One Step Initiative

Congratulations to our very own Jenny P., for your induction into the inaugural California State Long Beach 49 Under 49!!! 🖤💛🖤

"You're a shining star
No matter who you are
Shining bright to see
What you could truly be"

Keep on shining!😎

BEACH
*pictured here with CSULB President, Dr. Jane Close Conoley*

¡MADRID! 🧭 OSI Youth Global Ambassadors embark on a journey across Spain from Barcelona to Madrid. 🖤💛🤎🤎🇪🇸

📌 Plaza de Toros, Las Ventas Bullring.

The Journey of a thousand miles, begins with ONE STEP! 🤎🤎🤎💛🖤🌎🇪🇸

Getting familiar with culture and art during a historical scavenger hunt near the Cathedral of Barcelona. 💛💛💛🤎♥️🇪🇸💎🧭

Up, Up and Away: To Spain and Beyond! ✈️🌏 -

Up, Up and Away: To Spain and Beyond! ✈️🌏

MEM 🛩 to BCN.
How it started: (Memphis, Tennessee, USA)
How it's going: (Barcelona, Spain, Europe)
Pleased to announce that our Spring 2024 cohort of Youth Global Ambassadors arrived in Spain safely.

Early in the wee hours of the morning, our Global Ambassadors hit the friendly skies from MEM to BCN... Follow along as we explore Barcelona, Spain! 🇪🇸🇪🇸🇪🇸 🎉❤️🩷🧡💛💚💙🩵💜🌎🌏🌍

The next generation of Youth Global Ambassadors have received their passports and are on their way to Spain 🇪🇸. We were grateful to host families for pre-departure fellowship, ice breaker games, food and a pre-travel keynote from 2017 Youth Global Ambassador Cysilie Hines-Growe. Congratulations to all represented families from Tennessee, Mississippi, and Illinois.

The return of the Youth Ambassador Passport Ceremony. Pre-Door opening and welcoming of 15 travelers from Mississippi, Tennessee, Illinois that are on their way to Spain 🇪🇸 Sponsored by One Step Initiative in partnership with EF.

This is a sign and encouragement to renew that passport early and on time!

Renewing Your Passport? You Should Apply Earlier Than You Think With the current backlog of applications, you should apply sooner rather than later.

HISTORIC MOMENT‼️

🇿🇦🇯🇲 | For the first time in history South Africa and Jamaica are through to the knockout rounds.

Celebrating Pani Puri. On July 12 Google's interactive game Doodle celebrated pani puri — a popular South Asian street food made of a crispy shell stuffed with potatoes, chickpeas, spices, or chilis and flavoured waters. And there’s a variety of pani puri for everyone’s taste buds! On this day in 2015, in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, a restaurant called Indori Zayka and Dainik Bhaskar achieved the World Record for serving the most flavors of pani puri by offering 51 options, under the guidance of Masterchef Neha Shah.

Discover More: https://www.google.com/doodles/celebrating-pani-puri

Asante King to visit University of Memphis on May 5, 2022: His Majesty Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, Asantehene, of Ghana will visit the University of Memphis campus to present the speech "Contemporary Challenges in US-Africa Relations" on May 5 at 2:30 p.m. in the Rose Theatre. His Majesty is visiting Memphis as part of the Memphis in May International Festival's salute to the Republic of Ghana. https://www.memphis.edu/calendar/index.php?eID=1781

Grab a plate, cooking utensils and ingredients! 🇸🇻

Giving Children Vacations Instead of Toys Can Lead to Advanced Brain Development, Experts Suggest For the next holiday or birthday, instead of shopping for toys, consider spending that money on a family vacation.

Add an African country to your 2020 travel goals this year. Read about the top four here:

Make Traveling To Africa A Priority In 2020 By Visiting These 4 Countries - TravelNoire With campaigns like Ghana’s Year Of Return and Afrochella , interest in traveling to Africa is on...

Black Girls Surf: The Organization Helping Black Women Surfers Go Pro - TravelNoire Stereotypically, surfing has been seen as a non-Black sport, but that notion is far from the...

The Black Expat: ‘The Loss Of My Mother, Father, And Sister Led Me To Move Abroad’ - TravelNoire South Carolina native Danielle Kirkland spent over 15 years teaching in schools across Virginia,...

One of the many world wonders awaits you.

Magical iridescent clouds snapped above skies of Siberia’s Belukha mountain Svetlana Kazina, who lives in the Altai Mountains, snapped these breathtaking pictures of the glowing sky over Belukha mountain, Siberia’s highest peak (4,506 metres/14,783ft). The images show thin clouds resembling soap bubbles in colours. Iridescent clouds, also known as rainbow clouds, occur wh...

These cafes in Agra and Lucknow are run by acid attack survivors Women, who at one time, wouldn't dare step out of their homes are now reclaiming their lives, one cup of coffee at a time

Are you next?

More Americans Are Moving To Ghana, Here’s Why - TravelNoire What started as a promotional campaign by Ghana’s Ministry of Tourism to commemorate 400 years...

Ethiopia gets first female president Experienced diplomat Sahle-Work Zewde is chosen by lawmakers for the ceremonial position.

Germany Is Closing 84 Coal Plants to Save the Planet Germany will close all of its coal plants and instead shift to relying on a clean, renewable energy industry using solar and wind.

Arlington Is Having A Massive Taco Fest With Over 75 Types Of Tacos This Fall Taco overload!

Mexican Grandmother creates a YouTube channel to teach homemade recipes. It already has 265 thousand subscribers - The Mazatlán Post "From my ranch to your kitchen," is Mrs. Angela's humble program. It shows us that the culinary legacy of older adults can also be shared through soci