Peace Corps Turns 60 features
Published: March 1, 2021 Featured Content This year’s theme, “60 Years of Service,” celebrates all the ways that Peace Corps makes a difference at home and abroad President Kennedy established the Peace Corps 60 years ago on March 1, 1961, to assist developing countries. "Nothing carries the spirit of American idealism and expresses our hopes better and more effectively to the far corners of the earth than the Peace Corps."