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2. Peace Corps - Wikipedia

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   The Peace Corps is an independent agency and program of the United States government that trains and deploys volunteers to provide international development assistance. It was established in March 1961 by an executive order (10924) of President John F. Kennedy and authorized by Congress the following September by the Peace Corps Act.

3. Peace Corps agrees to pay $750,000 to family of dead volunteer

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   The Peace Corps has agreed to pay $750,000 to the family of a 24-year-old volunteer from Illinois who died in 2018 in East Africa after the agency’s doctors misdiagnosed a case of malaria, a law ...

4. US will resume Peace Corps program in Palau as it moves to ...

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   The Peace Corps programs in Palau and in the Federated States of Micronesia began in 1966 but were shut down in 2014 after more than 4,400 volunteers had served there.

5. Peace Corps at 60: Service changed lives of Valley volunteers

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   Feb. 28—At a time when the Peace Corps has suspended all operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic and recalled 7,300 volunteers from 60 countries — a first for the six-decade-old program ...

6. International Voluntary Services - Wikipedia

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   Forty-eight volunteers served in two countries and three in three countries. The typical assignment was two years, but some were much less than this and some much longer. Forty-three IVS volunteers also served as Peace Corps volunteers, and at least 15 IVS volunteers and staff also served in Peace Corps staff and management positions. [21]

7. National Peace Corps Association - Wikipedia

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   Their aim was to offer returning Peace Corps volunteers in America a continuing mission and communal identity as Returned Peace Corps Volunteers (RPCVs). [6] [7] In 1979, this group joined with RPCV community leaders in New York and Washington, D.C., to form the National Council of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, which was incorporated in 1981 ...

8. Peace Corps returns to duty abroad after pandemic forced ...

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   The Peace Corps announces it will redeploy its volunteers two years after its sudden evacuation of all 7,000 volunteers abroad. Peace Corps returns to duty abroad after pandemic forced sudden ...

9. Peace Corps Commemorative - Wikipedia

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   The Peace Corps Commemorative is a proposed national commemorative work in Washington, D.C. honoring the historic founding of the Peace Corps and the enduring American ideals that motivated its founding and are expressed in Peace Corps service. The Peace Corps is a volunteer-sending program run by the United States government. Congress ...