Going Digital: Alumni in Ukraine Find New Ways to Promote FLEX

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In a year bustling with virtual events, alumni in Ukraine have learned to get creative with their methods of FLEX program promotion. Alumni have...

Diana Kimak ’20: Part of a New Generation of Ukrainian Entrepreneurs

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Diana Kimak ’20 (Chernivtsi, Ukraine/Neenah, WI) is only 18 years old, but she is already a communication manager at Donmo, Ukraine’s first platform for...

Interview with “English to the East” Project Organizer Anna Devyatko ’14

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Krystyna Senchenko ’14 (Lviv, Ukraine/Oakley, ID) interviews Anna Devyatko ’14 (Lviv, Ukraine/Lake in the Hills, IL) about her project “English to the East”. Anna...

FLEX Alumni Online: Best Practices for Organizing Virtual Events

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During the COVID-19 pandemic FLEX alumni events have been moved online to be in compliance with local government regulations. This has pushed alumni to...

Overcoming the Challenges of COVID-19: The FLEX Alumni Community in Eastern Ukraine

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When FLEX students prepare for their exchange year, they are taught the phrase “Not better, not worse, just different” and this is what must...

FLEX Alumni Provide a Space of English Immersion Through “Camp Unity”

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Since 2014, Daryna Lapay '07 (Odessa, Ukraine/Gilbert, AZ) and Yaroslav Lapay '08 (Kupyansk-Vuzlovyy, Ukraine/Muncie, IN) teachers at the I Love English Language School organized...

Virtually Exploring Chernihiv Together

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COVID-19 may be causing many restrictions across the globe, but this hasn’t prevented the FLEX Alumni community in Central Ukraine from coming up with...

FLEX Alumni Meet and Reminisce in Kyiv

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On February 1, FLEX Alumni Coordinator in Central Ukraine Yevheniya Vodopyanova '12 organized an alumni get together at the Golden Gate Pub in Kyiv....

Vira Hrabchuk ’19 and her Charitable Theater: “Poklykannia”

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Vira Hrabchuk ‘19 (Ternopil, Ukraine/Colorado Springs, CO) started a theater company in Ukraine called "Poklykannia" to raise funds for disabled children in her community....

The Kharkiv Recycling Project: an Initiative by FLEX Alumni Ukraine City Representatives

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 “The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” – Robert Swan, Author FLEX City Representatives Viktoriya Motrenko ’17 (Kharkiv,...