Youth Exchange and Study (YES) is a program that was established in October, 2002 and sponsored by US Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) to provide scholarships for high school students (15-17 years) from countries with significant Muslim populations to spend up to one academic year in the U.S.

The program is vital to expanding communication between the people of the United States and the partner countries in the interest of promoting mutual understanding and respect.

Students live with host families, attend high school, engage in activities to learn about American society and values, acquire leadership skills, and help educate Americans about their countries and cultures.

The program can support students with disabilities and encourages their participation. ECA works with Mobility International (MIUSA) to provide students with disabilities with leadership-building workshops and appropriate information and support as needed to enhance their year in America.

From 2003 to the present a total of 3,480 students have participated in the YES program. During the coming academic year 2009-10, approximately 1,000 students will join the program from: Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Tunisia and other countries

Upon their return the students apply their leadership skills in their home countries. In addition, alumni groups have formed and been involved with many community service activities including clothing drives, mentoring younger children and English teaching, immunization drives, and much more.

The YES program is currently administered by four organizations and their partners in each country.

AFS-USA implements the YES program in Egypt, Ghana, and Kenya

Additional information

For more information and application, see: Youth Exchange and Study Program Website

For YES/AFS program news, please visit the YES/AFS website

Also see more: College Scholarships » Academic Scholarships » Education Scholarships – Scholarships and Grants

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I am Harold Kaija, one of the aides of Uganda’s main opposition leader, Col. Kiiza Besigye. I have a story I want to tell you colleagues.

In 1923, eight of the wealthiest people in the world met. Their combined wealth, it is estimated, exceeded the wealth of the government of the United States at that time. These men certainly knew how to make a living and accumulate wealth. But let’s examine what happened to them 25 years later. 1. President of the largest steel company, Charles Schwab, lived on borrowed capital for Five …years before he died bankrupt.
2. President of the largest gas company, Howard Hubson, went insane.
3. One of the greatest commodity traders, Arthur Cutton, died insolvent.
4. President of the New York Stock Exchange, Richard Whitney, was sent to jail.
5. A member of the President’s Cabinet, Albert Fall, was pardoned from jail to go home and die in peace.
6. The greatest “bear” on Wall Street, Jessie Livermore committed suicide.
7. President of the world’s greatest monopoly, Ivar Krueger, committed suicide.
8. President of the Bank of International Settlement, Leon Fraser, Committed Suicide.
What they forgot was how to make life! Money in itself is not evil! Money provides food for the hungry, medicine for the sick, Clothes for the needy; Money is only a medium of exchange. We need two kinds of education:
(a) One that teaches us how to make a living and
(b) One that teaches us how to live.

There are people who are so engrossed in their professional life that they neglect their family, health and social responsibilities. If asked why they do this they would reply that they were doing it for their family. Our kids are sleeping when we leave home. They are sleeping when we come home. Twenty years later, we’ll turn back, and they’ll all be gone.

Without water, a ship cannot move. The ship needs water, but if the water gets into the ship, the ship will face problems. What was once a means of living for the ship will now become a means of destruction? Similarly we live in time where earning is necessity but let not the earning enter our hearts, for what was once a means of living will become a means of destruction.

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Youth Exchange and Study (YES) is a program that was established in October, 2002 and sponsored by US Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) to provide scholarships for high school students (15-17 years) from countries with significant Muslim populations to spend up to one academic year in the U.S.

The program is vital to expanding communication between the people of the United States and the partner countries in the interest of promoting mutual understanding and respect.

Students live with host families, attend high school, engage in activities to learn about American society and values, acquire leadership skills, and help educate Americans about their countries and cultures.

The program can support students with disabilities and encourages their participation. ECA works with Mobility International (MIUSA) to provide students with disabilities with leadership-building workshops and appropriate information and support as needed to enhance their year in America.

From 2003 to the present a total of 3,480 students have participated in the YES program. During the coming academic year 2009-10, approximately 1,000 students will join the program from: Egypt, Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Morocco, Mozambique, Nigeria, Senegal, Tanzania, Tunisia and other countries

Upon their return the students apply their leadership skills in their home countries. In addition, alumni groups have formed and been involved with many community service activities including clothing drives, mentoring younger children and English teaching, immunization drives, and much more.

The YES program is currently administered by four organizations and their partners in each country.

AFS-USA implements the YES program in Egypt, Ghana, and Kenya

Additional information

For more information and application, see: Youth Exchange and Study Program Website

For YES/AFS program news, please visit the YES/AFS website

For YES/AFS program news, please visit: Scholarships and Grants >

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During the Committee meeting Chaired by Terego County MP Wadri Kassiano members noted  that the said money was not paid to Burundi Government as was agreed which has prompted the Committee to summon officials from Burundi Government to hear from their side whether the money was received or not.

Kassiano also said the 14 million dollars in Question is said to have been paid through Picfare account which was supposed to supply them with Stationery so that the committee can establish how Ministry of Finance wired the money to Picfare so that the truth is established.

In related development the Committee has also pointed out five Cabinet Ministers who are said to have handled the transaction will  appear before the Committee.

The Ministers to appear include  Khidu Makubuya Former Attorney General, Syda Bumba then Finance minister , Sam Kutesa Foreign Affair Mwesigwa Rukutana then State for Finance among others.

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