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Alternatives to the Peace Corps: A Directory of Third World & U.S. Volunteer Opportunities

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This book has honorable intentions. However, the publisher/author did not bother to update the information prior to republishing in 1999. I have already received notices from 15 contacts in the book that they are either no longer functioning, the address is no longer valid, or the email is no longer valid. You'd be just as well off looking at an older (and free) version in the library. Should the publisher/author wish to invest a little time and some rewriting, the book might once again be useful in the year 2000.

This book is an excellent reference guide to those wishing to do volunteer work,worldwide. It has great ideas for alternatives to the politically controlled Peace Corp. I recommend this book for anyone who truly wants to help needy people worldwide.

As someone who once thought that the Peace Corps was the only way to do development work overseas, I was thrilled to find the wide variety of alternatives to the peace corps in this book. I recommend it to anyone thinking about going abroad to do consciencious work.

Very helpful...liked the web page URLs and how the authors list expenses of each opportunity.

As one who served two years as a Peace Corps volunteer in Iran, 1970-72; I wonder why anyone would choose an alternative to the Peace Corps. Peace Corps language training is superlative. The Peace Corps has always manifested altruism. It took two years to learn both spoken colloquial and spoken literary Persian. I was just beginning to learn Classical Persian when the two years were came to an end. I also learned written Persian in the form of Naskh, Nastaliq, and Shekastay, (the last being highly cursive).