WorldView | Winter 2021 – Reengaging with the World
The Peace Corps community can and will play a pivotal role. Here are ideas for how to do it right. And reports from the front lines of the pandemic.
Peace in the Time of COVID
An Even More Towering Task
Annotation: “Ask not what your country can do for you …”
You Are Going to Do Something to Defeat It
Pandemic Lessons - The pandemic has driven home some crucial lessons — about science, community, and systems. Voices from the Peace Corps community.
A Matter of Life and Death
On the COVID Floor
A Contribution to Community
More to This Story: The COVID-19 Survival Box from Korea
Peace Corps Connect to the Future
A Community Report on How to Reimagine, Reshape, and Retool the Peace Corps for a Changed World
Unprecedented Times Call for an Unparalleled Response
The question right now for both the United States and the Peace Corps agency isn’t whether to engage the world after coronavirus. We must. The question now is how to do it. This report shows the way, with actionable recommendations for Congress, the Executive Branch and the agency, and the Peace Corps community.
People & Ideas
Meet the 2020 Winners of the Franklin H. Williams Award
We are the messengers of what Peace Corps is and can be
Hostage to History
Eradicating Smallpox in Ethiopia
The Stories We Tell
An Enormous and Panicked Bird
New & Updates
Farewell, Jody Olsen
Carol Spahn Named Acting Director of Peace Corps
Let’s Climb This Hill Together
A Presidential Welcome: El Salvador in 2022
Return to Service Postponed
Volunteers in the House
Budget Victory
A Lasting Tribute
TCP Global Hits $1 Million
Profiles in Courage and Grace - First Black captain of the U.S. Olympic team. First African American to lead the Civil Rights Division at the Department of Justice.
Carrying the Torch: Rafer Johnson
Pioneer in Justice: Drew S. Days III
Letters
Letters Winter 2021: WorldView Readers Write
You can make a difference.
Where We’re Going
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