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YTP participants often address child marriage in community plays

I’ve just returned from a series of meetings in New York. With the UN General Assembly  and the annual Clinton Global Initiative (CGI) conference taking place, the energy in the...

Posted on September 14, 2011 - in International Education, Education
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When middle school students in Asheville, NC, raised funds to support girls’ rights in China, improve water access in Cambodia, and help earthquake victims in Japan, their lives changed as...

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Sixty-four motivated community leaders from 21 countries arrived in the US recently to kick off the 2011 Community Solutions Program. ...

Posted on August 17, 2011 - in International Education, Education
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A group of teachers from Pakistan arrived in the US recently and were welcomed into the Teaching Excellence...

Posted on August 16, 2011 - in International Education, Education
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One hundred American high school teachers from across the country are internationalizing their fall lesson plans after returning from global professional development visits worldwide.

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A dear friend of IREX and distinguished alumna of the International Leaders in Education Program (ILEP),...

I’ve worked on civil society development for almost twenty years now.  So I’ve seen my...

The extraordinary power of youth to change their own worlds and the world around them strikes me anew every day.I see this power manifest in diverse forms and settings – from the Russian...

Forty-three years ago today, IREX was created to help advance exchanges, not just of people, but of ideas. As we celebrate IREX’s founding, we honor its original charge by continuing to...

Posted on June 21, 2011 - in Youth
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IREX and the International Youth Foundation (IYF) are pleased to invite you to the Youth in Development Work Group event. This session will be the third installment of our series of programming...