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The sun shines on Building B, FSI’s newest addition, where classrooms are designed to meet the modern needs of foreign affairs professionals. Photo courtesy of FSI

Professional Growth

Director of Sembrando Inglés Comercial Andrea Bellolio, Manager of the Southern Cone Countries of the Inter-American Development Bank Florencia Attademo-Hirt, President of Uruguay Luis Lacalle Pou, First Lady Lorena Ponce de León, U.S. Ambassador to Uruguay Heide Fulton, and Director of the Binational Center Luciano Bermúdez at the Sembrando Inglés Comercial launch program, March 28. Photo by Francisco Casal

English program in Uruguay attracts attention

Firefighters demonstrate the use of a fire blanket normally used for a vehicle fire during a crisis response exercise during ConGen Johannesburg’s training exercise in January 2023. Photo courtesy of ConGen Johannesburg

ConGen Johannesburg hosts crisis response exercise

A SPEAR team member assigned to Embassy Niamey does pull-ups during the 2022 SPEAR Summit Challenge in Thiès, Senegal, in December 2022. Photo by Vince Crawley

Tactical Training

Embassy Colombo’s civil affairs team and the responders from the Sri Lanka Life Saving team conduct a medical rescue as part of their final exercise of a three-day seminar, Dec. 29, 2022. Photo by Kenneth Ji

Empowering community leaders in times of crisis

Aware and Prepared

Making a Statement | Claudia de Vieytez

Members of Marine Security Guard Detachment Karachi demonstrate a method of carrying an injured person without a stretcher during Karachi’s Emergency Preparedness Fair, Feb. 25. Photo by Narendar Kumar

Team Readiness

Local Guard Force trainers Burim Hamiti (left) and Oliver Spirkovski (right) provide instruction on packing a wound to Oksana Onasenko from post’s International Narcotics and Law Enforcement section, as part of first aid training at the Military of North Macedonia’s Ilinden Barracks, during a mission-wide disaster drill, May 16. Photo by Tatjana Hadji-Andova

Skopje’s Health Unit implements innovative training program

Students rehearse a play in English during a musical theater camp at the Deutsch-Amerikanische Institut in Tübingen, Germany. Approximately 100 independent binational centers contract with embassies to double as American Spaces. Photo by Sophia Kummler

Engaging Foreign Audiences

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