SHADING their eyes against the sun, two men talked in the empty schoolyard in the crossroads village of San Manuel, Chile, 60 miles south of Santiago. In the distance loomed the snowcapped Andes; near ...

Is the Peace Corps still around? Is it as relevant now as when it was created by President John F. Kennedy in 1960? What impact do Peace Corps volunteers play post-service? These are questions I hear ...

Rachel and Mamadou Savané, owner of Sav’s Chill, met in Guinea, where Rachel was volunteering with the Peace Corps. It is National Volunteer Week, an ideal time to be reminded that since the early ...

While most Americans spend their Fourth of July enjoying parades and celebrating America, Sandra Bowers was packing to leave it behind for a bit. Bowers was learning to travel light as she prepared to ...

MANILA, April 30 (Reuters) - Police in the northern Philippines have filed preliminary murder charges against a woodcarver who confessed he killed a U.S. Peace Corps volunteer after mistaking her for ...

Shepherd University has been named a Peace Corps Prep institution, joining a select group of colleges dedicated to preparing students for global service, according to a community announcement.

Valerie Fronczak looks back at her time in the Peace Corps with fondness. The U.S. Air Force veteran served as a computer programmer with the Peace Corps in Malawi, a landlocked country in southeast ...

(Washington Post illustration, with photos from Sharece Bunn, Diane Rodhill and Alejandro Becerra; iStock) “Ukraine is not yet dead.” These were the words we translated from the Ukrainian national ...

Peace Corps staffers are bracing for deep cuts at the agency, ones they fear will do untold damage to one of the last remaining programs promoting development and fostering goodwill abroad. Employees ...