WorldView | Return to Service
Spring-Summer 2022
Return to Service
It’s a hopeful time for the Peace Corps community, as Volunteers return to service overseas — and we’re close to passing the most sweeping Peace Corps legislation in a generation. But as we show in a series of stories from and about Ukraine, it’s a time when the very existence of that nation is being threatened.
Here’s Where Peace Corps Volunteers Have Returned to Service
The Campaign to Pass the Peace Corps Reauthorization Act
A Little Relief: Public Service Loan Forgiveness
BIG PICTURE
Volunteers Arrive in Ghana: 1961 and 2022
Start with the big historic moment, there on the left: August 1961, the first group of Peace Corps Volunteers in Ghana — the first country to welcome Volunteers on the ground. On the right, mark the historic return: July 2022, the first group of Volunteers to return to service in Ghana touch down in Accra. It had been more than two years since all Volunteers were brought home because of COVID-19. The 13 Volunteers arriving here will work alongside partners in junior high schools and schools for the deaf, health centers, and farming communities — also partnering with efforts to provide COVID-19 education and access to vaccinations.
Left: Historical photo courtesy Peace Corps. Right: Current photo courtesy U.S. Embassy Ghana.
Everything Will Be Ukraine
From the Editor: Unfinished Business
Bucha Was Home
Everything Will Be Ukraine!
What We Mean by Friendship
Ukraine Stories
Poetry
“The Peace Corps is one of the most impactful volunteer humanitarian forces in the world, transforming lives and forging international understanding. Its Volunteers represent the best qualities of American society and reflect the diversity of the American people.”
—U.S. Senator Ben Cardin
on June 23, upon introduction of the Peace Corps Reauthorization Act of 2022
in the Senate — legislation which he co-sponsored.
Art & Nature
Andy Warhol’s Cats, a Floating Subway Map, and More NYC Delights
‘A Virtual Explosion of Colors, Textures, and Life’
In Memoriam
Madame Secretary: A Remembrance of Madeleine Albright
The House of Yes: Remembering Paul Farmer
Lifting Every Voice: William Robertson
Letters
Masthead
Meet the Team Behind the Spring-Summer 2022 Edition of WorldView
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