Christine “Chrissy” Palumbo first learned the importance of counterparts during her two-year service in Sierra Leone.

If there is one thing I could tell my friends from home about me that would surprise them the most, it would be that I was on the chess team for all seven years of middle and high school. 

As a Peace Corps Volunteer, you'll likely have the chance to learn a new language during service — and you never know where that will lead you.

Until yesterday we had gone almost a month without a drop of udan.

My gaze fell onto a long table, just like all of the others in Taibesi Market, lined with piles on plates of plump and perky produce: tomatoes, limes, onions, bulbs of garlic, knotted knuckles of ginger…