Future Leaders Exchange: Placement

Program News

• FLEX Alumni Facilitate Exchange Between Orphans and Elderly 01/23/12
  In December 2011, four alumni of the Future Leaders Exchange (FLEX) program, administered by American Councils for International Education, brought young orphans and elderly people together in an act of American-style volunteerism. For three days, the alumni met with developmentally disabled orphans from Moscow's Boarding School No. 8 to make small gifts and practice songs, which they then presented to residents of an elderly care home. By organizing more than 500 volunteer events in 2011 alone, FLEX program alumni are changing the perception that community-based volunteerism is rare in Russia. The Moscow Times highlighted this volunteer project as a part of a news series on the FLEX program.
• FLEX Alumni Coordinator Training Conference - a Eurasian Team is Born 10/15/10
  In her concluding remarks at the FLEX Alumni Coordinator (AC) Training Conference, Mary Shea, Eurasia FLEX Alumni Program Manager, noted that the 18 ACs at this year's gathering showed outstanding potential to lead and develop FLEX alumni organizations throughout Eurasia, and are on the path to success. Having led this conference for ten years, Mary saw what all of the trainers, U.S. Embassy representatives, and other American Councils staff members observed - that the 2010-2011 FLEX Alumni Coordinator team is a force to be reckoned with.