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Sacramento Volunteers Speak on Capital Public Radio

Teens share their insights about summer volunteer experiences

Capital Public Radio
Sacramento, CA
May 23, 2008

You’ll learn about a non-profit organization that takes high school and college-aged volunteers to Latin America to work on sustainable community-based improvement projects. Amigos de las Americas, a nation-wide secular organization, partners with community members and organizations, including local governments and chapters of the Red Cross and the Peace Corps.

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Capital Public Radio
Sacramento, CA
August 19, 2008

We follow up with Amigos de las Americas, a non-profit organization that takes high school and college-age volunteers to Latin America to work on sustainable community-based improvement projects. We spoke with three of the organizations volunteers in May right before they left to work on various projects in Mexico and Nicaragua.

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AMIGOS Voices

“I continue to be amazed by the profound feeling of "family" there is in AMIGOS. It is unique and precious. I will be eternally grateful for all that AMIGOS has given my daughter, so much more than I could have given her as a parent. She is a "richer" person today because of AMIGOS.”

–Kathy Rowland, Parent of a Volunteer