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World Learning’s Global UGRAD April 2017 Newsletter

The Global Undergraduate Exchange Program (UGRAD) Team at World Learning publishes a monthly newsletter for UGRAD alumni. View an excerpt from this month’s newsletter.

UGRAD Alumna Initiates Family Festival at Azerbaijan Carpet Museum

Global UGRAD alumna Asli Samadova curated the the Azerbaijan Carpet Museum's first two-day family festival that hosted over one thousand people who participated in activities ranging from Children’s Museum features to presentations of recent textile and art projects.

World Learning’s Global UGRAD December 2015 Newsletter

World Learning's Global UGRAD team is "looking forward to the holiday break, not only for the time it allows for each of us to reflect on the good in the world, but also because there are about 220 Global UGRAD arrivals on the other side of the break in January," according to the latest newsletter.

Two Exchange Alumni Receive Advancing Leaders Fellowships

World Learning awards IVLP alumna Omkolthoum Abdel Mogheith and Global UGrad alumnus Ping Ann Oung with a grant of up to $5,000 to implement a social innovation project in their community.

UGrad Alumnus Creating a Tolerant Society through Global Engagement

With the help of a $5,000 USD grant from the Pakistan-U.S Alumni Network, Global UGrad Alumnus Syed Zia Hussain Shah started Aghaaz-e-Ravvish, a project that aims to be the first low-cost tech-based distance learning program in Pakistan.

The Dynamic Duo from Ukraine

Building from skills developed during their Global UGRAD exchanges, Viktoriya Luchka and Viktoriia Shvydchenko became the first Ukrainian Youth Delegates appointed by their government to the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly.

Shaping the Future of Education in Azerbaijan

Sevinj Mammadova, an alumna of the Global Undergraduate Exchange Program (Global UGRAD) and Edward S. Muskie Fellowship Program (Muskie) from Azerbaijan, is the February International Exchange Alumni Member of the Month.

UGRAD Alum Organizes Charity Run Across Ukraine

Ugrad Alum, Andriy Maksymovych, raised over $50,000 in donations for premature infants in Ukraine

While studying in the United States, Eurasian Undergraduate Exchange Program (UGRAD) alum Andriy Maksymovych met an activist who biked across the U.S. to raise money for charity. Andriy decided to adapt the idea to raise money for premature babies in his native Ukraine.

Uncharted Waters

Global Undergraduate Exchange Program participant, Beatriz Recinos, teaching students about oceanography

Beatriz Recinos, an undergraduate student from El Salvador, studied oceanography and geophysics at Humboldt State University in Northern California while participating in the Global Undergraduate Exchange Program.

A New Path to Corporate Social Responsibility

Since returning to Georgia, Lia has applied her expertise in CSR in working with Ardza, a division of Georgia’s prominent Alliance Group Holding company.