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The Peace Corps and Papua New Guinea: One Volunteer’s Experience

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

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  1. 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

  2. Overview:The Peace CorpsPapua New Guinea at a GlanceMy ExperiencesHealth in PNGQuestions

  3. The Peace Corps: • Background • Snapshot

  4. 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.

  5. 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.

  6. The Peace Corps: BackgroundMissionThe Peace Corps' has 3 simple goals: 3. Helping promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans.

  7. 1960, JFK speech 1961, Established 1961, 1st Volunteers (Ghana) The Peace Corps: BackgroundHistory

  8. 8,000 Currently serving 210,000 Have served The Peace Corps: Snapshot

  9. Facts and Stats 62% Female, 38% Male 93% single, 7% married Avg. age: 28 years 7% over 50 years old The Peace Corps: Snapshot

  10. Have served in 139 countries Currently serving in 76 countries (orange) The Peace Corps: Snapshot

  11. The Peace Corps: SnapshotWhere we serve

  12. The Peace Corps: SnapshotHow we serve

  13. Under the U.S. State Department Annual Budget: $373 Million The Peace Corps: Snapshot

  14. Under the U.S. State Department Annual Budget: $373 Million The Peace Corps: Snapshot

  15. Application Process (6-12 months) Offer Letter Staging Training (3 months) Site (2 years) Conferences Returning Home The Peace Corps: Experience in Brief

  16. Host provisions Pay, health, travel Benefits(Loan deferment, partial cancellation, readjustment allowance, networking, educational opportunities) The Peace Corps: Experience in Brief

  17. Papua New Guinea: Brief Overview Geography History Demographics Cultures

  18. Papua New Guinea: Geography Geography History Demographics Cultures

  19. Papua New Guinea: Geography Equator!

  20. Papua New Guinea: Geography

  21. 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

  22. Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tsunamis Papua New Guinea: Geography

  23. Earthquakes, Volcanoes and Tsunamis Papua New Guinea: Geography

  24. 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

  25. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dx2CUMtZ-0

  26. Pre-History: artifacts dating back to about 60,000 B.C.E. Papua New Guinea: History

  27. 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

  28. Modern History: Late 1800s – European colonization WWII – Japanese invasion Sept. 16, 1975 Independence Papua New Guinea: History

  29. WWII Papua New Guinea: History

  30. WWII Papua New Guinea: History

  31. Papua New Guinea: Demographics Population: 7,000,000 For comparison: Switzerland, Bulgaria, Israel, Hong Kong, Nicaragua, Denmark) Arizona, Washington, Virginia Houston, DFW

  32. Biggest Cities: Port Moresby (Capital): 250k (= Lubbock) Lae: 120k Mt. Hagen: 28k Arawa: 36k Papua New Guinea: Demographics

  33. Papua New Guinea: DemographicsDiversity

  34. Papua New Guinea: DemographicsDiversity

  35. Papua New Guinea: DemographicsDiversity

  36. Papua New Guinea: DemographicsDiversity

  37. Sweet Potato Taro, Sago, Banana Pigs (special occasions) Fish Fruits Papua New Guinea: Food

  38. 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

  39. Training Port Moresby Papua New Guinea: My Experience

  40. Training Goroka Village Stay Papua New Guinea: My Experience

  41. Training Language Culture Teaching Papua New Guinea: My Experience

  42. Lae Teaching Bugandi Secondary School Papua New Guinea: My Experience

  43. Education System: National Exams School Fees Boarding Student jobs Facilities Papua New Guinea: My Experience

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