Peace Corps

A self-employed event planner, he had just finished a Peace Corps stint that provided health benefits, but he was still more than a year away from starting a graduate program that would provide coverage through his university.

A former Peace Corps volunteer, Patterson had spent much of her career working on gender and health, but climate change just kept coming up.

Only two months later, in March 1961, Kennedy signed Executive Order 10924, making real his campaign promise to establish a national Peace Corps with the mission to promote world peace and friendship.

Sargent Shriver, Kennedy’s brother-in-law, took on the task of bringing the new Peace Corps to life.

Hastings, 59, a former Peace Corps volunteer, acknowledges that his approach is not designed to work at all companies, particularly “safety-critical” businesses like operators of nuclear power plants.

So what we should do is encourage other programs such as Teach for America, the Peace Corps, Americorp.

In fact, under law the IG is under the same obligation as the Peace Corps to keep personal details private.

Meanwhile, the Peace Corps maintains that it has an overriding obligation to protect the privacy of sexual assault victims.

One spokesperson even worked late into the night to compile statistics related to Peace Corps safety.

Norman Rush and his wife, Elsa, were co-directors of the Peace Corps in Botswana from 1978 to 1983.

We have extended the helping hand of the Peace Corps and carried forward the largest program of economic assistance in the world.

A year ago, less than 900 Peace Corps volunteers were on the job.