Sep. 18—SANTA FE — There's a street in the town of San Juan Bosco, Ecuador, called Jaime Agett Calle. It's named in honor of Jim Agett, a New York state native who served as a Peace Corps volunteer in ...

Join the Peace Corps and see the world! Or at least one small part of it, and get to know it very, very well. Sam Izzo, of Lewisburg, is just beginning a two-year assignment teaching English to both ...

SAGINAW, MI — Jessica Fehrman has some packing to do. By month’s end, the 26-year-old Saginaw woman will count herself among the first Peace Corps volunteers to serve overseas since the onset of the ...

Shay Priester has had a passion for helping others since she was a teenager. Priester, a Jackson native, graduated from Southeast Missouri State University in 2010 with bachelor's degrees in ...

I'm sorry I missed the recent reunion of Ecuador volunteers in Santa Fe, which was featured in the Sept. 18 Sunday Journal. I would have liked to share my story with other former volunteers. I was a ...

VALPARAISO | Life in Ecuador as a Peace Corps volunteer was fairly peaceful for Valparaiso resident Grace Lacy until the recent strike by the nation's police, which led to a couple of days of looting ...

Bradley Mattan, 22, of Geneseo, has been accepted into the Peace Corps and left for Ecuador June 18 to begin pre-service training as an urban youth development Peace Corps Volunteer. Upon graduation ...

PHOENIX — Brenna Wojtysiak, a Gilbert resident, is among the first Peace Corps volunteers headed to serve an overseas community since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Peace Corps evacuated ...

My name is Mark Preston, and I am a Peace Corps health volunteer presently living and serving in Guamote, Ecuador. Having just graduated from St. Michael's College in northern Vermont and with a ...

Craig Adams, 56, and Lucy Altemus, 55, of Glenwood City, have been accepted into the Peace Corps. Adams and Altemus will be departed for Ecuador on Feb. 4 to begin pre-service training as agriculture ...