Once volunteers are accepted into the Peace Corps and notified where they’ll be serving, they must carefully decide which items get to make the journey overseas with them, from the practical to the sentimental.
The Peace Corps provides volunteers a list of suggested items, with variations based on which of the agency’s 65 host countries they will soon call home.
There are the common standbys — like reliable shoes and clothing, a water bottle, batteries, an all-purpose knife, a flashlight, a camera and a journal — and then there are the items that are specific to a particular country or region. In Namibia, for instance, volunteers might want to bring a headlamp to cope with the lack of electricity, while volunteers in the Republic of Georgia might consider investing in warm socks to combat freezing winter temperatures.
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