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Building a Youth Center, Building Tolerance March 2, 2012 by Ana-Maria Sinitean 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 intercultural tolerance between Roma and non-Roma students.	IREX’s Make a Better World Photo Contest Begins! March 1, 2012 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, “Make a Better World” around the world in one or more of IREX’s seven focus areas: Civil Society, Conflict Resolution, Education, Gender, Media, Technology for Development, and Youth.
Liberian Bus Project Aims to Drive Votes, Change and Leaders February 28, 2012 After witnessing "The Bus Project" in Oregon, a Liberian returned home to increase youth political participation and government accountability.	Productive Partnerships: Nonprofits, For-Profits, and International Corporate Philanthropy Day February 27, 2012 by Randal Mason 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, private foundations, and individual donors. Corporate philanthropy also plays an important role in IREX's programming, especially in such areas as education, technology and media development.
Yemen Youth Prepare to Take a Greater Role in Country's Future February 24, 2012 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 "Change Square." They helped young protesters develop strategies and action plans to reassert their role in the political process.	Training the Next Generation of Iraqi Journalists February 17, 2012 by Yahya al-Bayati “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 for journalism professors in Iraq on “How to Teach Media.”
Youth Transformed: Final Evaluation of Youth Theater for Peace Released February 1, 2012 With the support of USAID, IREX is pleased to release the full results of the final evaluation of the Youth Theater for Peace Program in Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan.	Integrating the Deaf Community in Kazakhstan January 31, 2012 by Jason Vuong Do 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 independently alongside other citizens.
Low-Income Student Thrives on Educational Opportunity January 19, 2012 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 of making extra money for the family in addition to her studies and household chores.	Celebrations and Challenges December 21, 2011 by W. Robert Pearson 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 learned, and we also look forward to the new year and all that it will bring. One year merges seamlessly into the next, and thus we start again. What we’ve accomplished becomes the energy for what we dream still to do.