Southern Oregon Returned Peace Corps Volunteers

How the Peace Corps changed a volunteer’s life

A life changed, a community strengthened. Her legacy endures in every student she taught 🌍📚✨

A group of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers sit in a bright community room at the Jacksonville Library watching the film Liyana on a wall mounted screen. The event took place on Sunday November 9. People sit in rows of chairs facing the screen with natural light coming through the windows.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Liyana screening on Sunday November 9, and to the Jacksonville Library in Jacksonville for allowing us to use the space. Keep checking here for our next event update. 📚✨🌍

Any chance to stretch your self to embrace new experiences it has to broaden your understanding of the world

Well said!

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A vertical poster titled “How Peace Corps Shapes a Life” shows warm orange and gold tones. Five lines of text list the impacts of Peace Corps service. Silhouetted figures stand and face each other across a landscape with trees, hills, and a bright setting sun. The bottom reads “Southern Oregon RPCVs.”

A group of Returned Peace Corps Volunteers sit in a bright community room at the Jacksonville Library watching the film Liyana on a wall mounted screen. The event took place on Sunday November 9. People sit in rows of chairs facing the screen with natural light coming through the windows.

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Liyana screening on Sunday November 9, and to the Jacksonville Library in Jacksonville for allowing us to use the space. Keep checking here for our next event update. 📚✨🌍

Post-Service Training - National Peace Corps Association

Peace Corps Volunteers know training never really ends. This year tested our community in ways we never expected as long standing programs were dismantled. Post Service Training for 2025 is our way to regain strength and move forward together.

Peace Corps Fiji welcomes 100th group of Volunteers

Peace Corps Fiji reaching group 100 feels like a reminder that service still matters. People meeting people. Communities building real change together. At a time when the world drifts toward fear, this kind of work shows how hope is learned through action.

We’d love to see you there! This event is open to everyone — come share an afternoon of storytelling, art, and community connection. 🌍✨

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.

The Peace Corps endures because service builds what politics cannot: trust, empathy, and human connection across borders.

Poster for the animated documentary Liyana. A young girl reads a glowing book as golden light, birds, and a lion rise from its pages. The text reads: “Community Screening of the Animated Documentary LIYANA. Sunday, Nov 9th, Jacksonville Library, 2:30 pm. Refreshments Available.”

🦁📚✨ 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. 🎬🤝🇺🇸

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.

"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."

AmeriCorp VISTAs and Elon alumni make an impact with ‘It Takes A Village Project’ Behind Elon's

Great project! AmeriCorps VISTAs and Elon alumni make an impact with ‘It Takes A Village Project’ #service www.elon.edu/u/news/2025/...

As a RPCV (Returned Peace Corps Volunteer), this breaks my heart... and I'm frightened for the volunteers' safety

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…

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. 🌍

Peace Corps

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.

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...

America turns 250. The Peace Corps turns 65. One built a nation. The other built its conscience. 🌍🇺🇸

Poster for the animated documentary Liyana. A young girl reads a glowing book as golden light, birds, and a lion rise from its pages. The text reads: “Community Screening of the Animated Documentary LIYANA. Sunday, Nov 9th, Jacksonville Library, 2:30 pm. Refreshments Available.”

🦁📚✨ 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. 🎬🤝🇺🇸

Illustration of people helping one another against a backdrop of mountains and pine trees, with bold orange, gold, and navy colors. The text reads “Southern Oregon RPCVs.”

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.

…and a past parade! Does anyone know which year this was?