1. Track & Field Athletes from Kenya and Nigeria Participate in Sports Diplomacy

   

   A group of Kenyan and Nigerian athletes participated in a fast-paced track and field exchange.

2. Future Leaders Exchange - Program Details

   The Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) Program provides scholarships for high school students (ages 15-17) from Europe and Eurasia to spend an academic year in the United States, living with a family and attending an American high school.

3. Future Leaders Exchange

   The Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) Program provides scholarships for high school students (ages 15-17) from Europe and Eurasia to spend an academic year in the United States, living with a family and attending an American high school.

4. Empowering Women and Girls through Sports: When Final Four Is Only the Start

   

   On April 6, the first annual UN International Day of Sport for Development and Peace synced with the midpoint of the U.S. Department of State's 2014 NCAA Women’s Final Four Basketball Program, a flagship multi-nation sports visitor program, administered under the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs’ Empowering Women and Girls through Sports Initiative.

5. Food Diplomacy Brings Egyptian Culinary Professional to the Table for a Taste of America

   Through strong, long-term relationships with food, beverage, and equipment companies, Ashraf has generated funds to make the organization ground zero for the exchange of information and services among chefs, and Egypt’s premier source of culinary knowledge and training.

6. Cal Ripken, Jr. Leads International Sports Exchange with Japan

   

   Hall of fame baseball player Cal Ripken, Jr., traveled to Japan on behalf of the Department of State to put on baseball clinics and work with kids affected by the 2011 earthquake and tsunami.

7. Women's Empowerment is Our Priority

   

   Learn more about the programs we offer to connect and empower women around in the world in business, technology, sports, and education.

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   Virtual Sports Visitor Program Connects Coaches and Administrators from Ten Countries

   Last month, the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs’ (ECA) Sports Diplomacy Division hosted a virtual Sports Visitor Program (SVP) with participation from approximately 60 soccer coaches and sports administrators from ten countries.

9. What Happens if You Choose to Empower a Woman?

   

   Listen to the story of several women from the 2014 Fortune / U.S. State Department Global Women’s Mentoring Partnership. The program connects talented, emerging women leaders from all over the world, with members of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Leaders.

10. First U.S.-Japan Sports Exchange

    

    The first U.S.-Japan Sports Exchange.

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