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Peace Corps at 60: Service changed lives of local volunteers
By RICK DANDES, The (Sunbury) Daily ItemMarch 6, 2021 GMT
SUNBURY, Pa. (AP)
60th anniversary of the Peace Corps: Service changed lives of Valley volunteers
At a time when the Peace Corps has suspended all operations due to the COVID-19 pandemic and recalled 7,300 volunteers from 60 countries a first for the six-decade-old program six former volunteers with Valley connections recall the value of their “life-changing” experiences and praised the virtues of the far-off locations where they served.
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Whether assigned to primitive villages in Africa in the 1980s, emerging democracies in Eastern Europe in the 1990s, or more recently to South America, they all joined the Peace Corps out of a desire to serve their country and to help people in need, using skills they already had or acquired in college.