the Peace Corps

noun

: a U.S. organization that trains and sends people who work without pay to help poor people in other countries

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And Al worked for a time in the Peace Corps in Africa, where soccer is beloved. Lindsay Schnell, New York Times, 28 Apr. 2025 Reagan’s choice to head USAID was M. Peter McPherson, a moderate Republican whose experience in the Peace Corps had warmed him to foreign aid. Time, 12 May 2025 Understanding the Peace Corps In 1961, President John F. Kennedy created the Peace Corps, an independent agency in the federal government, alongside USAID as a way to reinvigorate American diplomacy. Thomas J Nisley, The Conversation, 6 May 2025 The Family Video Don Gayton spent two years serving in the Peace Corps among poor farmers in Colombia. Ruth Fremson, New York Times, 3 May 2025 See All Example Sentences for the Peace Corps

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