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ILEP Participants

Photo of two ILEP participants

Elkafrawy and Asmaa Saleh, International Leaders in Education Program (ILEP) teachers at Arizona State University, visit the Awakening Seeds School in Phoenix, Arizona for a cultural presentation.

Sports Diplomacy and Senegal: Empowering Women and Girls through Basketball

The Senegalese girls take part in a friendly basketball scrimmage at a D.C.-area gym.

The Empowering Women and Girls through Sports Initiative’s 2013 calendar tipped off with the Senegal Sports Visitor basketball program.

Brazil and Basketball: Athletes from Sao Paulo

The Brazilian visitors work on dribbling by performing one-handed push-ups.

ECA hosted 14 teenage athletes—seven boys and seven girls—and two coaches from Brazil in the U.S. for a basketball exchange from February 6 to 18, 2013.

Basketball and Bilingualism Make for an All Star Exchange

When Marcos Henrique arrived to the U.S. for the Brazil Basketball All Star Sports Visitor Program, he hit the ground running.

Building Bonds with Burma through Basketball

Under Secretary Tara Sonenshine and Burmese Ambassador.

The U.S. Department of State brought 12 Burmese youth—six boys and six girls—and two coaches to the U.S. for a ten-day basketball exchange.

The Christopher Stevens Youth Network

Named to honor the late U.S. Ambassador to Libya Christopher Stevens, The Christopher Stevens Youth Network provides specialized training in digital dialogue and online media sharing, discussions on global issues, and community building to schools in the United States and Middle East and North Africa region.

Creating a More Peaceful World Through Youth and Music Programs

Yakir Englander, a Fulbright-Yitzhak Rabin Scholar, is on a mission for peace.

TechGirls: Lara’s Story

“I have a responsibility to take care of those who are less fortunate and to make a difference in their life,” says Lara Kasbari after completing the four week U.S. State Department TechGirls program.

TechGirls: Fatma’s Story

Before Fatma began her three week TechGirls exchange program in the United States, she had yet to venture outside of her “tiny slice of life in Yemen.”

ECA E-Teacher Program Experiences Significant Growth

In its first year, 2004, the E-Teacher Program offered 104 scholarships, and it has been growing by leaps and bounds since then.

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