WorldView | Summer 2021 – An anniversary. A pandemic. Peace Corps Response.
Short-term, high-impact. As the Response program marks a quarter century, Volunteers are serving domestically in the U.S. for the second time ever to battle COVID-19.
President’s Letter: Service, Impact, and the Work Ahead
Why Does Service Matter?
From the Editor: Crisis and Response
Peace Corps at 60
This year we mark six decades since the founding of the Peace Corps — culminating in the global Peace Corps Connect Conference September 23–25. We’ll examine service and impact across the years — and look to the future of what Peace Corps needs to be. The conference is free and open to all. Read more and register.
Big Picture
First Volunteers, 8/28/61
PEACE CORPS RESPONSE: Stories from Across the Decades and Around the World
Peace Corps Response: Snapshots from the First Quarter Century
Teresa Bonner: “Now you know what it’s like to have a sniper.”
Yemi Oshodi: “I understood quickly that I couldn’t do it on my own.”
Hilliard Hicks: Reviving Sustainable Aquaculture in the Philippines
Annie Eng: One month into work in Georgia, I was evacuated.
Public Health Is Global Health
Public Health Is Global Health
Towela Nyika: “We are trying to achieve health for all.”
News and Updates
Recruiting Volunteers for Viet Nam
Time to Connect
Peace Corps Funding: The House Says It’s Time to Invest in More
Virtual Service: Going Big
Have a Seat
People and Ideas
“Peace Corps is Just Like Netflix!”
Metaphors for Thought
Madame Presidents
Humility, Grace, and Dance
The M’s Did It for Her
Unleashing Climate Innovation
#StartSmall and Think Global
China Farewell, Again
A Scholar Who Changed Our Worldview. A Diplomat Committed to Peace and Democracy in the Caribbean.
Remembering Some We’ve Lost: Ambassador Larry L. Palmer
Letters
Letters: Readers respond to the Spring 2021 edition of WorldView
You can make a difference.
Where We’re Going
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