2015 UGRAD Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund Recipients
World Learning is proud to announce that 44 of our current and past UGRAD participants have been selected as recipients for the 2015 Alumni Engagement Innovation Fund (AEIF) sponsored by the Department of State. The team from Laos had the most alumni on any team, totaling 13 participants. World Learning Global UGRAD alumni are team members in the following projects:
- Burma: Human Rights for IDPs
- Indonesia: Youth Camps: Climate Change Action
- Laos: Vientiane Education Fair (VEF)
- Malaysia: ASEAN Internship
- Mongolia: Empowering Women & Girls Through Entrepreneurship
- Mongolia: Equal Access: Crowdsourcing a wheelchair map
- Tunisia: Young Tunisian Coders Academy
- Vietnam: MediaME – Media & Skills Training for change
Promotional video for Laos: Vientiane Education Fair (VEF)
Kyane, a team member of the Young Tunisian Coders Academy (YCTA) had this to say: “It is such a honor to be the recipient of the AEIF grant. But it is also a responsibility: the responsibility of giving back to the community. As alumni of the Department of State’s programs, all the members of YTCA have learned so much from their American experience. Now it’s time to bring back our freshly squeezed learning to Tunisia and make a positive impact in our communities.” One of Kyane’s teammates described their project by saying: “In a world dominated by technology, kids are growing up surrounded by hundreds of electronic devices that they interact with in their everyday lives. We, the Young Tunisian Coders Academy team, are well aware of this fact and as a consequence, have pooled our efforts together in order to make kids take advantage of that surrounding technology. Our team member Achraf, a NESA UGRAD participant, is leading the project.”
World Learning congratulates Kyane, Achraf and all the 2015 AEIF recipients on their success and wishes them the best in implementing their programs.