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Peace Corps Celebrates 59th Birthday During Peace Corps Week
March 03, 2020
WASHINGTON, March 3 -- The Peace Corps issued the following news release on March 1:

From March 1 - 7, 2020, Peace Corps celebrates Peace Corps Week and President John F. Kennedy's establishment of the agency on March 1, 1961. The theme this year is Peace Corps 2020+: Building the Future.

Throughout the week, people across the United States will participate in events that commemorate Peace Corps' 59th birthday and celebrate all the ways the agency makes a diff . . .

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