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YES Alumni Update: Paulina Maingo

Paulina Maingo was one of IRIS’s YES students from Tanzania during the 2008-2009 school year. She lived in Story City and attended Roland-Story High School.

The YES program includes a component where students participate in alumni projects once they return to their home countries. Paulina designed a community improvement project in which she distributed exercise books and bars of laundry soap to students at a school in Kisarawe, which is in the Pwani Region of Tanzania.

This is her journal assessment of the project.

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March 11, 2010 4 Comments

From a YES student: Joseph wins a medal in speech contest!

Joseph Rutakangwa is a YES student from the Morogoro region of Tanzania. Joseph has been living in Monroe, Iowa, and attends Prairie City-Monroe High School through the U.S. State Department’s Youth Exchange and Study Program.

Here, he shares about the speech competition he was involved with at Prairie City-Monroe (PCM) High School.

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March 1, 2010 1 Comment

From a YES Student: Iowa Global Youth Leadership Conference

Justin Fuime is a high school student from Morogoro, Tanzania. Justin has been living and attending school in Fort Dodge this year through the U.S. State Department’s Youth Exchange and Study Program.

Here, he shares what he’s learned while attending the Iowa Global Youth Leadership Conference, an event which brings together foreign exchange students from across the state to share their diverse perspective on global issues

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February 16, 2010 No Comments

From the Executive Director: Tanzania Alumni Update

Between January 1 – 8, IRIS’s executive director Del Christensen traveled to Tanzania for meetings and to check in on YES alumni activities.

While he was there, he delivered five donated computers from Drake University in Des Moines, Iowa to the YES alumni. These computers will be used by alumni for tutoring and training programs for other youth in the country.

Christensen also met with parents of the YES students who are currently in the United States. The purpose of the meetings was to update them on their child’s progress in the program and answer any questions or concerns they might have.

Finally, he was able to observe and take part in two community service projects organized by and involving numerous YES alumni students and teachers. While the students are volunteering throughout the entire country, these two volunteer projects took place in Moshi and Zanzibar.

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January 14, 2010 1 Comment

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