Early crew members of the voyaging canoe Hokulea have gathered in Hawai'i to celebrate the vessel's 50th birthday ...

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

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

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

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

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

I am one of the nearly quarter-million Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs) who is celebrating Peace Corps Week in ...

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 ...

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 as Peace Corps volunteers in 140 ...

The Peace Corps, billed as “the toughest job you’ll ever love,” has promoted world peace and friendship for 64 years. The ...

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