Teach for the World Vs. Peace Corps (New York Times' blog)

The New York Times op-ed columnist Nick Kristof mentions his visit to CGD in his blog On the Ground.

From the article:

"There’s some analogy with Peace Corps. While Peace Corps volunteers have much more impact on poor countries than Teach for the World volunteers would, it’s certainly also true that PC volunteers benefit much more than their communities do from the experience. PC volunteers are transformed, the villages are improved. Peace Corps alumni have had their biggest impact not on foreign villages, but on the American aid community; just this week I spoke at the Center for Global Development, and I was amazed to see how many people in the audience were PC alums. So Teach for the World could expand that constituency for development."

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