FLEX alumni from several countries organized various events in June 2012, including sports networking, welcoming returnees, fundraising for medical expenses, breast cancer awareness activities, speed networking, orphanage visits, volunteering seminars, trips to the zoo, gardening with elders, and blood drives. Events brought together 80 or more alumni and benefited organizations like orphanages and cancer initiatives through collaborative volunteering efforts.

1. Eurasia FLEX
Alumni Events
June 2012

2. Armenia
FLEX partnered with the US
Embassy and the Alumni
Association of Armenia to
organize a sports-themed speed
networking event for USG
alumni

3. Azerbaijan
FLEX alumni traveled to
the airport to meet the new
FLEX returnees from the
C’ 2012

4. Central Ukraine
FLEX alumni collected the money for Daryna Rudenko, a
small girl who was diagnosed with leukemia

5. Georgia
FLEX helped organize
Race for the Cure, a
global breast cancer
awareness raising
campaign, for the
fourth year in a row

6. Kazakhstan
Around 80 USG alumni
gathered at the roof top of
Royal Tulip Almaty for a
speed networking event.

7. Kyrgyzstan
Instead of a one-day conference, this alumni reunion took
place over two days, with different activities for FLEXers and
other USG alumni

8. Northwest Russia
FLEX alumni
cooperated with three
partner organizations to
host a second seminar
on contemporary
volunteerism

9. Siberia
More than 30 kids from the Tomsk Orphanage Eyrie got to
take a trip to the Novosibirsk Zoo, thanks to our FLEX
alumni.

10. Southern Russia
FLEX alumni went to an orphanage for disabled kids to
engage them in fun activities

11. Southern Ukraine
FLEX alumni and other
volunteers visited the
Makarenko orphanage for
mentally challenged
children

12. Tajikistan
FLEXers gave their local
elders an active day of
gardening and socializing

13. Turkmenistan
35 FLEX alumni at the
Information Resource Center
(IRC) of the US Embassy’ s
Public Affairs Section
participated in the 2012 Cross-
Generational FLEX Alumni
Encounter

14. Urals
FLEX alumni with volunteer artists painted the front walls in
the hall of an orphanage.

15. Western Ukraine
FLEX alumni together with
NGO Spilnymy Zusylliamu
organized a blood drive
dedicated to Youth Day.