Embassy News
Third Annual American Corner Coordinators’ Workshop
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| Participants in this year’s American Corner coordinators’ workshop. |
On August 5-6, the U.S. Embassy’s third annual workshop for American Corner coordinators took place at the American Corner (AC) in Karaganda. Ten AC coordinators from Kazakhstan and one AC coordinator from Tomsk/Russia presented their programming successes and the difficulties they face in their daily work, shared their experiences, and brainstormed about ways of strengthening AC programs. Other themes included effective marketing and fundraising, active networking, working with databases, promotion of U.S. government-sponsored exchange study programs, local volunteerism, and a presentation of the newly created website of the ACs in Kazakhstan.
Information Resource officer William Middleton from Washington D.C., together with the counselor for public affairs from the U.S. Embassy Astana, Victoria Sloan, welcomed participants to the workshop and thanked representatives from the city and oblast akimat – Vera Andreeva, deputy head of the Department of Culture of the Karaganda oblast akimat, and Valentina Razumova, foreign languages methodologist of the Karaganda city Department of Education – for the excellent cooperation.
The two-day workshop was funded by the Bureau of International Information Programs (IIP) and organized by the Public Affairs Office of the U.S. Embassy Astana. The workshop was widely covered by local TV and print media. For more information about American Corners in Kazakhstan, visit www.amcorners.kz
