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  1. International Women of Courage 2021 Opening Ceremony

    2021 Secretary of State’s International Women of Courage (IWOC) Award. This award honors women who have demonstrated exceptional courage, strength, and leadership in acting to improve the lives of others, from families to communities to countries. Next, the IWOC honorees will participate in International Visitor Leadership Program (IVLP) Virtual exchanges to connect with American communities, universities, businesses, non-profit organizations, and others. Now in its fifteenth year and conferred by five Secretaries of State since the inception of IWOC, the U.S. Department of State has honored more than 155 International Women of Courage from over 75 countries.

  2. What is the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA)?

    Photo of the National Mall with the wading pool and Washington Monument in the distance and title graphic on top

    This video describes the Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs.

  3. World Learning: A World Fit for Kids! – Bahrain, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia

    World Learning, through a subaward partnership with A World Fit For Kids! brought coaches and administrators from Bahrain, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia to Los Angeles to learn how to better serve youth and to address health issues, such as obesity.

  4. The Empowerment of Venezuelan Women

    Women Empowered #IVLP

    Peggy Rivas, an International Visitor from Venezuela, tells us why she is a woman empowered.

  5. Young Basketball Players from the Democratic Republic of Congo Visit the U.S.

    DRC basketball visitors experienced an intense clinic in Rockville, MD.

    The U.S. State Department welcomed a group from the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) for the first Sports Visitor program of the new year.

  6. ILEP Video: Visiting the United States and Enhancing Teaching Skills

    Carlos from Brazil says ILEP changed him for the better.

    Why should you go to the United States to enhance your skills as a teacher? The International Leaders in Education Program brings outstanding secondary school teachers from the Near East, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa and the Western Hemisphere to the United States.

  7. Building Bonds with Burma through Basketball

    Burmese teenage girls practice their skills together at a D.C.-area high school.

    Sports Diplomacy tipped off 2013 with the first-ever State Department Burmese sports visitor program.

  8. Basketball Youth Visitors: Indonesia in Action

    The players take part in a games and skills practice with Special Olympic athletes.

    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.

  9. Cross-Cultural Exposure: An Interview with Polly McKinney

    In Kenya, Maasai women networked with eight American women to nurture entrepreneur spirit.

    In September 2008, eight American women traveled to Kenya to develop empowerment networks with Maasai women.

  10. TechWomen Startup Morocco

    Learn about the 2014 TechWomen Delegation trip to Morocco.

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