Peace Corps Chief of Staff Stacy Rhodes recounts his experiences. Peace Corps Chief of Staff Stacy Rhodes discussed his organization’s role in international development on Tuesday. The talk was held ...

Many of us former Nepal Peace Corps volunteers (PCVs) would agree that our time in Nepal changed in significant but very different ways our perspectives on life if not the future paths we chose to ...

OGDEN DUNES — Allison Kniola returned home earlier this month with a new appreciation for life. For the last two years, Kniola, 25, has been teaching children in a small village in Uganda how to read.

Vanessa Paolella, a Bates College graduate and former Sun Journal writer, continues to live in Madagascar working with deaf ...

Kea leboha Working Bikes bakeng sa libaesekele ho ntlafatsa maphelo a bana ba rona.” Nope, not a typo. This Sesotho ...

In 1962, Don Yates had just set foot in a remote part of the Philippines to start a two-year stint with the newly founded Peace Corps when he encountered tragedy. Three villagers went “running amok” — ...

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

It was not what I expected, but just what I needed. John Sheetz, who is a consultant in behavioral health and leadership and a Returned Peace Corps Volunteer who served in Ukraine, came to speak to ...

Shepherd University has been named a Peace Corps Prep institution, joining a select group of colleges dedicated to preparing students for global service, according to a community announcement.

Every year, Peace Corps Week commemorates March 1, 1961—the day President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps. The annual celebration honors how the agency fosters connections and contributes ...

On March 1, the Peace Corps will celebrate its 64th anniversary as an independent agency established by President John F. Kennedy. Given the recent halt of foreign aid and the gutting of U.S. Agency ...

As a child I dreamed of an adventurous world-career. In grade school, without traveling far away from our then relatively remote Blue Ridge mountains, I somehow imagined in my lifetime becoming a ...