Every year, Peace Corps Week commemorates March 1, 1961—the day President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps. The annual celebration honors how the agency fosters connections and contributes ...

Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Brandon Smith dressed in proper parade attire for Hauri, Bolivia's founding celebration. In honor of National Volunteer Week April 21-27, three returned Peace Corps ...

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 ...

With 1,7000 volunteers from Kentucky since 1961, the Peace Corps has adapted with a changing world. It's an experience I wish ...

Pamela Civins brings extensive experience to her current role as CU-Boulder’s Peace Corps Strategic Campus Recruiter. She is a returned Peace Corps volunteer who served in Nepal, working as a teacher ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

Mention Peace Corps and the image of a bright-eyed, optimistic young idealist comes to mind. That's because young people, often straight out of college, have been volunteering two years of their lives ...

On Opening Day, every team wants to start off on the right foot, to get a win and to have as few mistakes as possible. Oregon softball did that... The season begins Sunday for No. 2 Oregon acrobatics ...

ROCKTON - It is touted as “the toughest job you'll ever love.” When four former Peace Corps volunteers shared their experiences at Rockton's Talcott Free Library Thursday night in observance of the ...

Since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, his administration has slashed the work of many U.S. government agencies, including those focused on foreign policy. Now, ...