Peace Corps

Minister of Health Silas Bule Melve received the training package which includes the facilitator’s handbook, training slides, resources for group activities and training notes for contact tracing.

The training materials were developed by the Peace Corps office to help the ministry train more staff on contact tracing.

The Peace Corps Country Director Penny Alexandar, officially handed over the training package yesterday at the Peace Corps office in Port Vila.

The camp focused on training pairs of Peace Corps Volunteers and counterparts along with local community members in a variety of activities that they can take back to their respective villages and replicate for the youths in their communities.

Camp GLOW/BILD consists of a jam-packed, week-long schedule that starts with leadership and life skills and slowly transitions to adolescent reproductive health and sexual rights and responsibilities.

Woodburn earned a Bachelor of Science in community health with a minor in nutrition at George Mason University in Fairfax in 2018. Prior to joining the Peace Corps, she volunteered with Vida Volunteer and Research in Kenya.

During the first three months of her service, Woodburn will live with a host family in Vanuatu to become fully immersed in the country’s language and culture. After acquiring the necessary skills to assist her community, she will be sworn into service and assigned to a community in Vanuatu, where she will live and work for two years with the local people.