GYSD Grants

Five members of the FLEX Alumni Community in North Kazakhstan received Global Youth Service Day Matching Grants and organized amazing projects.  Let’s learn about...

Eliza Melkonyan (Yerevan, Armenia)Event Location: Spitak, Jrashen, Gogaran, Sarahart and Saramej-Lori$469 FLEX Alumni Grant Funding$600 cost share from: Spitak Farmer NGO, volunteer speakers and...

Project Organizer: Didana Suseeva '15Event Location: Karakol, Tokmok, Besh-Koruk and Naryn, Kyrgyzstan$ 434 in FLEX Alumni Grant Funding$ 842 cost share from: environmental trainer...

American Councils for International Education is pleased to announce the annual Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) Matching Grants program for FLEX and YES alumni....

Asel Matieva ’13 (Kyzyl-Adyr, Kyrgyzstan) Event Location: Talas region, Kyrgyzstan $378 FLEX Alumni GYSD Grant Funding $413 in cost share from: American Corner in Talas, local schools,...

FLEX and YES alumni took on the Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) challenge this spring - organizing events in their communities and working with...

Anastasiya Karavan ‘14 (Chernihiv, Ukraine)Event Location: Bila Tserkva (Kyiv Region), Cherkasy, Rohatyn (Ivano-Frankivsk Region), Chernivtsi, Zaporizhzhia, Chernihiv, Kharkiv, Sumy, Poltava, Okhtyrka (Sumy Region), Zalishchiky...

Global Youth Service Day (GYSD) is the largest service event in the world and the only one that celebrates the contributions that children and...

 Kanat Osmonov ’14 (Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan)Event Location: Bishkek$350 FLEX GYSD Grant Funding$480 cost share from: municipal organization ‘Tazalyk’, FLEX alumni volunteers   Kanat Osmonov’s project focused on...

Project organizer: Shushanna Arakelyan '15Event location: Arbat, Armenia$312 FLEX Alumni GYSD Matching Grant Funding$400 cost share from local teachers and the school principal, village...