“Ukraine is not yet dead.” These were the words we translated from the Ukrainian national anthem. We were young Peace Corps ...

Former Peace Corps members shared their concerns and mixed emotions over the agency’s uncertain future as the U.S. government ...

The Peace Corps marks its anniversary today, highlighting its impact on international development and cooperation.

March 1 marked Peace Corps Day when President Kennedy signed a 1961 executive order to establish the Peace Corps. Since 1961, more than 240,000 volunteers have served in 144 countries worldwide ...

On March 1, the Peace Corps will celebrate its 64th anniversary as an independent agency established by President John F.

I served as a Peace Corps volunteer in Lesotho, an experience that changed my life. As a professor at Wittenberg University, I have taken more than 500 students on service-learning trips to Lesotho, ...

Raised in a rural Kentucky town, our youngest daughter went on to help adult learners all over the world. DOGE's USAID cuts ...

Dennis Mialki enrolled in the Peace Corps in 1978 and found himself — at 22 — as the city engineer of Siguatepeque, Honduras, ...

Its avowed purpose was to ‘promote the cause of freedom and democracy’ and to enable ‘young Americans to serve the cause of ...

Learn more. On March 1, 1961, President Kennedy launched a bold experiment: the Peace Corps. Since its founding, nearly 250,000 U.S. citizens, including 2,000 from the state of Maine, have served ...