Peace Corps' impact endures after 45 years of service FIFTH Edition

Over the years, about 182,000 Peace Corps volunteers have served in 138 countries around the world. Currently, with a budget of $317 million, the Peace Corps supports about 7,800 volunteers in 71 countries, with the typical volunteer serving for two years. Construed quite narrowly as a foreign aid p...

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Published inThe morning call (Allentown, Pa.)
Main Author Edwin J. Kay Special to The Morning Call - Freelance
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Allentown, Pa Tribune Interactive, LLC 01.03.2006
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Summary:Over the years, about 182,000 Peace Corps volunteers have served in 138 countries around the world. Currently, with a budget of $317 million, the Peace Corps supports about 7,800 volunteers in 71 countries, with the typical volunteer serving for two years. Construed quite narrowly as a foreign aid program, Peace Corps is completely free of corruption and remarkably efficient. Our government is spending about $40,000 per volunteer, per year. That $40,000 pays for Peace Corps headquarters in Washington, D.C., for recruiting offices throughout the United Sateas, for field offices in each of the countries served, for transporting the volunteers to and from their host countries, for three months of intensive training in-country (during which the trainers outnumber the volunteers), for medical support for the volunteers, for living allowances in country, and for a resettlement allowance of $6,000 at the end of service.
ISSN:0884-5557