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

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

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

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, ...

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 ...

Saturday, March 1, marked the 64th year since launch of the Peace Corps. Its unwavering mission of promoting cross-cultural understanding and grass-roots development profoundly changed me.