Human fragility has the power to make us more lucid about what endures and what passes, what brings life and what kills,” ...

Learn more. On March 1, 1961, President Kennedy launched a bold experiment: the Peace Corps. Since its founding, nearly 250,000 U.S. citizens, including 2,000 from the state of Maine, have served ...

Since the Peace Corps was established in 1961, over 240,000 Americans have served in 144 countries. Currently, about 3,300 volunteers (less than half the 7,000 serving prior to the pandemic ...