BELIZE CITY, Belize — Since 1961, Conrad Lewis has seen many Peace Corps volunteers pass through his home village of Hopkins. Until recently, he said, all of them contributed to the welfare of ...

The countries are Belize, Colombia, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador and Zambia, and the agency plans to add more in 2022. If the timeline holds, the Peace Corps will deploy volunteers ...

Festerling came to appreciate the value of a simple meal during three separate postings in the U.S. Peace Corps. He took his teaching skills to Kenya, Belize and Kiribati (formerly the Gilbert Islands ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I was selected to be a member of the first Peace Corps group to go to Ethiopia in 1962, I was a part of a new generation determined to change the world. Little did I know then how much that ...

Applicants have challenged the Peace Corps practice of rescinding invitations to applicants on the basis of mental health conditions. By Ellen Barry Lea Iodice was thrilled to hear that the Peace ...

As an ex-Peace Corps volunteer, I read with interest Victor K. Barbiero’s letter (“Honor veterans of peace,” Letters to the Editor, Nov. 11) in which he proposes veterans’ benefits for ...