On March 15th, Jody Olsen, the Director of the Peace Corps, posted a historic, and to some people surprising, letter on the Peace Corps website. For the first time in the history of the Peace Corps, ...

The United States government established the Peace Corps in 1961 as a civilian army to provide aid to underdeveloped countries. Since its creation, more than 215,000 volunteers have served in 139 ...

As Congress comes back in session after its August recess, the future success of Peace Corps rests in their hands as they review the Appropriations Bill. In his Jan. 20, 1961, inaugural address, ...

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 ...

The Peace Corps has announced UW–Madison as No. 1 on the agency’s list for number of volunteers produced during fiscal year 2023. Since the founding of the Peace Corps in 1961, 2,766 Badgers have ...

The Peace Corps has evacuated its volunteers from Peru amid a political crisis that has included deadly crackdowns by the government on its citizens. Troy Blackwell, a spokesperson for the Peace Corps ...

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. Returning ...

Getting paid for one federal job while doing another has caught up with a former Peace Corps official from Maryland. Evester Edd, 64, of Silver Spring, was sentenced on Monday, Sept. 28, to two years ...

The Peace Corps celebrates its 60 th anniversary this year, but due to the COVID-19 pandemic there are currently no Peace Corps volunteers serving abroad. As the Peace Corps program practices ...

Paula Ospina was in the final months of her two-year assignment as a Peace Corps volunteer in Senegal, where she was working on community-health projects, when the coronavirus reached West Africa. In ...

President John Kennedy during a White House ceremony saluting Peace Corps trainees as they prepare to take up their posts in twelve foreign countries.(Photo by Bettmann Archive/Getty Images) The Peace ...