By June, the first Peace Corps recruits began training for assignments in Colombia, Ghana and Tanganyika (now Tanzania). By the end of August, the first Volunteers began their Peace Corps service.

Kennedy established the Peace Corps on March 1, 1961, less than two months into his presidency, and the first volunteers headed out in August—to Ghana. Whether or not the Peace Corps managed to ...

In August 1961, two weeks after the Berlin Wall was built, a Pan Am propjet taxied onto the airport tarmac in the capital of Ghana ... by the Cold War, the Peace Corps was born.

In July of 1978, in my mid-20s, I flew from my native Seattle to Accra, Ghana, for what would be a two-year stay in a rural school teaching high school math with the Peace Corps. At the time ...

As federal agencies undergo scrutiny through the DOGE review process, one of the last to face review is the Peace Corps. Perhaps that’s because it’s small. Perhaps because it’s beloved.

Tawnya Panizzi Saturday, March 1, 2025 1:39 p.m. | Saturday, March 1, 2025 1:39 p.m. Dennis Mialki enrolled in the Peace Corps in 1978 and found himself — at 22 — as the city engineer of ...

The Peace Corps Prep certificate program requires you to take preparatory classes and participate in a cross-cultural, service-oriented experience to build intercultural competency, develop an ...

The head of a Peace Corps alumni group said he was told the cuts would affect full-time employees, not the volunteers working overseas. By David A. Fahrenthold David A. Fahrenthold is an ...

I ended up working in public service for my entire career in Kentucky, and I am thankful for the start that Peace Corps provided.” Terry Anderson, Ghana 1965-67 “I did two tours of Peace Corps.