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  1. Executive Agency
  2. Created: 1961
  3. Title of Chief Officer: director
  4. Functions: promotes world peace and friendship; provides trained volunteers to help meet the basic needs of communities worldwide in the areas of education, agriculture, health, small-business development, urban development, and the environment; operates primarily in foreign countries but also has some domestic activities