
** FILE ** A Peace Corps volunteer works with local women in Liberia. About one-third of Peace Corps applicants are selected for service. (Peace Corps)

Maria Shriver, center, speaks as her brothers Tim Shriver, Bobby Shriver, Mark Shriver, Anthony Shriver stand behind her during the wake for their father R. Sargent Shriver at Holy Trinity Catholic Church in Washington on Friday, Jan. 21, 2011. Shriver, an in-law of the Kennedy's, and the first director of the Peace Corps, died Tuesday, he was 95. (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, Pool)

** FILE ** A Peace Corps volunteer works with local women in Liberia. About one-third of Peace Corps applicants are selected for service. (Peace Corps)

In this November 2009 file photo, a Peace Corps volunteer helps a Senegalese man garden.