TODAY MARKS A MILESTONE FOR THE "PEACE CORPS" . ON THIS DAY -- IN 1961 -- PRESIDENT JOHN KENNEDY SIGNED AN EXECUTIVE ORDER ESTABLISHING THE GOVERNMENT AGENCY. SINCE THE START... IT'S BEEN A WAY FOR ...

Peace Corps volunteers pose with the U.S. flag after they are sworn in during a 2002 event in Burkina Faso. Issouf Sanogo/AFP via Getty Images The United States Agency for International Development ...

Many of us former Nepal Peace Corps volunteers (PCVs) would agree that our time in Nepal changed in significant but very different ways our perspectives on life if not the future paths we chose to ...

On Oct. 14, 1960, Sen. John F. Kennedy stood before a gathering of college students at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor and issued a challenge: Serve your country in the cause of peace by ...

Please join us for a conversation with Peace Corps Director Carol Spahn on the future of the Peace Corps and its role in the Indo-Pacific. The event will take place on Monday, November 25th, from 9:00 ...

Walter and Marjorie "Kiki" Kember of 337 Holmes Road recently returned from a tour of duty in the Peace Corps in Conakry, Guinea, West Africa. They described their stint as "a serious thing but a very ...

Organization promises to stop blaming victims of sex assault. May 11, 2011 — -- After emotional testimony from several former Peace Corps volunteers who were victims of sexual assault abroad, the ...

UAB was established as a Peace Corps Partner University in 2017, and the Sparkman Center for Global Health is proud to sponsor the Peace Corps Prep (PCP) Program. The PCP is an undergraduate ...

The Peace Corps ranked the University of Colorado Boulder No. 2 among volunteer-producing colleges and universities in the nation in 2025 rankings, with 39 alumni listed as currently serving in the ...

April 4 (Reuters) - Members of Elon Musk's cost-cutting team arrived at Peace Corps headquarters in Washington, the agency told Reuters, a signal it could become the latest U.S. government agency to ...