Youʼve been challenged! Can you hack it and “Live Like a Peace Corps Volunteer” for a week? At Peace Corps we are celebrating our 50th anniversary and we want you to be a part of it! The “Live Like a PCV Challenge” is a project to help raise awareness about Peace Corps within the U.S. while giving those who take up the challenge a small taste of Volunteer life. The challenge will take place during first week of each month (the 1st-7th) from December 2010 through 2011. The Peace Corps mission is:

Help the people of interested countries in meeting their need for trained men and women. Goal 2: Help promote a better understanding of Americans on the part of the peoples served. Goal 3: Help promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans. Goal 1:

Below you will find the guide lines of the Challenge, as well as learn how you can help us with our mission and celebration.

The Challenge For one week you are asked to give up some of the everyday conveniences we do without as Peace Corps Volunteers. Our project started out with Mongolian volunteers but now we are happy to have many different Peace Corps countries you can represent. Each country has slightly different rules for the challenge, reflecting the different living conditions and cultures of the areas we serve. If you did not receive a specific country along with this document, or wish to see the other countries involved check out “The Challenge” page at LiveLikeaPCV.org

•First decide which country you want to represent, which set of rules you wish to follow. •Then, look through the country rules you chose and decide which one of the five levels of difficulty you want to take on.

•Next, decide which month you want to participate. The first week of the month you choose (the 1st-7th) will be when you need to give up your items.

•Finally, let us know that youʼve taken up the challenge by completing the Accept the Challenge section of this form.

There is a bit more to this challenge than just giving up some comforts for seven days. We ask that you take that extra step and share your experience. First of all we would love to know how it went for you and to share that with currently serving Volunteers. But more importantly for our mission we would like you to share your efforts with others there in the United States. By sharing your story you can help raise awareness of what we do thereby helping us in our mission.

The three main ways you can do this are. 1. Fill out, and return our press release form. 2. Write up your own editorial or letter to the editor for your local paper. (see our “Share your Story” section of LiveLikeaPCV.org)

3. Tell your friends and family about your challenge, let them know what your doing and why. Maybe even challenge them! Also, we currently serving Volunteers would love to know how the Challenge went for you and to share that story with other Volunteers and post some on our website, please email us about your experience at [email protected] When youʼve successfully completed your Challenge cheek out our “Show Support” page at LiveLikeaPCV.org for gear to let others know of your triumph and help us spread the word.

Accept the Challenge To take part in our challenge please answer these questions and send your responses to [email protected]

What is your name? Where do you live? When will you “Live Like a PCV”? What country are you representing (which country rules are you following)? What level are you going for, and which things are you giving up if applicable? (optional) Is this the email address we should use to contact you? ---✁--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Press Release Is it ok for us to contact any media in your area and let them know of your efforts to help us? (This may result in them visiting your home to do a story. Trust me itʼs not nearly as scary as it may sound) YES / NO

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What is your phone number? What is your email? When and how is the best way to reach you? Why are you participating in “Live Like a PCV”? Do you know any current or returned volunteers?

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When will you be participating in the challenge?

(if yes, who, where did/do they serve, and what is their relationship to you)

(To accept please email us this statement ([email protected]) when you accept the challenge, to decline just leave this statement out “I your name do herby agree to allow Peace Corps to contact any media outlets to inform them of my participation in the “Live Like a PCV Challenge” and in doing so distribute my above information so as those media outlets may contact me”)

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To see who else is participating in the Challenge and for other information check out LiveLikeaPCV.org

No mater how much or how little you decided to do with our “Live Like a PCV Challenge” we would like to thank you for your efforts to help us in our mission. Even something as simple as passing on the challenge is extremely supportive.

Sincerely, Live Like a PCV Project Team