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  1. Empowerment and the Soccer Field

    Women Empowered Through Sports

    "Playing sports gives a girl the feeling of empowerment, ...how to become a better, stronger character."

  2. Sports Visitors from the Dominican Republic and Venezuela

    During a time-out, the young coaches receive a history lesson about the World Baseball Classic.

    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.

  3. Sports Grant Provides Disability Skills Training to Coaches in Mexico

    Coaches learning an exercise to use with their athletes

    The National Ability Center, in collaboration with the Departamento de Educación Especial for the State of Quintana Roo, Mexico, and UCP Wheels for Humanity in the United States conducted a multi-phased sports exchange for youth with disabilities with the goal of establishing sustainable sports programs that target youth with physical and developmental disabilities in Mexico.

  4. United We Serve: IVLP Volunteerism Project

    IVLP volunteers pull trash out of creeks in Ward 7 of Washington, D.C.

    Inspired by President Obama's call for renewed commitment to public service, the U.S. Department of State created a new international exchange program "Volunteerism: United We Serve."

  5. Study of the U.S. Institutes Videos

    Around the World in an Afternoon is an event--really a festival--that the State Department puts on for SUSI participants each year.

    Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Academic Programs Meghann Curtis of the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) discusses the Study of the U.S. Institutes' inaugural "Around the World in an Afternoon" event, which took place at the State Department on July 28, 2011.

  6. 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.

  7. I Appreciate Your Kindness

    Laura Dupuy, Executive Director of the Utah Council for Citizen Diplomacy

    Laura Dupuy, Executive Director of the Utah Council for Citizen Diplomacy reflects on one particular participant from a group of international visitors, broadcast journalists from Iraq, and the impact that the experience had on both of their lives.

  8. EMPOWER Participants Promote Disability Rights Around the World

    Front row left to right: Parkhat Yussupjanov (fellow from Kazakhstan), and Fahad Bilal (fellow from Pakistan) in the American Councils DC office during the orientation.

    EMPOWER participants work together to promote disability rights.

  9. Mongolian Leaders Visit U.S. to Learn About Disability Rights

    Group of 7 pose in front of a transit station entrance with title graphic on top

    A delegation of 8 Mongolian disability rights advocates, including the Minister of Population and Development, Members of Parliament, and representatives of civil society, visited the U.S. on a Professional Fellows On-Demand exchange program to learn about the Americans With Disabilities Act.

  10. Learn Russian Next Summer!

    Learn Russian!

    Jessica Gumucio, Senior at Davidson College, studied Russian in Vladimir, Russia in Summer 2015 on a Critical Language Scholarship (CLS).

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