Service Learning and Community Development Projects
Student participants will have opportunities to work with residents at the grass root level in urban or rural communities. These will be placements in local education and training programs that are administered by a local district’s community based leadership-training center. The centers provide technical assistance to women, parents and neighborhood groups. Community service organizations or local community action groups sponsor other projects.

Some placements may be in areas where Peace Corps volunteers are already assigned. Graduate students will have opportunities to develop experience on policy analysis, field investigations, evaluation and information management through their placements in organizations, which administer, train, and evaluate local and national development projects.

Women’s development centers, Secretariat of Youth, children’s hospitals, and English language labs are examples of our community service partner organizations. Students have been involved in childcare, AIDS and pregnancy prevention programs, child nutrition education, teaching English and many other volunteer activities.