
Application Process (6-12 months) Offer Letter Staging Training (3 months) Site (2 years) Conferences Returning Home The Peace Corps: Experience in Brief
Host provisions Pay, health, travel Benefits(Loan deferment, partial cancellation, readjustment allowance, networking, educational opportunities) The Peace Corps: Experience in Brief
Papua New Guinea: Brief Overview Geography History Demographics Cultures
Papua New Guinea: Geography Geography History Demographics Cultures
Papua New Guinea: Geography Equator!
Shares New Guinea with Indonesia (West Papua/Irian Jaya) Tropical Many islands Mountainous Active Volcanoes Earthquakes Two seasons: Wet and Dry Papua New Guinea: Geography
Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tsunamis Papua New Guinea: Geography
Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tsunamis Papua New Guinea: Geography
0.5% of Land 4% of Lizards and Mammals (world’s smallest frog) 4% of Butterflies 7% of Birds 8% of Vertebrates 10% of Fish (coral reefs) Papua New Guinea: GeographyEcology: Fauna
Pre-History: artifacts dating back to about 60,000 B.C.E. Papua New Guinea: History
Modern History: Agrarian and Hunter-gatherer lifestyles 1526 Contact with Portugese 1545 Contact with Spainards (New Guinea) 1870s Contact with Russian Anthropologist 1900s – “First Contact” with Westerners Papua New Guinea: History
Modern History: Late 1800s – European colonization WWII – Japanese invasion Sept. 16, 1975 Independence Papua New Guinea: History
WWII Papua New Guinea: History
WWII Papua New Guinea: History
Papua New Guinea: Demographics Population: 7,000,000 For comparison: Switzerland, Bulgaria, Israel, Hong Kong, Nicaragua, Denmark) Arizona, Washington, Virginia Houston, DFW
Biggest Cities: Port Moresby (Capital): 250k (= Lubbock) Lae: 120k Mt. Hagen: 28k Arawa: 36k Papua New Guinea: Demographics
Sweet Potato Taro, Sago, Banana Pigs (special occasions) Fish Fruits Papua New Guinea: Food
Economy: mining, sustenance farming Languages: 800+ spoken! (over 10% of the world’s languages), TokPisin, Motu, English One of the most missionized countries in the world, now 96% Christian with remaining traditional beliefs Papua New Guinea: Miscellany
Training Port Moresby Papua New Guinea: My Experience
Training Goroka Village Stay Papua New Guinea: My Experience
Training Language Culture Teaching Papua New Guinea: My Experience
Lae Teaching Bugandi Secondary School Papua New Guinea: My Experience
Education System: National Exams School Fees Boarding Student jobs Facilities Papua New Guinea: My Experience