CC Alumna Promotes Youth Sports in Azerbaijan
Posted: 05/07/2008
During her time in the U.S. on the Community Connections Youth and Amateur Sports exchange, Malahat Tagiyeva was inspired by the level of support for youth activities from government agencies, NGOs and businesses. With new skills and resources from the CC program, Tagiyeva, Deputy Head of the Lenkaran City Youth and Sports Department, is now actively campaigning for increased community involvement in youth programs. 
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New Caucasus-based Publication Sheds Light on Corruption and Bias
Posted: 04/29/2008
Anna Lebedeva, a Rostov-on-Don Community Connections Russia alumna, participated in CC training in the United States in April and May 2007. Lebedeva, a correspondent for the Novaya Gazeta and the Southern Russia Glasnost Defense Foundation, was drawn to the Investigative Journalism and Corruption Prevention program’s emphasis on the detrimental effects of corruption, and was subsequently inspired to launch her own newspaper.
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CC Participant Performs in Uzbek Drama at Dartmouth College
Posted: 04/16/2008
Dartmouth College is honored to present Ilkhom Theatre’s performance of White White Black Stork at the Hopkins Center in Hanover, New Hampshire, on April 18th and 19th. Adapted from stories by Abdullah Kadyri, White White Black Stork is the story of a Sufi Muslim boy and girl from Tashkent, who fall in love but must submit to marriages arranged by their parents.
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PH Begins Georgian Legal Socialization Project
Posted: 04/11/2008
Project Harmony is pleased to announce the start of the Georgian Legal Socialization Project (GLSP), funded by the U.S. Department of State Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs. GLSP is a 12-month pilot project that will partner Georgian law enforcement officers with school educators to support positive changes in areas of public safety, crime prevention and civic society development.
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Advocacy Group Supports Health and the Environment in Georgia
Posted: 03/31/2008
Karlo Amirgulashvili, Director of the Georgian Nature Lovers Society and a Community Connections program alumnus, has started an education campaign to raise awareness of the health-related benefits of environmental conservation. To encourage activism on the issue, Amirgulashvili organized a conference in Telavi in December 2007 to share his CC experience with colleagues engaged in environmental and health-related concerns.
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CC Alumnus Transforms Business Education for Azeri Youth
Posted: 03/23/2008
Ilyas Safarli, the Director of Development at Uluchay Charitable Society, has expertly applied the skills and opportunities acquired through a USAID Community Connections program to expand his work with the youth of Azerbaijan. Safarli spent much of his time during the CC Youth and Amateur Sports / Interest-based Associations exchange to learn how US organizations use hands-on learning to motivate program participants.
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Chavush University Faculty Embrace Technology-supported Library Resources
Posted: 03/12/2008
In February 2008, the Chuvash University Academic Library in Russia hosted Faculty Day for the University Law School, organized by IDEA alumnus and librarian Ludmila Yevdokmova. With inspiration and information provided by IDEA training, Yevdokmova designed innovative, multimedia presentations to illustrate the dynamic services that the library offers faculty members.
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IDEA Alumnus Presents at the International Youth Convent in Finland
Posted: 03/05/2008
Kira Korotkova of the Karelia-based Norden NGO recently represented her organization at the International Youth Convent in Lappeenranta, Finland. The multimedia presentation that provided the basis of her address was designed with the help of training she received at the IDEA Center in Petrozavodsk.
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Community Connections in the Republic of Georgia Begins 3rd Year
Posted: 02/20/2008
The USAID-funded Community Connections Program has begun recruiting in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia for the third year. Working closely with USAID Mission in Tbilisi, six themes have been identified for the upcoming year: - Film Production (nationwide) - Vocational Educatoin and Business Alliances (Imereti Region) - Tolerance, Community Relations, and Minority Rights (nationwide) - Rural Environmental Management in Selected Tourist Areas (Samtskhe-Javakheti Region) - Community Empowerment and Rural School Administration (Keda and Khelvachauri
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Delegation from Belarus to Visit Vermont
Posted: 02/15/2008
Project Harmony is excited to welcome ten professionals from the Republic of Belarus to Vermont from April 16 – May 7, 2008, as part of USAID/World Learning’s Community Connections Program. The program will focus on volunteerism, as participants learn about volunteer relations, institutional and legal frameworks for volunteering, values and principles of volunteer efforts, and the important roles that volunteer programs play in addressing social and developmental issues.
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