Press and Multimedia
Recent stories in the media about Peace Corps are indexed chronologically. Select a headline to view the full story. Older stories are available in our media story archive.
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12.10.12
Senegal: Grad brings women’s ed to Senegal“Marquel Sheree Ramirez lives in a village of 300 people. She washes her clothes by hand and hangs them on a line to dry, bathes outside ...
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11.25.12
Empowering Women Katy Todd, a Forestville native, 25, is teaching women in the Togolese town of Dapaong the value of saving that small amount every other ...
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11.17.12
Oldest Peace Corps Volunteer, 83, Teaches Respect – In Any Language (Editor’s Note: Bruce Frankel was interviewed about Volunteering after the age of 50 on “Circles of Change” a radio show on 101.4 FM in ...
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11.01.12
The Peace Corps and SIS – The Partnership Grows Graduate students in our Peace Corps Fellows Program are immersed in projects in D.C. public schools and community organizations. Their classmates in the Master’s ...
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10.16.12
Changing the World: Eight Kilobytes at a Time Eight kilobytes. It’s about the size of the Google icon on its homepage. Minuscule by today’s computing standards, in 1973 it was the ram ...
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10.12.12
Thailand: Feeding the Future Brady Deaton crouched down as his bus passed through the barrier and police were drawing their guns. His ride had just passed through a ...
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10.10.12
Peace Corps Volunteer Improves Youth Center in Paraguay Peace Corps volunteer Sandra Rose Wildermuth of Virginia Beach, Virginia, is working with her community in Paraguay to renovate the local youth center, which ...
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10.10.12
Retired teacher joins Peace Corps A 65-year-old veteran teacher from Milton left for Africa this week for a two-year Peace Corps placement. This is Mary Ladabouche’s first trip outside ...
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10.03.12
United States Peace Corps Leaves Bulgaria Volunteers had a meeting at the US embassy with newly-accredited ambassador Marcie Ries on October 1 2012. The activities of the Peace Corps programmes ...
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09.30.12
Potsdam man returns after spending two years in Africa with Peace Corps POTSDAM – A 25-year-old Potsdam man recently returned from a two-year Peace Corps mission in West Africa, where he educated a small village on ...
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09.25.12
Bulgaria; Chile; Kenya: Peace Corps Becomes a Family Tradition Some things run in families—blue eyes, or dimples, or a streak of stubbornness—they are the physical and sometimes personality traits that make it easy ...
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09.18.12
A ‘Once-in-a-Lifetime Experience’ in Peru It’s been a long, but rewarding two years for Ana Madrid. The Rio Rico native recently came back home after a two-year stint in ...
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09.13.12
Ukraine: Scottsbluff Native to Teach in Ukraine Never shake hands over the threshold of a door. It’s bad luck. That is just one of the many cultural idiosyncrasies Jordan Post will ...