Fellows Program Overview

Village Corps Fellows are accepted on a competitive basis, evaluated on their experience, passion, knowledge, and interpersonal qualifications. Fellows are positioned according to interests, experience, and qualifications. The long-term objective of the program is to have an international volunteer network of development practitioners each working with a village to help it get on the path toward ‘regenerative prosperity’.

The program shares knowledge and experience about the Village Corps systemic approach to development rooted in four distinct yet inter-related areas:

Within each of these areas, strategic partnerships with the foremost practitioners in these respective fields provide insight and share experiential knowledge with the Fellows on their learning journeys.

Through the program, Fellows will work with local village representatives and resource partners to help villagers to become self-reliant - to take ownership of their circumstances and to work collectively towards a sustainable and prosperous community.

Fellows do not solve problems, rather they work with villagers to identify system failures, evaluate those failures then engage, empower, and mobilize villagers to create sustainable solutions on their own through the use of a vast network of resources on the Village Corps web platform.