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EMPOWER Participants Promote Disability Rights Around the World

EMPOWER participants work together to promote disability rights.
Basketball Youth Visitors: Indonesia in Action

From March 17 to 29, ECA led an action-packed basketball program with 12 Indonesian teenage basketball players—six boys and six girls—and two coaches.
The Fulbright Experience: Reaching Out to All People with Disabilities

Watch the video of The Fulbright Experience: Reaching Out to All People with Disabilities .
Sports Visitors from the Dominican Republic and Venezuela

Organized to coincide with the World Baseball Classics, ECA had a Sports Visitor program for baseball and softball youth coaches from March 1 to 11, 2013.
Sports Diplomacy and Senegal: Empowering Women and Girls through Basketball

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

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.
Bumping Up Efforts to Empower Women and Girls Worldwide: Gulf Nations Volleyball Coaches

Under the State Department’s Empowering Women and Girls through Sports Initiative, the Gulf Nations Volleyball Visitor Program brought 10 female volleyball coaches from Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, and Yemen to the U.S. for activities focused on the development of sports programs for women and girls.
Experience America through a High School Exchange

Every year, the State Department brings almost 2,000 high school students from almost 50 countries to live with an American host family and go to high school for a year.
Lead With Your Heart

Shirley Harrison, Executive Director of the International Visitor Center of Jackson, Mississippi, talks about her experience with IVLP and the importance of people-to-people exchanges.
Russian Volleyball Players Visit the U.S.

The first sports visitor program brought Russian volleyball players and coaches to Southern California for a beach volleyball.