Join the global celebration of Peace Corps service!

Peace Corps Week celebrates how Peace Corps Volunteers make a difference in host countries around the world and in the United States, commemorating the date President John F. Kennedy signed the executive order to establish the Peace Corps—March 1, 1961.

Don’t miss your chance to support world peace and friendship by furthering the Peace Corps Third Goal of helping promote a better understanding of other peoples on the part of Americans! Learn more @ www.peacecorps.gov/pcweek

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To commemorate the 51st anniversary of President John F. Kennedy’s establishment of the Peace Corps, the organization is holding its annual Peace Corps Week through March 3.

This stamp was issued in 1999 as part of the Celebrate the Century series.