My Family’s Story – 20 Years of FLEX
Khamza Iyldyz ’17 (Jonesville, MI/ Astana, Kazakhstan) and his mother Leyla Malaeva ‘97 (Beavercreek, OH/ Ust-Kamenogorsk, Kazakhstan)
I am honored to share my FLEX...
The First Cohort of Polish FLEX Alumni Off to a Great Start!
Have you ever wondered how the FLEX Alumni program started in your country, or how the first group of participants managed to create the...
Decade Apart: Two Generations of FLEX Alumni at ACCESS Summer Camp
Svitlana Buko’97
Sevastopol, Ukraine/Riverside, CA
svitlana buko gmail com
Two generations of FLEX alumni (FLEX 97 and FLEX 2007) came together for a Leadership...
17 Years…
Gulbahor Nematova '95
Kuybirshev, Tajikistan/ Altus, OK
17 years is half of my life. If I were born 17 years ago, today I’d have just graduated from...
Welcome Home!
Andrey Yakovlev ‘95
St. Petersburg, Russia/Warrenton, VA
andrew_yakovlev yahoo com
It has been 15 years since I returned from the FLEX program. Since then I...
Helping Senior Citizens in Warsaw During COVID-19
In March 2020, when the COVID-19 outbreak began to effect Warsaw, FLEX alumnus Jakub Dzik ‘19 (Warsaw, Poland/Scio, NY) wanted to help out his...
Let’s Do Irkutsk Eco-Logical
Kseniya Geevskaya (Kalinina) ‘99
Irkutsk, Russia/Russia, OH
Three active men of the city of Irkutsk, Russia succeeded in motivating community members, the local government, and local...
FLEX Gave My Life A Right Direction
My exchange year in USA through FLEX has been a real dream come true, from the start till the very end. I am sure...
The Bridge And The Road
It was 1993 - a year after the Civil War in Tajikistan has commenced and four years before it came to an end. The Civil...
FLEX Alumnus Assists Oscar-Nominated Film Crew
Dmitry Dudanov '09
Petrozavodsk, Russia/Austin, MN
The 85th Academy Awards will be broadcast live from the United States this Sunday, February 24. Joe Wright's film Anna...