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In celebration of International Education Week, Betsy Engebretson of provides an IREX Russia perspective on the value of studying abroad and the changes she has witnessed working with...

Posted on October 27, 2011 - in Center for Collaborative Technology, Education, Gender, Youth
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Tech Age Girls visit Annandale High School to learn how students there use techn

Three high school age girls from Kyrgyzstan interested in strengthening their own community development projects visited the United States as part of the Global Connections and Exchange Program...

The Youth Theater for Peace (YTP) team is very excited to share some more impact news from the program in Tajikistan!

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BOTA Tuition Assistance

Over the last two years, BOTA’s Tuition Assistance Program (TAP) awarded 649 grants to young people from low-income families worth almost $2 million. This support is vital as tuition costs...

Since August, Reynold Samuel from Trinidad, Ashis Himali from Nepal, and Martin Mwanga from Uganda have been working in Boston at Peace...

Posted on September 29, 2011 - in International Education, Education, Youth
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Ayesha is using the community service skills she honed in the US to help some of the neediest in Pakistan: children with cancer. For the past year, Ayesha worked at the...

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 22, 2011 - Anne Johnson in Conflict Resolution, Gender, Youth
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Faroiz Makhamova

Last year, there were no girls enrolled past the 10th grade at Faroiz Makhamova's high school in Chorku, Tajikistan. This year, there are 20. 

Posted on September 19, 2011 - in Civil Society Strengthening, Education, Youth
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Tova Pertman, Senior Program Officer in IREX’s Education Programs Division, recently returned from the Community Schools Academy in Vadu lui Voda, Moldova, of the...