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Border Youth Tennis Exchange BYTE is a binational youth development organization that provides athletic art techbased academic and job readiness training to children and adults on both sides of the USMexico border. BYTE Specializes in locked facility programming supporting vulnerable displaced populations in Arizona California and Sonora Mexico. BYTE hosts 14 inperson program sites partnering with migrant and childwelfare shelters state and municipal prisons and inresidence facilities for adults and youth with developmental and behavioral disabilities. BYTE highlights the impact sports diplomacy and sportsbased interventions can have on community resilience humanitarian aid and public health.