As a part of each student’s year abroad, the student must complete some sort of volunteer service. Naufal, one of our YES students this year
In late August, the Tanzania YES Alumni Association (TAYAA) held its second annual general meeting. This brought many new and exciting changes for the group,
Bilal Muslim, a YES student from Pakistan, left his big city and traded it in for a new adventure in rural America. Placed in Independence,
Check out IRIS’s art donations we received for the Layers of Diversity Art Auction!
IRIS is so happy to announce Andi Jashari from Kosovo as the March Student of the Month!
YES student Fatma Mahmoudi from Tunisia wins the February IRIS student of the month.
The first week of February brought with it the Iowa caucus and the Iowa Student Global Leadership Conference.
IRIS is proud to announce Enes Us from Turkey as the January student of the month!
IRIS students volunteered in local communities on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
1.5 million people in Nigeria have been forced to flee their homes because of internal conflict, but are unable to flee the country. These refugees, otherwise known as internally displaced persons (IDPs), are living in camps within their state of Nigeria. 68 percent of IDP’s are children within the camps due to the amount of sexual exploitation.
IRIS staff and YES alumni saw the need for assistance within these camps and organized donation programs to take to the camps. Aid through therapy, education, food, clothes, anti-malarial drugs, hygiene materials and even soccer balls were distributed to hundreds of men, women and children in the camps.
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