Asel Matieva ’13 (Kyzyl-Adyr, Kyrgyzstan)
Event Location: Talas region,
Kyrgzystan
$378 FLEX Alumni GYSD Grant Funding
$413 cost share from: American Corner
in Talas, local schools, Language School 'Moving Forward', Peace Corps
Volunteers, FLEX and ACCESS alumni volunteers.
A group of four
alumnae: Asel Matieva ’13, Nargiza Kanybek kyzy ‘13, Meryem Karakhasanova ‘13 and
Ayday Amankulova ’14 held trainings and discussions at the schools in Talas
region: Ak Dobo, Sasyk Bulak, Ak Korgon and Talas city. 170 secondary school students
from 9-11 grades took part in the project. ACCESS Program Alumni
(Micro-scholarship Program for students) in Talas helped alumnae to run the discussions
and interactive part of the project. On the first day each alumna delivered
presentations on following topics: challenges of education in villages, ways of
empowering oneself through education and educational opportunities for
students. The topics of the sessions also covered the important information
about research skills, self-development, and community service.
During the project
Peace Corp volunteers spoke about the role of education in American society and
how education personally effected on their lives, which gave project
participants a chance to compare the role of education in two different
countries. During the project participants watched a video made for them by
Aizada Marat kyzy ‘08 FLEX alumna currently attending Harvard Law School in
USA. She talked about her educational experience and gave very important advice
to project participants.
On the second day
participants put the theory into practice. They worked in teams of six people
to make research about different learning opportunities and programs in
Kyrgyzstan. Participants created poster that had information about their
research topics.
