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Peace Corps service can be a rewarding, enriching experience for married couples. Married couples make up about nine percent of Peace Corps Volunteers. In fact, some Peace Corps countries have couples-only programs. In all cases, both spouses must serve as Volunteers and live and work in the same community.
Just think of the stories you'll be able to tell your grandchildren someday.
One couple that served together recently is Heidi and Jim Wilton. They joined Peace Corps after five years of marriage, serving in Armenia. As Volunteers, the Wiltons have spent time together while undertaking a variety of different community projects, including an environmental awareness hike, coaching girls' soccer, and establishing a resource center for the community.
"We have spent more time with each other in the last many months than we ever had before that time," says Jim Wilton. Heidi explains that being married and serving in Peace Corps together provides a built-in support system. "When I have a bad day I can talk to him and he knows exactly what I went through because maybe the day before he went through it as well," she states.
Peace Corps is unable to place couples with dependent children and cannot guarantee placement in the same country of couples or friends who are not legally married. Applicants can begin the Peace Corps application process while engaged, but must be married before departing for their overseas assignment.
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Peace Corps recruiters appear at information sessions,
campus and community events, and career fairs. Pick your state and find
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