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Celebrate International Education Week

Visitors from Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela traveled to Cincinnati as part of a three-week program on NGOs and civic activism in the United States. Luz Esneda Murillo Quinto from Colombia (left) and Delmi Carolina Jimenez from Honduras (right) read to a young student at Su Casa in Cincinnati, Ohio while on the International Visitor Leadership Program ''NGO and Civic Activism.''

During IEW 2008, the Burmese alumni association Myanmar-United States Friendship Exchange (MUSFEX) held a speaker program in partnership with the U.S. Embassy at the American Center in Rangoon. The event, themed ''International Education: Fostering Global Responsibility and Leadership,'' drew alumni, local NGO staff, reporters, students, teachers, and private educational foundations to learn about the U.S. educational system.

Exchange program alumni gathered at the Vladivostok American Corner to meet U.S. Ambassador Beyrle and his wife to kick-off a week of IEW events throughout Russia in 2008. Alumni, such as the FLEX alumna pictured here, and U.S. embassy and consulate representatives discussed the value of international exchanges, personal exchange program memories, the future of exchanges and Russian-American relations.

A ''class photo'' of Costa Rican Fulbright program alumni from the 1980s taken at a 2008 IEW celebration in Costa Rica. Over 150 Fulbright alumni participated in the annual reception at Ambassador Cianchette’s residence. The event included a call to action for the local Fulbright Alumni Association on behalf of the young people in Costa Rica, who do not enjoy the educational access and advantages that are the hallmark of the Fulbright program.

Brazilian visitor Mr. Alex Pereira Barboza, rapper, writer and co-founder of the Central Unica das Favelas (The Single Union of Shantytowns) NGO, visited the Knowledge Is Power Program (KIPP) in Houston as part of his two-week program on mutual understanding and social tolerance through the arts. KIPP Academy is an academically rigorous, college preparatory, public school for at-risk students in grades five through nine. Mr. Barboza and the students discussed his work with the youth population in the ''favelas'' of Brazil, and the power of his music in bringing social change.

International Education Week 2009 Myanmar-United States Friendship Exchange (MUSFEX) The American Center in Rangoon American Corners in Russia Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) Program The Fulbright Program International Visitor Leadership Program IVLP Individual Project Alex Pereira Barboza a.k.a. MV Bill