Southern Oregon Returned Peace Corps Volunteers
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Returned Peace Corps Volunteers, join us. Reconnect through service, stories, and community. Together we turn global experience into local impact, engaging youth, bridging cultures, and continuing the Peace Corps spirit here at home.
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🦁📚✨ Experience LIYANA — an award-winning animated documentary born from the dreams of children in Eswatini. A story of courage, hope, and imagination. 🌍💫 Join us Sunday, Nov 9 · 2:30 pm · Jacksonville Library. Free community screening with refreshments. 🎬🤝🇺🇸
The Peace Corps endures because service builds what politics cannot: trust, empathy, and human connection across borders.
Peace Corps isn’t just about helping others − it’s a key part of US public diplomacy
The Peace Corps isn’t doing the same foreign policy work the State Department carries out. But it still helps the American brand internationally.
theconversation.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:02 PM
The Peace Corps endures because service builds what politics cannot: trust, empathy, and human connection across borders.
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🦁📚✨ Experience LIYANA — an award-winning animated documentary born from the dreams of children in Eswatini. A story of courage, hope, and imagination. 🌍💫 Join us Sunday, Nov 9 · 2:30 pm · Jacksonville Library. Free community screening with refreshments. 🎬🤝🇺🇸
November 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM
🦁📚✨ Experience LIYANA — an award-winning animated documentary born from the dreams of children in Eswatini. A story of courage, hope, and imagination. 🌍💫 Join us Sunday, Nov 9 · 2:30 pm · Jacksonville Library. Free community screening with refreshments. 🎬🤝🇺🇸
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"The volunteers are still in the field—for now. But the spine is gone. The trainers, the placement officers, the veterans who could see trouble before it came—that architecture is vanishing, one resignation letter at a time."
Defending the Peace Corps When It Needs No Defense
In a nation that no longer knows what to do with humility, service itself has become suspect.
thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com
May 4, 2025 at 3:01 PM
"The volunteers are still in the field—for now. But the spine is gone. The trainers, the placement officers, the veterans who could see trouble before it came—that architecture is vanishing, one resignation letter at a time."
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Great project! AmeriCorps VISTAs and Elon alumni make an impact with ‘It Takes A Village Project’ #service www.elon.edu/u/news/2025/...
AmeriCorp VISTAs and Elon alumni make an impact with ‘It Takes A Village Project’
Behind Elon's
www.elon.edu
November 1, 2025 at 12:13 PM
Great project! AmeriCorps VISTAs and Elon alumni make an impact with ‘It Takes A Village Project’ #service www.elon.edu/u/news/2025/...
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As a RPCV (Returned Peace Corps Volunteer), this breaks my heart... and I'm frightened for the volunteers' safety
"The volunteers are still in the field—for now. But the spine is gone. The trainers, the placement officers, the veterans who could see trouble before it came—that architecture is vanishing, one resignation letter at a time."
Defending the Peace Corps When It Needs No Defense
In a nation that no longer knows what to do with humility, service itself has become suspect.
thelastmilewithusaid.substack.com
May 4, 2025 at 3:32 PM
As a RPCV (Returned Peace Corps Volunteer), this breaks my heart... and I'm frightened for the volunteers' safety
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What if America’s greatest export isn’t money or medicine—but stories? 🎙️
Former diplomat Christopher Wurst hosts SoftPower/FulStories, sharing powerful first-person tales from ambassadors, artists, and changemakers shaping the world through connection. 🌍
Former diplomat Christopher Wurst hosts SoftPower/FulStories, sharing powerful first-person tales from ambassadors, artists, and changemakers shaping the world through connection. 🌍
SoftPower/FulStories
Epic weekly tales from every corner of the globe. Forget politics, academia, or the office, these are "soft, powerful stories" told by those who lived them. Is what…
www.softpowerfulstories.org
November 9, 2025 at 12:39 AM
What if America’s greatest export isn’t money or medicine—but stories? 🎙️
Former diplomat Christopher Wurst hosts SoftPower/FulStories, sharing powerful first-person tales from ambassadors, artists, and changemakers shaping the world through connection. 🌍
Former diplomat Christopher Wurst hosts SoftPower/FulStories, sharing powerful first-person tales from ambassadors, artists, and changemakers shaping the world through connection. 🌍
In a world closing its borders and hearts, the Peace Corps still sends people out to listen, to serve, to learn. It reminds us that America’s strength was never isolation, but the courage to meet the world with open hands.
Peace Corps
www.peacecorps.gov
November 9, 2025 at 3:13 AM
In a world closing its borders and hearts, the Peace Corps still sends people out to listen, to serve, to learn. It reminds us that America’s strength was never isolation, but the courage to meet the world with open hands.
America turns 250. The Peace Corps turns 65. One built a nation. The other built its conscience. 🌍🇺🇸
Recognizing 65 years of the Peace Corps
As our nation prepares to celebrate 250 years since its founding, the nearly quarter-million individuals who served in the Peace Corps are preparing to celebrate a key milestone that was launched 65 y...
www.the-journal.com
November 9, 2025 at 3:11 AM
America turns 250. The Peace Corps turns 65. One built a nation. The other built its conscience. 🌍🇺🇸
🦁📚✨ Experience LIYANA — an award-winning animated documentary born from the dreams of children in Eswatini. A story of courage, hope, and imagination. 🌍💫 Join us Sunday, Nov 9 · 2:30 pm · Jacksonville Library. Free community screening with refreshments. 🎬🤝🇺🇸
November 9, 2025 at 2:56 AM
🦁📚✨ Experience LIYANA — an award-winning animated documentary born from the dreams of children in Eswatini. A story of courage, hope, and imagination. 🌍💫 Join us Sunday, Nov 9 · 2:30 pm · Jacksonville Library. Free community screening with refreshments. 🎬🤝🇺🇸
Are you a former Peace Corps Volunteer living in Southern Oregon? Join the Southern Oregon Returned Peace Corps Volunteers. We meet monthly to build community and keep serving together. DM us if you served abroad and want to keep making a difference. 🤝✨
November 9, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Are you a former Peace Corps Volunteer living in Southern Oregon? Join the Southern Oregon Returned Peace Corps Volunteers. We meet monthly to build community and keep serving together. DM us if you served abroad and want to keep making a difference. 🤝✨
The animated film “Liyana” will be shown Nov 9th at Jacksonville Library. 2:30 pm. It’s 1 hour and 17 minutes.
October 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
The animated film “Liyana” will be shown Nov 9th at Jacksonville Library. 2:30 pm. It’s 1 hour and 17 minutes.
…and a past parade! Does anyone know which year this was?
July 6, 2025 at 7:46 PM
…and a past parade! Does anyone know which year this was?
Southern Oregon Returned Peace Corps Volunteers march in 4th of July parade in Ashland.
July 6, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Southern Oregon Returned Peace Corps Volunteers march in 4th of July parade in Ashland.
Every 4th of July marching for Peace
July 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Every 4th of July marching for Peace
Welcome to the Southern Oregon Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Group. Members have served all over the world. Now we are involved in activities such as hiking, sharing presentations and stories, enjoying potlucks, parades and an upcoming campout! We meet quarterly. We'd love to have you join us.
July 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Welcome to the Southern Oregon Returned Peace Corps Volunteer Group. Members have served all over the world. Now we are involved in activities such as hiking, sharing presentations and stories, enjoying potlucks, parades and an upcoming campout! We meet quarterly. We'd love to have you join us.