Peace Corps staffers are bracing for deep cuts at the agency, ones they fear will do untold damage to one of the last remaining programs promoting development and fostering goodwill abroad. Employees ...

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, ...

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 ...

Peace Corps volunteer Marya Cota-Wilson gives a gardening lesson in Costa Rica in the 1980s. Getty Images In March 2020, at the start of Covid-19 lockdowns, as flights were grounded and people around ...

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 ...

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, ...

The question was from an African-American newsroom colleague, and it knocked me back. It was the late 1990s, and I had just announced that I was joining the Peace Corps, assigned to a remote ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...