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  1. 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.

  2. Sports Diplomacy Celebrates Soccer Diplomacy at the 2014 World Cup

    Sports Diplomacy sponsors soccer programs all over the world that help bring people from different cultures together on the field to share their love of the beautiful game.

  3. We are the Future. We are Fulbright Pakistan.

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    Fulbright participants talk about the Fulbright Pakistan Re-entry and Social Entrepreneurship Seminar.

  4. 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.

  5. Belizean Coaches Train to Foster Social Change through Sport

    As part of ECA’s International Sports Programming Initiative, Northern Illinois University conducted a two-way exchange between participants from the U.S. and Belize geared towards program administrator training, coach training, and consulting youth sports programs in Belize.

  6. Gheorghe Muresan Trains Turkish and American Youth during World Learning Exchange Program

    “You are the leaders of tomorrow and education is your main goal,” Gheorghe Muresan told the over 200 participants at three clinics, organized in Adana and Mersin, Turkey

    During the second part of the exchange, 12 American participants traveled to Turkey where they practiced learning basketball skills and engaging in leadership development and conflict resolution sessions with former NBA player Gheorghe Muresan.

  7. Mars: The Coolest Destination for Exchange Students

    Photo of MOOC class and laptop

    The ECA Collaboratory, in partnership with NASA’s Digital Learning Network™, Google’s Connected Classrooms Program, and the U.S. Embassies in Buenos Aires and Managua, invite educators and students to the Mission Mars: Virtual Field Trip.

  8. USA Track & Field Legend Jackie Joyner-Kersee Made Great Strides in Jerusalem

    Jackie takes a jog and connects with young women on an individual basis

    Under ECA’s Empowering Women and Girls Through Sports Initiative, three-time Olympic gold medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee promoted healthy lifestyles and shared lessons on leadership in Jerusalem for this first-ever State Department track and field envoy program.

  9. GO GIRL Pakistan Empowers Pakistani Girls through Sport by Involving the Whole Family

    Two young players engage in a skills drill at a GO GIRL Pakistan camp

    As the head of GO GIRL Pakistan, Fatima Saleem, a Global Sports Mentoring Program star alumna, funnels her energy into organizing sports clinics and mentoring sessions for Pakinstani girls—ranging from pre-schoolers to adolescents in age and representative of different socioeconomic classes. The key factor to Fatima’s success is engaging the men of the families and, ultimately, whole community in these programs.

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

    The Fortune/U.S. State Department Global Women's Mentoring Partnership connects talented, emerging women leaders from all over the world, with members of Fortune's Most Powerful Women Leaders for a month-long program. Listen to the story of several women from the 2014 program as they share their experiences.

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