International Volunteer
International VolunteerFounded in 1965, Amigos empowers college students to develop leadership skills and increase multi-cultural understanding through community service in Latin America.
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In college, I spent the summer of 1984 working as a voluteer in Michoacan, Mexico for Amigos de las Americas.
I lived in a small town named Atzimbo, which did not have running water, so I helped the town develop a community sanitation program. This involved everything from holding town meetings to digging latrines. Twenty years later, I would return to Mexico with a dozen students to do volunteer work.as the Director of the Service Learning Center at St. Mary's University. |
1984, Lake Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico
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1985, Laura & Adriana, Cartago, Costa Rica
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During the summer of 1985, I returned to Central America as a volunteer for Amigos. This time, I was stationed in San Jose, Costa Rica and I was part of a team that organized and managed a dental program in partnership with the Costa Rican Ministry of Health.
I supervised ten health-care volunteers who were living in five cities throughout the country. This position as a supervisor took me around the country via bus, as I had volunteers in San Jose, Heredia, Cartago, Limon, and Puntarenas. My role included taking mail and other news to the volunteers, checking on their health and well being, and to ensure that their work was progressing. This meant that I saw a lot of the country because one city, Limon, was on the Caribbean/ Atlantic Ocean coast, and another city, Puntarenas, was on the Pacific Ocean coast. |
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1985, my official "volunteer Card" from the Ministry of Health in Costa Rica
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