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• Peace Corps leader to SBU: 'It's a sacred trust'

  Corps director Aaron S. Williams said volunteers are in high demand and the agency continues to aggressively recruit students willing to work on health, environmental and community projects throughout the world."It's a sacred trust," Williams told about 120   Read more »

• Zimmerman: To free Tibet, boycott China

  my 16-year-old daughter, she affixed the same words to her water bottle.And still, Tibet is not free.In fact, it's less so. My Peace Corps years corresponded to a brief period of liberalization in Tibet, following the death of Chinese dictator Mao Zedong .   Read more »

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• PHOTO GALLERY: Kennedy Legacy Trail dedicated to family in Hyannis

  in Guatemala where she worked on food security. Ryan and Liljestrand recalled fondly the dapperly dressed R. Sargent Shriver, Kennedy’s brother-in-law and the founding director of the Peace Corps. Susan Vaughn can be reached at svaughn@wickedlocal.com 9:41 AM from Wicked Local - Barnstable Read more »

• Valid Lush to perform at benefit for Chicago HOPES

  organization that provides tutoring and enrichment programing to children in homeless shelters, before he leaves to join the Peace Corps. Luis Valadez, 29, a Columbia alumnus with a degree in poetry and program director of Chicago HOPES, will be leaving the 5/30/12 from Columbia Chronicle Read more »

• Success Stories: Fairy Tales & the Crack Epidemic

  is a proud alum of Howard University and has recently accepted an invitation to serve as a Health Education volunteer with the Peace Corps in Kenya. Find out more at www.teneashapierson.com. At six years old, I was the princess of a magic kingdom eponymously 5/30/12 from Humanitarian News Read more »

• MITT’S PITCH FOR AMERICA

  however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival”? Perhaps John F. Kennedy’s creation of the Peace Corps would have fell flat as just another humanitarian bureaucracy without his infamous call to public service wherein he stated,   from Constitution Club Read more »

• U.S. Peace Corps Teaches Livestock Management

  and business techniques to help improve access to food. A portion of the funds for this work will be raised through the Peace Corps Partnership Program (PCPP), an initiative that helps support Peace Corps volunteer community projects worldwide. "There are   from AllAfrica.com Read more »