U.S. Peace Corps



The United States Peace Corps was founded in 1961, as part of then-president John Kennedy’s call that Americans ask what they can do for their country.  Its mission has remained, for over 50 years, what it was then:  to promote world peace and friendship.  Its goals, designed to accomplish that mission, are to help people in interested countries meet their needs for trained manpower, to promote a better understanding of America and Americans in those countries, and to promote a better understanding of other countries and people in America.  I love the idea that mutual understanding will promote world peace.  I think it’s probably true. 

The Corps has over 7,000 volunteers in over 60 countries today.  In its 50-plus-year history, it has sent over 210,000 volunteers to 140 countries, some of which have developed to the point that they no longer suffer a need for ‘trained manpower’ from abroad.  So that’s nice, nie?

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