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

    The female volleyball coaches take part in a friendly game with Americans.

    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.

  2. Sports Envoys in India: Empowering Youth through Baseball and Softball

    Joe Logan assists team members with their fast pitch.

    The State Department’s first-ever joint baseball and softball program sent MLB Hall-of-Famer Barry Larkin and Olympian Natasha Watley to India as Sports Envoys in Febuary 2013.

  3. Virtual Exchange

    Girl Ambassadors for Human Rights (2012) between Villa Grimaldi in Chile, the Sri Lanka Plantation Workers’ Museum in Sri Lanka, the Matilda Joslyn Gage Foundation in Fayetteville, NY, and the International Coalition of Sites of Conscience in New York.

    See photos of Virtual Exchanges in action. Learn more about Virtual Exchanges, Design Thinking and MOOCs from ECA's Collaboratory.

  4. 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.

  5. Empowering Women and Girls: WNBA Basketball Envoys in Ukraine

    The girls basketball team works with Tamika Raymond on drills and skills.

    The State Department and NBA worked together to send former WNBA players Tamika Raymond and Nykesha Sales to Ukraine as Sports Envoys from January 28 to February 2, 2013.

  6. Sports Diplomacy Softball Envoys: A Hit in Nicaragua

    As a member of the State Department’s Council to Empower Women and Girls through Sports, Jessica Mendoza truly engaged in “fieldwork” by leading a softball clinic for teenage girls in Nicaragua.

    Under the Department’s Empowering Women and Girls through Sports Initiative, Olympians Jessica Mendoza and Ruby Rojas went to Nicaragua as sports envoys in February of 2013.

  7. 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.

  8. DanceMotion USA, 2013 Tour

    DanceMotion USA 2013 Cultural Diplomacy tour.

  9. 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.

  10. The Fulbright Experience: Reaching Out to All People with Disabilities

    Still image from The Fulbright Experience: Reaching Out to All People with Disabilities panal.

    Watch the video of The Fulbright Experience: Reaching Out to All People with Disabilities .

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