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Meridian Reads: Brexit, Australia and the royals

IVLP brings former white supremacist, Auschwitz Museum workers together

Meridian Reads: Bhutan, Gulf tensions and Big Ben

April 24, 2019

Program Theme Spotlight: Transparency & Accountability

January 31, 2019

Participants from the

Program Theme Spotlight: Women’s Empowerment

January 29, 2019

Antoinette Botti (in green shirt), founder and owner of ASSÔWÔ (meaning Stand Up), a cooperative that involves every woman in her village in Cote d'Ivoire

IVLP Alumni Spotlight: Creating Jobs for Women in Rural...

December 18, 2018

HOCIC's community service programs at a local children's home was inspired by Sunga's time on a Volunteerism IVLP project in 2014.

IVLP Alumni Spotlight: Empowering Women in Rural Areas

November 2, 2018

High Tech Entrepreneurship in Low-Tech Environments Group

Program Theme Spotlight: Technology Entrepreneurship

November 2, 2018

Participants from the IVLP

Visitors from Mongolia translate historical tablet for University of...

July 25, 2018

Ms. Mehreen Shoaib (IVLP 2011) and Ms. Rahat Jabeen (IVLP 2008) have partnered on numerous projects in Pakistan as a result of meeting each other through the IVLP network.

IVLP Alumni Spotlight: The Impact of Partnerships

July 25, 2018

A Law Enforcement exchange program from Kenya visited the Red Wing Police Department in Minnesota to discuss the partnerships involved in community policing.

Program Theme Spotlight: The Power of Partnerships

November 30, 2017

An IVLP Energy Security group from Europe surveys solar panels installed by students atop a school in Anacostia, District of Columbia

Program Theme Spotlight: Energy Security

November 30, 2017

Dr. Firas Albadran examines Nextera Energy wind turbines in Oklahoma on his IVLP project

IVLP Alumni Spotlight: Renewable Energy Studied in Iraq