Karestan Koenen reveals sexual assault while serving in Peace Corps in Africa. May 9, 2011 — -- Karestan Koenen, a former Peace Corps volunteer who was raped while serving in the African country ...

As programs like the Peace Corps are being targeted for administrative review, I thought it might be valuable to share my experiences with the Peace Corps and how it came to involve West Virginia. It ...

"No matter where you are, people are people, and no matter where you are, you find a way to fit in," she said this past week. The 2007 graduate of Portage High School returned home for the holidays ...

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 Getty Images The United States Agency for International Development ...

Walter and Marjorie "Kiki" Kember of 337 Holmes Road recently returned from a tour of duty in the Peace Corps in Conakry, Guinea, West Africa. They described their stint as "a serious thing but a very ...

Alexx Goeller returned home to Cottonwood Heights in May after working in Senegal for two years with the Peace Corps, focusing on economic development. Goeller, now 25 and working for the United Way ...

Re: “The Peace Corps is needed more than ever” (May 24, Opinion): I am thankful for the My Take essay by Kathleen M. Corey. Because of all I learned in Peace Corps in Africa, many American students ...

As a Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco in the mid-1990s, Liz Fanning was repeatedly asked by locals how they could serve their country. “That question changed my life, but I didn’t know it at the time, ...

Two American Peace Corps volunteers have been isolated after being exposed to the widening Ebola outbreak in West Africa. T his is the largest known outbreak on record with roughly 700 deaths across ...

In the summer of 1990, I ditched my mind-numbing corporate job with its SoCal commute and female power suit of pantyhose, skirts and silk blouses with bow ties to sign up for a two-year, ...

March 1 was the day President John F. Kennedy signed the Peace Corps into existence in 1961, though I suspect that few, even former volunteers, are aware of Peace Corps Day. These volunteers deserve ...