Kathmandu, March 28: Fifty-one peace corps volunteers were sworn in by Chargé d’Affaires in the US Embassy, Scott Urbom, and the Peace Corps/Nepal country director Troy Kofroth to begin their two-year service in Nepal.The new volunteers are the 211th group of American volunteers to come to Nepal and join the more than 4,000 peace corps volunteers who have served in Nepal since 1962 when the governments of Nepal and the United States of America signed an agreement to establish the peace corps program here.
“President Kennedy said at the program’s founding in 1961 that “[t]he responsibility for peace is the responsibility of our entire society.” It was true then and remains true now – that Volunteers are passionate about the mission to create lasting bonds with their adopted host communities in the effort to promote peace and to generate greater interest from all Americans to seek peace,” said Chargé d’Affaires Urbom.
The fifty-one peace corps volunteers arrived in January 2026 and underwent 9 weeks of intensive language, cross-cultural and technical training in Kavre District in preparation for their service. The volunteers have been assigned to ten districts in Gandaki, Bagmati, and Lumbini provinces to teach English in government schools, to work alongside farmers on food security and nutrition projects, and to support community environmental and forestry initiatives in coordination with the Ministries of Education, Science and Technology; Forests and Environment; and Agriculture and Livestock Development. With this new group, there are ninety-nine peace corps volunteers serving in eleven districts of Nepal.
People’s News Monitoring Service.
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