BECOME A LEADER!

Applications due October 31, 2018, 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time

For additional information and to apply, visit www.irex.org/csp.

The Community Solutions Program, a fully funded four-month fellowship, is an opportunity to improve your leadership and
management skills through online coursework, face-to-face training, and hands-on experience. Community Solutions offers you
a unique opportunity to join a global network of more than 450 leaders who are working to improve their communities.

BOLIVIA • BRAZIL • COLOMBIA • COSTA RICA • DOMINICAN REPUBLIC • ECUADOR • EL SALVADOR • GUATEMALA • HAITI • JAMAICA •
PARAGUAY • PERU • TRINIDAD AND TOBAGO • URUGUAY

MEET A LEADER: YVENER JEAN MICHEL, HAITI

Using skills learned during
his fellowship, Yvener is
To date, 49 combatting food insecurity
and protecting Haiti’s natural
COMMUNITY LEADERS resources by teaching local
from Latin America and the farmers about sustainable
agriculture.
Caribbean have improved the
lives of over 5,100 PEOPLE
IN THEIR COMMUNITIES.
MEET A LEADER: IN THEIR OWN WORDS:
ANDREA JARAMILLO CONTRERAS, COLOMBIA LOREN DE SOUZA ALMEIDA, BRAZIL

“The Community Solutions

Using strategies gained
Program was a fully immersive,
during her fellowship,
one-of-a-kind experience that
Andrea is building peace
put me in touch with brilliant
in Colombia by protecting
leaders from around the world
the rights of vulnerable
and state-of-the art social
and minority communities.
practices and methodologies.”

THE COMMUNITY SOLUTIONS

PROGRAM INCLUDES:
Are you working to support positive change in your home country?
• Fully-funded hands-on professional
Helping preserve your community’s biodiversity for the next generation?
experience at a community-based
Working to create job opportunities for at-risk youth? Bridging ethnic and organization in the U.S.
cultural divides in your community? If so – come join the next generation
• Online and face-to-face training in leadership
of global leaders and apply for the Community Solutions Program! and management skills

• Personal coaching