Lately, I’ve been receiving a few emails about how many different ‘types’ of volunteers there are in the Peace Corps. Fortunately, the Peace Corps web site has plenty of information – this is just a short ‘cheat sheet’ on PC in Bolivia. 
The Peace Corps in Bolivia (specifically) has six active programs at the moment: Agriculture, Agri-business, Tourism, Micro-enterprise, Basic Sanitation, and Integrated Education. Each volunteer is assigned to a program before setting off for training here in the country. Yours truly has been fortunate enough to land in integrated education (I.E.). 
Most of the programs are self-explanatory – but volunteers are forever crossing over into each others’ areas of service – exchanging information and experiences. There are plenty of ‘Ag’ and ‘Ag-biz’ volunteers that teach English and just as many ‘Basic Sanners’ who teach environmental education.
That said, I have more information about integrated education than the other programs – so this is more or less my definition of the Peace Corps’ idea of integrated education :
Integrated education volunteers are trained to be able to respond to an ever widening range of needs or desires voiced by their community; from building libraries and internet cafes, to helping teachers plan lessons and teaching various subjects, to helping womens groups market and sell their goods. In reality, this ends up giving I.E. volunteers a great measure of flexibility. A few of us think of the Integrated Education program as the ‘liberal arts’ version of the Peace Corps.
Saludos! 
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