Priorities of a FLEX Alumnus
Sometimes I wonder what would have happened if I hadn't become a FLEX alumnus. I probably would have ended up a migrant worker in Russia, working with my cousins in a construction company or earning a living as a taxi driver.
GYSD Tajikistan: Gym for Visually-Impaired Students
Dilafruz Sharifbaeva '11 (Dushanbe, Tajikistan)Event Location: Dushanbe, Tajikistan$500 FLEX Alumni Grant Funding$518 cost share from: U.S. Embassy and FLEX alumni donations
On April 18-19, Dilafruz...
Call For Applications: 2017 Central Asia Smart Storytelling FLEX-Ability Workshop
Workshop Dates July 20-23, 2017
Location: Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan.
Theme: Smart Storytelling
Deadline: June 16, 2017. 11:59 PM EST.
Kindly apply via this online application.
Cental Asia FLEX-Ability Program Description
FLEX-Alumni Bringing...
Farzona Yahyaeva ’12: Building Tajikistan’s Digital Economy
Education: Degree in Management and IT from the Russian-Tajik (Slavonic) University in Dushanbe
“In my home country, Tajikistan, we have a big problem with labor...
Winners of the 2019 FLEX Alumni Photo/Video Contest
Congratulations to the winners of the 2019 FLEX Alumni Photo/Video Contest! Annually, the FLEX Alumni program invites FLEX alumni to submit photos and videos...
GYSD Project: Repairing an Orphanage in Hissor, Tajikistan
Project Organizer: Gulnamo Vatanbekova '15Event Location: Hisor, Tajikistan$ 90 in FLEX Alumni Grant Funding$ 90 cost share from fundraising actions
From April 16 until May...
Central Asia FLEX-Ability Workshop 2017: Smart Storytelling
All of us have stories to tell – and FLEX alumni have so many! From their exchange experiences to stories of the impact that...
Miskola Abdulloeva ’02 Tajikistan
Written by Jacob Smith
Program Officer
American Councils in Dushanbe, Tajikistan
Miskola Abdulloeva, FLEX '02, first learned about the FLEX program when she was a young girl....
A Summer Camp in Gharm, an Isolated Region of Tajikistan
Gharm is one of the most isolated regions of Tajikistan, and only about two high school students from the region are selected annually to...
GYSD Tajikistan: Summer without Mosquitoes
Gulchin Ashur ’14 (Kulob, Tajikistan)
Event Location: Kulob, Tajikistan
$331 FLEX Alumni GYSD Grant Funding
$399 cost share from: local government agencies and the American Corner in...