(WDBJ) - On this day in 1961, President John F. Kennedy signed an executive order establishing the Peace Corps. Since its establishment, over 240,000 Americans have served as Peace Corps volunteers.

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 ...

Since March 1, 1961, when President John F. Kennedy signed the executive order to establish the Peace Corps, more than 240,000 Americans have served in 141 countries. Now sixty years later, the Peace ...

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