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June 22, 2012
 Among the nearly fifty recipients of the CAPS award over the last five years, Omurbek Ibraev of Kyrgyzstan stands out as an innovative leader promoting effective use of technology in the public sector. In his work at Kyrgyzstan’s National Statistics Committee (NSC), Ibraev is coordinating a country-wide effort to promote open access to information through the digitization of local government statistics. |
June 19, 2012
 At the start of the Rio+20 Summit, an IREX alumnus offers his views of the Summit and realities for green economic growth in Egypt. Mostafa Hussein is co-founder of SOLAR C3ITIES and an advocate for affordable, sustainable energy alternatives in Cairo. He is an alumnus of the 2011 Community Solutions Program. During his four month fellowship in the US, Hussein worked at the Institute for Market Transformation, where he learned about alternative energy cooperative models and market solutions for creating consumer demand for sustainable energy alternatives. |
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June 18, 2012
 Even in this day and age, in a country as developed as Romania, misinformation about HIV/AIDS continues to exist in the rural areas. A group of Roma and non-Roma youth took it upon themselves to shed light on the issue for their peers. Roma and non-Roma youth, aged 14-18, organized a training on the social and biological aspects of the disease for other youth in their school in a new series of workshops on community issues. |
June 18, 2012
 “Strangers used to scare me, and it usually took quite awhile before I would talk to new people,” explains Jarkynay Yrysbek kyzy, a high school student from Tokmok, Kyrgyzstan, a city that experienced violent ethnic clashes during the country’s 2010 coup. “But a year has passed since I joined YTP,” she notes, “and I can hardly recognize myself!” |
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June 13, 2012
 Hennadiy Serheyev and his crew at TV Chernivitsi have come a long way to become one of the premiere news resources in their city, thanks to a partnership with WFIE in Indiana. It's just one of 28 similar partnerships that grew out of an effort to strengthen Ukraine's media sector. |
June 12, 2012
 The Bus has officially arrived in Liberia, and it's going to need more seats. What started out in February as a small voter-registration initiative with 20 volunteers has exploded into a network now approaching 300. |
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June 4, 2012
 Saidahmad Ikromov defies the stereotype of the sober law student buried under a mound of case law books. He has stepped outside the classroom to link academia to real world practice in order to serve the community surrounding the University of the Pacific’s McGeorge School of Law in Sacramento. Ikromov has contributed more than 50 hours of free legal assistance to lower income, unemployed, and underprivileged individuals at community Citizenship Fairs in the fall and spring and at the McGeorge School of Law’s Elder Law Clinic. |
June 4, 2012
 A domestic abuse helpline in Kazakhstan extends free counseling and advice to about 15,000 youth throughout Almaty and Astana, thanks to a recent grant from the BOTA Foundation. |
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June 4, 2012
 In honor of World Environment Day, IREX is pleased to share the stories of two Pakistani students' grassroots work to clean up their community. |
May 25, 2012
 After a semester of intensive professional development at four U.S. universities, class was over for the 63 teachers from around the world who participated in the International Leaders in Education Program (ILEP). As they gathered in Washington, D.C. last week during the final event of the program, it was clear that they were now more than master educators: they had become teacher-leaders, ready to share their expertise with hundreds of colleagues across the world. |
