San Diego Peace Corps Association

SDPCA community - one of our members shared a job posting with Feeding San Diego. Check it out!

Partnerships Coordinator, South Region Company Description: Feeding San Diego is a non-profit organization on a mission to connect every person facing hunger with nutritious meals by maximizing food rescue. Established in 2007, Feeding San Diego rescues surplus food from local and national food donors before it goes to waste and gets it....

We had such a great time touring Societe Brewing Company! We love supporting local RPCV adjacent businesses!

Hello San Diego RPCVs, check out what's happening next week in Riverside County! A SoCal Peace Corps Jamboree!

It might be short notice. But, if anyone is going or decides to go please report back! We wanna know more!

We are so excited to share this Youtube Playlist! So Say We All - A local Storytelling Non-profit reached out to the SD Peace San Diego Peace Corps Association to invite us to tell our stories - and here they are!

So Say We All Dana Weimar

24_4 - SD Peace Corps Volunteer Association VAMP Storytelling Showcase: If You're Not Laughing, You're Crying Performances from April 2024 San Diego Peace Corps Volunteer Association VAMP Storytelling Showcase, “If You’re Not Laughing, You’re Crying,” recorded at Tho...

Please join us in welcoming the two newest members to the SDPCA board: Dana Weimar, RPCV El Salvador and MaryKate Lowndes, RPCV Honduras. 🎉 We’re so excited for you to join the team!

📆 Annual Meeting & Potluck Peace Picnic ☮️ 🧺
was a success! We connected over yummy food 🤤, got competitive with trivia, and voted on donating $2,000 to PC projects. 💵💕

Here are the voting results:
31% - $628.57 will be donated to a borehole project in Tanzania 🇹🇿
29% - $571.43 will support a Youth Camp for Career Readiness and Life Skills in Morocco 🇲🇦
14% - $285.71 will help fund a Recycling Project in Kyrgyz Republic
26% - $514.29 is supporting an Economic Empowerment through Digital Literacy Conference in Dominican Republic 🇩🇴

Thank you for coming and continuing to make a difference across the world! 💗🌍

Please join us in welcoming the two newest members to the SDPCA board: Dana Weimar, RPCV El Salvador and MaryKate Lowndes, RPCV Honduras. 🎉 We’re so excited for you to join the team!

📆 Annual Meeting & Potluck Peace Picnic ☮️ 🧺
was a success! We connected over yummy food 🤤, got competitive with trivia, and voted on donating $2,000 to PC projects. 💵💕

Here are the voting results:
31% - $628.57 will be donated to a borehole project in Tanzania 🇹🇿
29% - $571.43 will support a Youth Camp for Career Readiness and Life Skills in Morocco 🇲🇦
14% - $285.71 will help fund a Recycling Project in Kyrgyz Republic
26% - $514.29 is supporting an Economic Empowerment through Digital Literacy Conference in Dominican Republic 🇩🇴

Thank you for coming and continuing to make a difference across the world! 💗🌍

Thank you to everyone who volunteered at the Door of Faith Orphanage in Baja! 💗

Tonight's the night!! See you at 8pm for RPCV stories from around the world and local brews! 🍻🌎🕊️❤️🥳

So Say We All is proud to partner with the San Diego Peace Corps Association for a special night of stories at Thorn Brewing. Peace Corps volunteers bring their tales to the mic tomorrow at 8pm at 3176 Thorn St. Come join us for an unforgettable night: San Diego Peace Corps Association VAMP: If You're Not Laughing, You're Crying

Featuring performances by:

Paul Courtright
Jess Petrencsik
Jeremy Bauer
Tabatha Tovar
John Lee Evans
Marni Wilpert

Come join us for a fun night of Peace Corps stories from around the world and local San Diego brews! 🎤🌎❤️🕊️🍻

SDPCA & VAMP: "If You’re Not Laughing You’re Crying”
Friday, April 19th @ 8pm
Thorn St. Brewing
3176 Thorn St, San Diego, CA 92104
$10 suggested donation

We are excited to partner with So Say We All for this awesome event! 🥳

The Peace Corps has sent American volunteers to serve in a humanitarian capacity in 60 countries since its founding in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy. As part of their mission—The 3rd Goal—is to ”to increase Americans' understanding of other peoples and cultures.” So Say We All is proud to partner with the San Diego Peace Corps Association to advance that goal, and bring the stories of their returned volunteers to the stage in a fully produced VAMP Storytelling Showcase. We hope you join us to learn more about our world, and the true stories of the people who have dedicated a fundamental part of their lives to improving the quality of life others.

Come out and support your fellow SDPCA RPCVs!

So Say We All presents a special VAMP show featuring San Diego Peace Corps Association volunteers: "If You're Not Laughing, You're Crying" is Friday, 4/19 at Thorn Street Brewery (3176 Thorn St)!

MEET YOUR VAMP! Tabatha Tovar is the friend you want to talk to when deciding which tattoo to get. That is, as long as you don't mind talking about it while driving with her to get her many, many kids to their destinations or crawling under bushes with her to help dig up worms for her turtle.

Thank you to everyone who made it out to the Habitat Recovery event! SDPCA members spent their Saturday morning planting prickly pear cactus on Bernardo Mountain to create a cactus wren habitat.🌵🐦
Hopefully the wrens will be singing 🎶 Home sweet home 🎶 Special thanks to Paul Courtright for leading the event! 💕

Hello San Diego RPCVs. We have exciting news! The national LGBTQI+ RPCV Community group has re-formed after a 6 year hiatus. Membership in this community is free! The SDPCA community will hope to collaborate with them on future advocay inititives and/or social events. Because all are welcome here! Check them out on thier new website!

LGBTQIA+ RPCV Join our incredible online community. Connect with other RPCVs, plan a meetup in your area, and more. Click to get started.

From our member Brittany L. Check out this cool event:

Feed People, Not Landfills Volunteer Shift & Film Screening Join us on Saturday, April 20, from 4 to 7 p.m. for a special Feed People, Not Landfills volunteer shift.

We have a great community activity coming up! Saturday, March 30, 9am to noon. See you there! Please, RSVP on our Evite here: http://evite.me/W1SeCPcVYv

Join us for an RPCV Happy Hour today! 🥳❤️🍻

We will meet on back patio. Easy parking at brewery or nearby free public lots.

WHEN: Thursday, March 14, 2024
TIME: 5:00 PM PT

WHERE: Black Plague, Escondido

HOSTED BY
San Diego Peace Corps Association (SDPCA)

😋 Taste the World 🌍 was a success!!!
🥣 21 dishes from 19 different countries were served🧑‍🍳
💗100 RPCVs, friends, and family connected 💕
💰$1,388 was raised to donate to PC projects 🎉
☮️ Thank you for coming to eat to support the Peace Corps!

😋 Taste the World 🌎 is happening tomorrow! Register to enjoy soups and stews from a variety of countries: sdpca.org/taste

5 to 7pm
First Unitarian Universalist Church of San Diego
4190 Front Street, San Diego (Hillcrest) 92103

Early Bird Price: $20 per person
(ends Friday March 1 at 6 pm)
At the door: $25 per person

5 days until our favorite event! 😋 Buy your tickets now for $5 off. We hope to see you there! 💕

Invite your friends and family to join us!

Friends! Join us in San Diego this coming Saturday to celebrate Peace Corps week at Taste the World!
Get your ticket at

Taste the World Early Bird Price: $20 per person (ends Friday March 1 at 6 pm) At the door: $25 per person Children (12 and under): $10 Cash or credit cards accepted

Who’s that?! The SDPCA’s own Sarah Fuhrmann Thorwirth! How exciting that she got to help with this incredible project!

Storytelling Workshop: San Diego Peace Corps Volunteer Association — So Say We All Everybody has a story to tell, but Peace Corps volunteers acquire a collection that have to be heard to be believed. And that’s just what we’re aiming to accomplish! San Diego’s Storytelling arts and education non-profit, So Say We All, will be facilitating a nonfiction writing for San Diego P...

Calling SDPCA aspiring storytellers! Let's do this! Learn to write - and maybe even tell your PC stories! Join us for the writing workshop by the storytelling organization 'So Say We All' at Alesmith on Sunday afternoon. Check your evite to RSVP. If you're not getting the evites message us here. See you soon!

Storytelling Workshop: San Diego Peace Corps Volunteer Association — So Say We All Everybody has a story to tell, but Peace Corps volunteers acquire a collection that have to be heard to be believed. And that’s just what we’re aiming to accomplish! San Diego’s Storytelling arts and education non-profit, So Say We All, will be facilitating a nonfiction writing for San Diego P...

SDPCA Community, Our member Colin Lee (RPCV Dominican Republic 1998-2000) is inviting us to help with a passion project. It's a great opportunity to get together and do some good for our world.

Please join in an opportunity to help do beach restoration for the federally endangered California Least Tern, which nest along our shores in the spring and summer. The San Diego Natural History Museum and the birds are in need of help and this would be a great opportunity for the SDPCA to get together!
Date/Time: Saturday, February 24, 7:45am-12:00.
Info from the Museum:

The Nat is completing a unique conservation project at the San Dieguito Lagoon in an effort to restore nesting sites of the Least Tern. This is a really special opportunity to participate in a hands-on conservation experience on restricted access sites. Our goal is to increase the availability of suitable habitat for these endangered birds by removing dense vegetation and distributing oyster shells before the next breeding season. I am hoping your team would like to help our team with our conservation efforts by removing vegetation for the California Least Tern.

If you'd like to participate, click this link to sign up and also post your interest below or message Colin Lee (RPCV Dominican Republic 1998-2000) so we can track how many are attending. Be sure to identify SDPCA under "How did you hear about this event?"
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1nl56AFyabc7tc30u0_jjoITseD0Z-IAyrE7WtAVERUo/edit?ts=6532ece8

☮️ Peace Corps South Indian Brunch 🤤 - SO Good!

☮️ Peace Corps Sunrise Hike 🌄 - Beautiful crew on a beautiful morning 💗