Peace Corps stats

This month a significant chunk of my time is being dedicated to writing my Community Diagnostic, a lengthy document that summarizes the information I've gathered about Cajabamba's economic development situation in the last three months. Eventually I will present the report to both Peace Corps staff and important members of my community, while also using my findings to help formulate a work plan for the coming year - it's kind of a big deal.

Anyway, writing the introduction this afternoon had me surfing the web in search of info about Peace Corps as a whole, and I thought I'd share some fun facts.

• Current number of volunteers worldwide: 8,073. About 230 of us are here in Peru.
• Current number of countries served: 76.
• 21% of volunteers are serving in Latin American countries.
• Only 12% of us work in the community economic development program.
• 62% of us are female, and 93% of us are single (i.e. not married).
• The average age of volunteers is 28 - guess I joined a little early.