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Since President Donald Trump returned to the White House in January 2025, his administration has slashed the work of many U.S. government agencies, including those focused on foreign policy. Now, ...

Rachel and Mamadou Savané, owner of Sav’s Chill, met in Guinea, where Rachel was volunteering with the Peace Corps. It is National Volunteer Week, an ideal time to be reminded that since the early ...

On May 20, the U.S. Peace Corps posted a brief statement on its website announcing that the volunteer cohorts scheduled to depart in June for Cameroon and the Kyrgyz Republic were cancelled. “As part ...

On a cold October night in 1960, 10,000 University of Michigan students awaited presidential candidate John Kennedy. He arrived at 2 a.m. In an impromptu speech, he asked for volunteers to work in ...

Over six decades, more than 240,000 Peace Corps volunteers have served in 61 countries. I served as an agricultural-extension volunteer in Panama and a health-education volunteer in Nicaragua in the ...

Rochester Institute of Technology has received the “Peace Corps Prep” designation, enabling its students to take certain classes to better prepare them for service in the Peace Corps upon graduation.

One of the agencies I hit up was the Peace Corps, which recently responded with an interesting set of records. Read on to see what I found. And be sure to listen to Tuesday’s episode of my podcast, ...

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 ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) The United States Agency for International Development largely shut down in February ...