Peace Corps Fiji is pleased to announce the recommencement of its 2-year Volunteer service program.

Today, the first Peace Corps Volunteer in over two years arrived to Fiji, relaunching a program that has been on hold since the COVID-19 pandemic interrupted it in March.

In today’s Welcome Back to Service event at the Tanoa Plaza, Peace Corps Fiji, its partners, and other
likeminded agencies, groups and individuals have an opportunity to celebrate the following:

1) The re-entry of Peace Corps Volunteers into Fiji,

2) The strong partnerships built and fostered over the past 2 years that paved the way for this
successful return of Volunteers,

3) The resilience and creativity of Peace Corps Staff who consistently gave all of themselves
professionally during the challenging pandemic,

4) Peace Corps Fiji’s successful COVID Response and Recovery initiatives, such as its support of
vaccine hesitancy trainings with local nurses and the series community economic development
workshops that it offered.

Peace Corps Fiji Country Director, Kury Cobham, stated that “this is an exciting moment for Peace Corps
Fiji as an organisation.” “We are proud to receive our first Volunteers back to service, reinforcing our commitment to the Government of Fiji as it makes gains on its development priorities,” said Cobham.

Today’s re-entry of Volunteers into Fiji is a post-COVID milestone. It marks the first Peace Corps
Volunteer to return to any Pacific nation since the start of the pandemic.

It also marks the first step in a buildup of Peace Corps Fiji’s Volunteer numbers. By the end of 2023, the agency plans to have over 50 two-year serving Volunteers living and partnering professionally with host communities throughout Viti Levu.

Peace Corps Volunteers work under programmatic frameworks built collaboratively by Peace Corps,
government, and NGO partners. The frameworks span different areas of focus, but always revolve
around a facilitative, people-to-people, assets-based model.

Peace Corps Fiji thanks the Government and people of Fiji for their trust and partnership with Peace
Corps over the last 54 years. The future is bright, and the agency looks forward to seeing what they and
local partners can accomplish together