Increase Your Knowledge

Find a Resource

Do Something

Share With Others

Institutions (NGO, GO, Academic)

Other PCVs and Staff

Translation Resources

Root Resources

Once you feel that you have significant knowledge about a topic of concern in your community (book knowledge, yes, but don't underestimate the importance of getting out and surveying or talking with your community and potential counterparts), a good next step is to take stock of the resources at your disposal.


Depending on where you are located, there may be non-Peace Corps institutions in your immediate area. Every site will have some government bodies that deal with agricultural and environmental topics. Some PCV sites will have access to local NGOs- either international or local. Finally, all regions of Thailand have academic institutions whose individual departments may be able to assist you and your community in project planning and implimentation.

Maybe your best resource is other volunteers and RPCVs. You may be aware of other volunteers who are working on projects similar to your own. There may also be prior volunteers who completed a similar camp/ recycling bank/ farmer training a year or two earlier. While we are all lonesome solitary field workers, we nonetheless collectively carry a wealth of useful information*.

Peace Corps staff also includes present and former staff members with a background in agricultural and environmental topics.

ROOT Group also offers direct services to you, the volunteer in the field. We can help with translation resources and a number of other topics.


Zoom through all of that and you it may just be time to get started on your project.


*Please consider increasing this body of knowledge by submitting your own experiences to the ROOT Group website (or CEC, GAD, or any other relevant GIG/Committee).