{On Friday, December 6, 2013, the United States Ambassador to Rwanda Donald W. Koran swore in 34 new Peace Corps Volunteers. This is the 10th group of Peace Corps Volunteers to serve in Rwanda since Peace Corps returned to Rwanda in 2008. }
The ceremony took place at 10:00 a.m. in Kacyiru at the residence of Ambassador Koran.
The Peace Corps Volunteers sworn in today are Education Volunteers. They will be bringing their energy, skills and knowledge to Rwandans living in communities located throughout Rwanda.
The focus of Peace Corps’ Education project with this group of volunteers is teaching English.
Following the ceremony, the 34 new Volunteers depart for secondary schools, where they will be assigned to teach in classrooms as well as perform teacher training and mentoring and designing materials for school classrooms and libraries to improve teaching and learning.
Peace Corps was invited to return to Rwanda for the first time since the 1994 genocide by President Paul Kagame, and the agreement between the governments of the United States and the Republic of Rwanda was signed on July 18, 2008. The first group of volunteers arrived in Rwanda on January 27, 2009.
Other Peace Corps Volunteers in Rwanda work in the health sector, with the vast majority working in rural health centers throughout the country. With the addition of this group of 34 education volunteers, there are now a total of 109 Peace Corps Volunteers working in the city of Kigali and all four provinces of Rwanda.
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