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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My DC who just graduated college is supposed to join the Peace Corps this fall. I'm somewhat nervous about that because I'm wondering how much support she's going to receive from our government - especially if there's an emergency.

Anyone care to comment?[/quote]

DOGE is in the Peace Corps right now. Wouldn’t count on it. Fulbrights are also being axed. Actually, current Fulbrights just stopped getting stipends and were stranded overseas. I mean, if it were my kid, we could pony up thousands and get her out of a thir world country three plane rides away. Many families can’t.

As to the Peace Corp, it won’t happen (and if it does, your kid risks being stranded with no support somewhere unsafe). And I say this very sadly as the parent of a college junior who has wanted Peace Corps for a decade, chose a college partly on Peace Corps Placement, and has been working with her college to prepare for her application process.  Her college is advising her that neither  Fulbright nor Peace Corp (nor several other prominent IR fellowships) are likely to happen and to pivot to grad school or a think tank and see where things are after she gets her masters or has a couple of years of work (that is, in 2028). Realistically, that dream is dead for her. As a mom, amd a Fed watching my own agency be destroyed, it’s painful. But it is. This kid did 5 APs remotely for a full year during COVID and came out stronger. She’s trying very hard to turn lemons into lemonade here. [/quote]

I'm sorry that the Kennedy era ask-not-what-your-country-can-do-for-you dream of America is over and has been replaced with the twin mottos of MAGA: "greed is good" and "own the libs." [/quote]

Agree, hardly the biggest problem these days but still hard to see the kids who want to go do good in the world watch those opportunities evaporate. My kid was notified awhile back she was a semifinalist for Fulbright, no final news yet but she’s assuming it won’t happen and has made an alternative plan. [/quote]

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