Peace Corps Belize

I am leaving tomorrow for Belize where I will be living and working for the next twelve months. After already serving as a Peace Corps Volunteer for two years, I often feel like I understand what its all about but I keep reminding myself that this will be a completely different experience.

Belize is a very small country bordered to the north by Mexico, the south and west by Guatemala, and on the Caribbean Sea. The population is only 300,000 people. It was a British colony until it gained independence in 1981. The official language is English though several other languages are spoken including Spanish, Creole, Garifuna, and a few Mayan languages.

Peace Corps Belize works in four sectors: healthy communities, teacher training, youth development, and business and organization management. I will continue as a health volunteer.

I have about two weeks of training in Belmopan and Belize City before moving to my site for the next year. More information to come about this new assignment once I am there and have settled in.