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UPCOMING EVENTS - 2024

  • September 14- October 14 - YSEALI (Young Southeast Asia Leadership Initiative) | Fellowships taking place September 16-October 11 | Departure October 14 | Staying with a Host family

  • September 21- October 18 -- YTILI (Young Transatlantic Innovation Leaders Initiative)      Fellowship Program Fall | Three staying in a hotel, Fellowships taking place September 23-October 18, Departure October 21, All Entrepreneurs

  • U.S. Ukraine October 25-November 2; Recovery through Youth Participation; Staying with home hosts

  • November 8-16 -- Open World (Congressional Office of International Leadership) Hungarian Parliament in November 2024  |   Staying with home stay families

  • November 13-19 Multi-regional participants International Visitor Leadership Program for 10 participants for Education in the Digital Age.
     

PAST EVENTS 

  • Impact of Exchange in March 13-April 11, 2024

  • YSEALI (Spring) | Arrived April 27
    Fellowship took place April 29-May 24 | Entrepreneurship | Stayed with volunteer host families | Departed Memorial day | 2 Fellows

  • Eurasia Professional Fellows Program (EURPFP) Spring | Arrived May 10 |
    Fellowship May 13-June 7 | Departed June 10 | Home stays | 2 Fellows

  • July 19-31 Pan African Youth Leadership Program (PAYLP) 16 Youths and 4 mentors | Stayed with home hosts for part of their stay and then the Firehouse Hostel for the remainder of their stay

  • August 20-26 German Parliament 

  • September 22 International Peek  | 2 day symposium in Newport, Arkansas

  • October 21 - 29, Mental Health - Poland, Sponsored by Open World | Home stays

  • November 7 - 14, Members of Parliament - Azerbaijan | Open World

Programs We Host
 

 YSEALI : Young Southeast Asian Leadership Initiative

YSEALI/PFP is a U.S. Department of State initiative. This too is a month-long homestay within the community in a family home.  This individual works with businesses or other mentors for one month. It is, in effect, an immersion in entrepreneurship.  It is focused on business, agriculture, and more.  There is a reciprocal exchange with the mentor if the project developed is chosen.

Several of our Fellowship hosts have been chosen as a reciprocal programming recipient.  This means they were able to travel to their Fellow’s country to help set up a special project developed while in Arkansas.

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  • Little Rock Workforce Investment Board Executive Director, W J Monagle was hosted in Azerbaijan where he participated in a two-week reverse exchange. Mr. Monagle mentored the completion of a program which he and his Azerbaijani counterpart,

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Seymur Valiyev, devised in Little Rock. The project was one of 40 selected out of 250 participants.

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  • Little Rock Urban Farms Owner, Chris Hiryak, traveled to Malaysia to speak and train with his counterpart Alisha NG Koh Chang.

  • Chris Jones of Arkansas Innovation Hub traveled to Brunei to work with Fisha Rashid in the Spring of 2019.

  • Mi Mi San Pedro from the Venture Center traveled to Vietnam in the Fall of 2019 to work with Xuan Thanh.

  • Terri Thomas of City Year  traveled to Myanmar to work with Kyu Kyu Mar

  • Kennard Williams of USDA will travel to the Philippines to work with Vina Orolfo.

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Open World: Ukraine Visits Little Rock

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02/11/2022-02/19/2022

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