Ecuador - 2005

Join us for our first ever Google Hangout! 

You can ask questions ahead of time on Twitter by using the hashtag #ImpactWorld or by addressing questions to @PeaceCorps, @TheCorpsNetwork or @the_SCA

To watch the live broadcast please stay tuned on the 4th to our social media sites or send an email with your name, town, and state to nationalservice@peacecorps.gov and
we will send you a link prior to the start of the event. 

On this day in 1961, Peace Corps was formally authorized by Congress with passage of the Peace Corps Act.

Photo credit: Abbie Rowe, White House Photographs John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston

Liberia - 2009

This is how I remember September 11th. 

I went on a school field trip with my teachers and students to the ruins of Old Leon, Nicaragua. After the field trip I was exhausted and hungry. I wanted to get home and make tuna casserole. However, my neighbors were adamant that I watch the news on their television. I acquiesced and found them watching a movie. I kept watching and watching, waiting for the credits to roll across the screen. They kept saying that this was real and happening in real life, that this was no movie, that this was a great tragedy in my country and for the world.

After we understood what was going on, my teachers and friends came to my house to check on me and my family in the States. I had not felt so much love and concern before that moment.

 For me, this picture evokes those memories of concern, love, and friendship. I like to remember September 11th as this picture.

- Peace Corps Volunteer R Diehl

Mupundus, a Zambian Bush fruit that tastes of plums

- Peace Corps Education Volunteer Carrie Pavlik