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May 18, 2005
Students and soldiers playing basketball.

On April 22, Uzbekistani students and teachers participating in School Connectivity for Uzbekistan had a unique opportunity to meet and interact with American soldiers based in the Karshi region.

April 25, 2005
by Amy Hirschauer

IREX celebrates and supports UNESCO's Education for All Week, April 24-30 2005. IREX will host a series of forums this week on basic education accessibility and equality across Armenia and Central Asia.

March 24, 2005
Gulkhotun Davlatmamadova sews a mattress

In an attempt to address the enormous problem of unemployment in the Khorog and Shugnan regions of Tajikistan, the nongovernmental organization (NGO) Chamanoro developed and implemented a project to teach impoverished women to produce national handicrafts.

March 22, 2005
by Aimee Hutton and Christine Fetzko

Last month, US Ambassador to Tajikistan Richard Hoagland participated in a virtual press conference entitled, “US Foreign Policy during the Second Bush Administration,” organized by IREX through the Internet Access and Training Program (IATP).

January 6, 2005
by Natalia Cernat
Meeting participants in Telenesti

IREX recently launched its USAID-funded Moldova Citizen Participation Program (CPP) with a powerful outreach and assessment campaign, reaching diverse populations in all regions of the Republic of Moldova.

December 15, 2004

President Bush and National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, recently nominated to be secretary of state, on Friday met with 21 Russian and five American volunteers at the White House and praised the US-Russia Volunteer Initiative (USRVI), a new program providing exchanges of volunteers between the United States and Russia.

December 9, 2004
by Michael Clarke
Conference participants

IREX recently organized and hosted a State Department Middle East Partnership Initiative and USAID-funded workshop, “Strategies for Sustainable Media Development for the Middle East and North Africa,” in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates (UAE).

December 1, 2004
Lyudmyla Melnyk, established the Cherkasy Center of Drug Addiction and HIV/AIDS

Annually around December 1, IREX mobilizes its broad array of programs and its overseas presence to focus on HIV/AIDS.

December 1, 2004
 Contemporary Issues Program fellows visit Washington's Whitman-Walker HIV/AIDS

In observance of World AIDS Day, December 1, the IREX community shares its commitment and its vision—through World AIDS Day special activities as well as new and reinvigorated year-round initiatives—to combating HIV/AIDS.

October 26, 2004
by Jennifer Kinniff

IREX recently brought together participants in the Southeastern European Communities Against Trafficking (SECAT) program for a September 29-October 1 workshop in Skopje, Macedonia, where they shared lessons learned during their anti-trafficking projects and discussed strategies for ongoing collaboration in the anti-trafficking community.