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Sixty years after President John F. Kennedy established the Peace Corps, the national organization promoting international peace and friendship through service, is celebrating the thousands of volunteers and partner institutions that have made an impact around the world.
Since the establishment of the Peace Corps, Elon University has produced 145 alumni volunteers who have served within a variety of specialties and supported more than 60 host country partners. On March 2, the university will have the opportunity to acknowledge its role in the Peace Corps’ long-standing success during the organization’s week-long 60th-anniversary celebration.
Peace Corps’ 60th Anniversary Marks Beginning of Next Chapter
As the Peace Corps turns 60 this year, it celebrates the more than 240,000 Americans who have volunteered with the agency and also looks toward its future.
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On March 1, 1961, President John F. Kennedy, just beginning his presidency, realized his vision to create an international volunteer organization that would promote world peace and friendship. With his signature on Executive Order 10924, the Peace Corps was born, creating a new opportunity for Americans to help the people of interested countries meet their need for trained men and women.
As the Peace Corps arrives at its 60th anniversary this year, it celebrates the more than 240,000 Americans who have volunteered with the agency in 142 countries, but also looks toward the opportunities and challenges of the next decades. Facing the COVID-19 pandemic, the Peace Corps enacted, for the first time in its history, a global eva