Amigos de las Americas - Community Impact Project

I LOVED this program. The amount I learned and the relationships I made with other volunteers in unexplainable and absolutely amazing. I loved every moment that I got to spend with my new friends. I hope that you will join this program and have just an amazing time as I did.
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Our daughter did the CIP in the summer of 2020. The program was excellent - a great balance of skill development, connection with peers and mentors, and practical work connecting with local people in our community.
The work was challenging but well supported, and she developed great connections despite the current physical distancing requirements. She got Spanish language development, design thinking and project planning instruction and mentoring, and support for practicing new experiences like calling up business and community leaders and getting them interested and committed to supporting her project.
At the end of the program she was proud of all the work she had done. She is still excited to talk about how her new confidence and skills open up all kinds of opportunities for her in the future.

We were very lucky to come across this program with almost all other activities being cancelled this summer. This online program taught my teen the skills to become a social activist and how to prepare her own program. Although she has completed the 6 weeks training program, she continues to work on getting her program started with local kids in need. She received excellent feedback from the program managers and her peers. I highly recommend Amigos for your teen that aspires to change the world!

This program changed my life. It was online but I will never forget. I got to meet new people from all over the world. I learned about their dances, dishes, lifestyle. I got to know about their culture. Moreover, I became more confident, learned how to start a community project and communicate better. I learned that trying is better than doing nothing. You will never know if you can until you start working on it. Learn from your failures, nobody gets it right every time or their first time. I also practiced my Spanish and expanded my vocabulary. I experienced something new. Something that I was afraid to try but I decided to come out of my comfort zone and give it a go. Let me just say, I do not regret my decision. In fact, being part of the first online community impact project was one of the best decisions I made. Thank you!

I felt motivated during the whole program, at first I didn't know that my voice and actions could have such a good imoact in my community and as I was hearing from my peers and their projects I became more and more involved in my community because I noticed the impact that the youth can make, the mentors were amazing and good leaders too, I just think that maybe if there was a way to follow the first steps of the projects after the program ends it can be even more helpfull, but overall I would one hundred porcent recommend it.

The CIP program was a true wonder for its great ability to allow students to connect. Not only were students given the opportunity and guidance to connect to their local community through their self-created projects, but they were also allowed to create connections within themselves and with others from various countries and communities. As someone who was able to see this happen throughout the entire group, I can confidently say that all students left with leadership skills, problem solving skills, more cultural understanding, better Spanish, confidence, and more. It was a blessing to see this program come to life as strongly as it did and I can only see it flourishing in the future.