Santa Barbara Peace Corps Association -- SBPCA

Santa Barbara Peace Corps Association

Serving the Community and Peace Corps Volunteers around the world

	Welcome! The Santa Barbara Peace Corps Association (SBPCA) is a network of returned Peace Corps Volunteers living in the Santa Barbara area whose purpose is to promote: - understanding toward the diverse ethnic and culture groups around the world - self-help among developing nations within a sound environmental framework - projects for international peace and protection of human rights - Peace Corps ideals and fellowship for our members		"A new generation of Americans has taken over this country...working for freedom as servants of peace around the world." John F. Kennedy, 1960
	MSNBC on Obama & the Peace Corps President Obama talked big about the Peace Corps during the campaign, but can he deliver now that he is in office?
	Peace Corps Journals is online! Follow current Volunteers in real time from all over the world as they blog about their country of service.
	Watch Peace Corps experiences from around the globe:		"I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at a post in Germany than it will be with us." Robert Sargent Shriver


	Peace Corps beginnings... Kennedy asking University of Michigan students to dedicate two years of their lives speech Kennedy press conference on signing EO#10924 establishing the Peace Corps speech Kennedy speaking to the very first group of Peace Corps Volunteers (Ghana) speech

Website created by Karlos Benavides, Barbara Hodgdon and Robert Stevens

Santa Barbara Peace Corps Association
P.O. Box 91406
Santa Barbara, CA 93190