The Dean of the Group of African Ambassadors in Ghana and the Ambassador of the Royal Kingdom of Morocco, Imane Ouaadil, has ...

Day with a call for a continued deepening of regional integration, strengthening of democratic governance, and investing in ...

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.

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.

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 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 ...

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.

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 ...