222 Results Are Tagged With "Western Hemisphere"
Expanding Resources for Girls [A TechGirl Video Portrait]
Tala Sallam, a 2014 TechGirl participant from Jordan, is expanding resources for women and girls in her home community.
Getting Down To Business in Tunisia
After participating in a 2012 International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) focused on entrepreneurship and women’s issues, Leila helped establish a partnership between the Tunis Business School, where she teaches, and the World Trade Organization Chairs Programme (WCP), where she is a newly-minted Chair.
BFTF: Best Friends Together Forever
Following his exchange, Daniel helped found the Youth Ambassadors Summer Institute (YASI), a week-long program that brings together young adults and trains them to become politically active citizens and build relationships among European countries.
Partners of the Americas (POA)
Western Hemisphere›BrazilWe invite everyone from the state of S?o Paulo, from all areas and professions, to join the Partners of the Americas, an entity created by John Kennedy in 1960, based on Washington D.C. This entity creates connections between sister-states between the United States and Brazil, in which S?o Paulo and Illinois are sister-states. The S?o Paulo Committee holds a monthly meeting between it's members.
Join the Partners of the Americas, who stimulates exchanges between the two states in several areas: culture, youth development, environment/sustainability, architecture and many more. Contact us via the e-mail ciro@equalizaambiental.com.br with the subject "Partners of the Americas".
American Alumni Offer Warm Boston Welcome to International Visitors
More than a dozen American alumni of U.S. government-sponsored international exchange programs greeted a group of visitors from the Middle East and North Africa on the last stop of their International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP).
Feeding Tanzania and Growing the East African Agricultural Sector
As CEO of the Tanzania Horticultural Association, 2012 YALI Alumna Jacqueline Mkindi works to help increase farmers’ incomes, improve food security, boost nutrition, and to grow agricultural industry to create thousands of new pre- and post-harvest jobs.
Alumna Mentors and Finances Other Women Business Leaders in the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) Alumna Patricia Nzolantima returned home after her exchange and started a micro finance program to help local entrepreneurs start medical supply stores.
In Zambia, Inspired by YALI to Promote Peace and Youth
2010 YALI alumnus Mundia Paul Hakoola currently serves as the Secretary General and a Co-founder of the Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) in Zambia. This initiative is inspired by the YALI program and seeks to provide leadership opportunities to young Zambians.