Charles Waid of Meadville has been accepted into the Peace Corps. He will depart for Paraguay on Sunday to begin training as ...

Thinking about serving in the Peace Corps after you graduate? Hoping to work in international development? Interested in community service and intercultural understanding? Consider joining Sac State's ...

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 ...

We live in a world of deepening, serious threats. The invasion of Ukraine, the struggle to overcome COVID-19 and the need for a robust response to climate change are some of the present global ...

The Peace Corps turns 65 this year, and it is not ready to retire. Since 1961, more than 2,000 Tennesseans have served as Peace Corps volunteers, including 43 Tennesseans now serving as agricultural ...

(Reuters) -Members of Elon Musk's cost-cutting team arrived at Peace Corps headquarters in Washington, the agency told Reuters, a signal it could become the latest U.S. government agency to face job ...

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, ...

Inspired by President John F. Kennedy’s clarion call to service in 1961, more than 240,000 Americans have served in 144 different countries as Peace Corps volunteers. They have helped expand the ...

In a speech at the University of Michigan in 1960, John F. Kennedy challenged US college graduates to volunteer in underprivileged countries for the cause of peace. A year later the Peace Corps was ...

The Peace Corps is eliminating more than 20 percent of its workforce, the agency announced to employees earlier this month, in an effort to meet the demands in an executive order from President Trump.

Vanessa Paolella, a writer, columnist and former Auburn resident, will speak Thursday at the Great Falls Forum.