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San Pedro, Paraguay

Location: San Pedro, Paraguay
Project Focus:
 Reforestation and Nutrition
Length: 6 Weeks
Dates: June 21, 2010 - August 4, 2010

Project Specific Activities:

  • Build 8-10 fuel-efficient stoves in each community
  • Facilitate educational activities with youth counterparts on nutrition, reforestation, and benefits of stoves.
  • Participate in reforestation initiatives, including both tree-planting and educational activities. 
  • Collaborate with community members on the planning and implementation of a community-based initiative (CBI).
  • Some Volunteers may be partnered for 10 days with youth from the Junior Achievement program in Paraguay.

Take a Photo Tour of San Pedro

Project History:

AMIGOS initiated its work in Paraguay in 1972 in partnership with the Ministry of Health. For a number of years the project included a combination of human immunizations and community sanitation efforts. In 1993, AMIGOS expanded its work and divided the projects into two separate projects, one project focused on human immunizations based in Asunción and another focused on community sanitation based in a nearby region.

In 2001, AMIGOS began focusing on community sanitation, health, and environmental education. Three years ago AMIGOS projects directed an increasingly significant portion of their focus towards youth leadership development and extracurricular education with children in communities.   This year in San Pedro, the project will continue to synthesize aspects of previous projects in Paraguay: community health, environmental education, youth leadership development, and extracurricular activities.  Summer 2010 will also mark our seventh year of collaboration with Junior Achievement.

Partner Agencies:

Plan Paraguay
Fundacion Paraguaya/Junior Achievement
REFOPAR

Further Actions:
AMIGOS Voices


“Through my work with AMIGOS, I learned about grassroots inside out models of community development – the ability for marginalized collectives to use the assets they already have available to initiate effective change on their own terms – and as a part of this process, I discovered the infinite potential to use self-representation as a vehicle for empowerment. ”

–Jeff Zimbalist, Veteran Volunteer and professional documentary maker