This is Peace Corps Week, marking the 64th anniversary of the March 1, 1961, start of the Peace Corps through an executive order signed by President John Kennedy. Congress would pass ...
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 ...
Since the Peace Corps was established in 1961, over 240,000 Americans have served in 144 countries. Currently, about 3,300 volunteers (less than half the 7,000 serving prior to the pandemic ...
Having served as a Peace Corps volunteer in the Philippines (1978-1980), I am one of the nearly quarter-million Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, who recently celebrated Peace Corps Week in ...
Peace Corps boosts U.S. Peace Corps week marks the 64th anniversary of the start of the Peace Corps through an executive order signed by President John F. Kennedy and authorized by ...
I am one of nearly a quarter million Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs) nationwide, with 14,561 of us from New York. At the end of February, we celebrate Peace Corps Week, honoring the ...