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(6pp) The Peace Corps of the United States has
been doing "business" for over four decades. This
discussion looks at how and where the organization
started, and the progress that it has made, as
well as how it has served its mission in the
process of world growth in underdeveloped nations.
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has served its mission in the process of world growth in underdeveloped nations. JFKs Role According to a Peace Corps Timeline, the initial informal determining process began at the University
of Michigan in fall of 1960. Kennedy included the basic philosophy of the program in his January 1961 inaugural address: "To those people in the huts and
villages of half the globe struggling to break the bonds of mass misery, we pledge our best efforts to help them help themselves..." And so it began.
By March of that year, Executive Order had created the program of "The Peace Corps"; three days later it had its first director, Sargent Shriver. Progression By September of
1961, the legislative mandate for this new organization had been formally created, it was to "promote world peace and friendship." It was to accomplish this goal through 1)
helping people meet their needs for "trained manpower;" 2) promote understanding through service; 3) promotion of understanding, by both parties, through experience. These objectives challenged 750 people to
volunteer and participate in programs in thirteen third world nations. According to John P. Nugent (1962), initial Peace Corp Volunteers did not have a clear picture of what to expect
in their new venture - particularly in Tanganyika. " Living conditions were primitive in the extreme. The country was alive with poisonous snakes, vicious, disease-bearing mosquitoes, and dangerous animals."
The residents of the area observed rituals and beliefs that had never been seen, let alone explained to westerners. An example was a geologist who was speared in the back
of walking on the site of an unmarked tribal burial ground. In hindsight we might laugh at our own unawareness - everyone else in the tribe "knew" where the
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