Why more funding to the Peace Corps?
• If you are a returned volunteer (RPCV), share specific examples of people you helped in the Peace Corps or skills you acquired. The more your can connect your present leadership and volunteer activities to service in Peace Corps, the more compelling this paragraph will be. • If you are not an RPCV or former Peace Corps staff, your letters are also of great importance! You help demonstrate the broad support for the Peace Corps among U.S. citizens. • Make 3 points about why a bigger, better, and bolder Peace Corps is important. • Because of the success we acheived in the Fiscal Year 2010 budget, be sure to acknowledge and thank policymakers for this progress. Example A (Returned Peace Corps Volunteer): “I write to you as a returned Peace Corps volunteer who served as a teacher in a village in Ecuador from 1988 to 1990. The friendships I made and my continued efforts to advance literacy in other parts of Latin America through an NGO I created in 1995 are meaningful contributions to glob
