FLEX Friendship Abroad Leads to Life-Saving Collaboration
By Kelsa Graybill
The full name of the featured FLEX alumnus has been left out for privacy reasons during the current conflict in Ukraine.
Few would...
Connecting Volunteers to Volunteering Opportunities in Ukraine
By Nataliia Kalantayenko '19 (Konotop, Ukraine/ Bakersfield, California)
The Volunteer Platform is the first online resource for finding volunteer opportunities throughout Ukraine. The platform connects...
Going Digital: Alumni in Ukraine Find New Ways to Promote FLEX
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
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
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
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
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”
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
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
On February 1, FLEX Alumni Coordinator in Central Ukraine Yevheniya Vodopyanova '12 organized an alumni get together at the Golden Gate Pub in Kyiv....
