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Youth discuss a center that would bring Roma and non-Roma youth together.

As Eastern Romania is currently digging out of the snow, youth in Ivesti are keeping warm and busy building a center at their school in which students can work across ethnic lines to promote...

IREX's Make a Better World Photo Contest

IREX is pleased to announce the launch of our first ever public, professionally juried photo contest! The contest seeks for photographs of individuals and scenes representing the IREX tagline, “...

Posted on February 28, 2012 - in Civil Society Strengthening, Youth
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Eddie Jarwolo works to increase accountability in Liberian government.
After witnessing "The Bus Project" in Oregon, a Liberian returned home to increase youth political participation and government accountability.
Tech Age Teens is funded by a private donor.

As today is International Corporate Philanthropy Day, we salute private-sector partnerships that seek to make a better world. IREX's work is supported by a mix of funding from government agencies...

Posted on February 24, 2012 - in Civil Society Strengthening, Youth
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Yemen protesters gather in training and information tents during the historic p

In response to a request from protesters on the ground in Yemen, the Justice and Dignity program quickly set up training and information tents at activity hotbeds in Ta'az, Aden and Sana'a's "...

Iraqi journalists

“Journalism is not about what journalists want to say, it’s about what citizens have a right to know and now technology makes that possible,” Dr Hamdan Al Salim noted after one of IREX’s workshops...

Posted on February 1, 2012 - in Conflict Resolution, International Education, Education, Youth
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Children enjoy a Youth Theater for Peace performance by local community members

With the support of USAID, IREX is pleased to release the full results of the final evaluation of the Youth Theater for Peace Program...

Posted on January 31, 2012 - in Civil Society Strengthening, Youth
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Children with Deaf Parents

There are limited services to protect and support the hearing impaired community in Kazakhstan. Once individuals complete schooling, few government resources exist to help them function...

Kazakh Student Thrives on Educational Opportunity

Dinara Shakmetova grew up in a small remote village in Kazakhstan with her single mother and four siblings. With limited economic resources, Dinara would often knit clothing items to sell as a way...

This is the moment each year when we celebrate, when we remember all that has been achieved and all the people whose lives we’ve shared over the past year. We look back on what we’ve...