With about 200 pregnant women attended to each month in only one delivery room, Gbrumani Community-based Health Planning and ...

There is something striking – and sobering – about celebrating Peace Corps Week while, just this past Friday night, President Trump launched a war with Iran. On March 1, 1961, President John F.

The U.S. Peace Corps was established in 1961 by President John F. Kennedy. Returned volunteers often bring valuable skills back to their communities in the U.S. The agency has adapted over time to ...

Whiteside joins the 346 California residents currently serving in the Peace Corps. More than 31,243 California residents have ...

Ghana has received its largest cohort of new volunteers under the Peace Corps programme, with 30 Americans set to begin service across communities nationwide.

The Peace Corps Prep certificate program requires you to take preparatory classes and participate in a cross-cultural, service-oriented experience to build intercultural competency, develop an ...

Ever dream of seeing a foreign country intimately close, immersing yourself in the culture, and living as its people do; while performing service for humanity? For more than 240,000 people who have ...

Thirty new cohorts of the United States Peace Corps Volunteers were sworn in yesterday to officially start volunteer service in health, education and agriculture ...

The Peace Corps turns 65 this year, and it is not ready to retire. The agency, founded by President John F. Kennedy in 1961, has spent the last 65 years fulfilling its mission of sending men and women ...

In 1961, President John F. Kennedy, in his inaugural speech, said “the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans” and he appealed to us to “ask not what your country can do for you, ask ...

(WDBJ) - On this day in 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order establishing the Peace Corps. Since its establishment, over 240,000 Americans have served as Peace Corps volunteers.