User:Bequw/National Volunteer Agencies

National Personal Cooperation Agencies

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Some are volunteers (not actually government employees) and some are (and paid more).

excludes the VOS and Australian Volunteers International) As of July 2007 these are their statics.

Country Program Gov. Org. Founded Service Term # Current Volunteers Total Volunteers
Australia Australian Youth Ambassadors for Development (AYAD) Program of AusAID 1998 3-12 months 400
German Deutscher Entwicklungsdienst (German Development Service) (DED) Non-Profit, 95% government owned 1963 1 year almost 1,000 15,000
Japan Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteer (JOCV) Program of JICA 1965 2 years 2,331 25,184
Korea Korea Overseas Volunteer (KOV) Program of KOICA 1990 2 years 1,258 3,874
Norway Fredskorpset (FK) Answerable to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs 1963 1 year Unknown 1,000
United States of America Peace Corps (PC) Independent government agency 1961 27 months 7,749 187,000

Spain: La AECI es un organismo autónomo adscrito al Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores y de Cooperación Minister of Foreign Affairs (Spain) a través de la Secretaría de Estado para la Cooperación Internacional (SECI).

Official Websites

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