Peace Corps

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ourpresidents: It’s Peace Corps Week Peace Corps Week commemorates the date President John F. Kennedy signed the executive order to establish the Peace Corps, March 1, 1961. Learn more about the Peace Corps and the Volunteers who are making a different in host countries around the world here.Pictured: President Kennedy hands the pen used to sign the Peace Corps Act to his brother-in-law, R. Sargent Shriver, who he had designated as the Corps founding Director. -JFK and the Peace Corps from the JFK Library

ourpresidents:

It’s Peace Corps Week

Peace Corps Week commemorates the date President John F. Kennedy signed the executive order to establish the Peace Corps, March 1, 1961.

Learn more about the Peace Corps and the Volunteers who are making a different in host countries around the world here.


Pictured: President Kennedy hands the pen used to sign the Peace Corps Act to his brother-in-law, R. Sargent Shriver, who he had designated as the Corps founding Director.

-JFK and the Peace Corps from the JFK Library

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