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MEDIA COVERAGE
2010
Nursing Students from the University of Texas to Travel to Peru
HSC News, March 10, 2010
This June, a group of ten nursing students will travel to Vina Vieja, a rural community in Peru that sustained a 7.9 magnitude earthquake in 2007. With facilitation by Partners of the Americas, the students will assist with the long-term medical recovery of the community.
Volunteer Family Raising Funds for Earthquake Victims
JWeekly.com, January 21, 2010
While on a Farmer to Farmer assignment in Haiti, Mark and Myriam Pasternak, accompanied by their teenage daughters Lydia and Kyla, lived through the worst natural disaster in Haiti's history. After providing much needed aid and assistance to the victims of the earthquake, the Pasternaks have engaged their communities and organized fundraising events at their home in Marin County, California.
2009
Southsider Jerry Karwowski has been involved in Partners since just after a stop he and his son made in Brazil on the way back from the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia.
Rubi Vega, an Alvin Community College student and Alvin resident, was one of two Texans recently invited to attend the 2009 Conference on Higher Education and International Volunteer Service as a U. S. student scholar in Washington, D. C. Nov. 12-14.Bringing Brazil's Sporting Culture Back to Wyoming
Laramie Boomerang, August 21, 2009
Ann Moore, the director of coaching for the Wyoming Olympic Development Program, spent a week in Brazil on behalf of the Coaching Coaches program managed by the international Partners of the Americas organization. Jamaican Crown Council goes to Washington DC as Fellow
Go Jamaica, May 21, 2009
Jamaican Attorney-at-Law, Tasha Manley, who is Crown Counsel in the Attorney General’s Office, has been selected to participate in the American Fellows programme.
Brazilian Music Students Enrich Columbia CommunityColumbia Missourian, March 20, 2009As part of an exchange developed over 20 years ago between the Brazilian state of Pará and Missouri, 2 Brazilian students are sharing their rich culture and tradition at Missouri University Music School and the people of their community in Columbia, Missouri.
Partners of the Americas hosted the first Midwestern Regional Conference on Volunteerism with a focus on citizen diplomacy.
2008
People-to-People Diplomacy unites two countries despite political differences
The Tennessean, November 11, 2008
Through Partners' work, American citizens from Tennessee are building understanding and cooperation with Venezuelans through sports and exchanges during a time of political tension between their respective heads of state.
Stevens Point Journal, October 31, 2008
Volunteers from the Wisconsin chapter have brought together over 500 helmets and other equipment to help Nicaraguan children play safe and enjoy the love for baseball that brings both nations together.
Statesman Journal, October 1, 2008
Costa Rican travelers get first hand view of the American education system through a tour of an Oregon Middle School.
University of Wisconsin, October 1, 2008
Dorly Piske, member of the Wyoming/Goias Partnership, is organizing jewelery making classes for students of all ages, with the proceeds from both the classes and the sale of the jewelery going to the purchase of a mobile mammogram unit for the women of Goias, Brazil.
The Guanacaste Journal, September 9, 2008
Under the Sister Schools program, funded by Partners of the Americas, Oregon and Costa Rica are creating institutional ties between schools to allow for a greater cultural and academic exchange between the their students.
The Daily Gazette, September 9, 2008
Andrea Cornejo, former intern and current Peru-Texas Partnership member, is building a library in the village of Viña Vieja, bringing the joy of reading to the community's children.
Stevens Point Journal, July 24, 2008
Paricipants in our Baseball Exchange are learning new skills and drills to make their home teams winning examples of how to use sports for community and youth development.
Inter-American Bank Press Release, July 22, 2008
A Ganar/Vencer is the highlighted program at this year's IDB Sport for Development Meeting held at their headquarters in Washington D.C.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle, March 29, 2008
When Antigua's hottest young drummers jam with Marshall High School's steel band Sunday, expect a bang-up cultural exchange.
Yale Daily News, January 25, 2008
Paraíba chapter member, Pedro Henrique De Christo, is working with Yale University to launch the university's Brazil internship program for the summer of 2008.
2006
Vermonter offers Haiti commerce ideas (PDF)
Rutland Herald, July 30, 2006
With its myriad tropical islands, the Caribbean is a prime vacation spot. But when Linda Aines traveled to the Caribbean for three weeks, she visited a region not known for its tourists: Haiti.
Sister Cities' deal long time in the making (PDF)
The Noblesville Ledger, July 25, 2006
Over the years Noblesville, Indiana has sent three delegations to Rio Grande du Sol, a Sister State with Indiana for 37 years through the Partners of the Americas.
Citizen diplomats can show world the real America (PDF)
Des Moines Register, July 12, 2006
Citizen diplomacy is a concept that has been at work for America for decades. If you've ever studied alongside an exchange student, been a tourist in a foreign land or participated in international business, you are a citizen diplomat.
Kopecky hosts visitor from Nicaragua (PDF)
The BEE Online, July 6, 2006
While working with farmers in Nicaragua through a Partners of the Americas program, Price County Agriculture and Natural Resources Agent Mark Kopecky met Dr. Ronald Blandon Bustemante.
Preserving the natural beauty of our island (PDF)
Nation News, June 21, 2006
In November, 1985, through Partners of the Americas, we brought to Barbados Ivan Vamos, deputy commissioner, planning and development, New York State Office, Parks, Recreation and Historic Preservation.
A world of expression (PDF)
Inquirer and Mirror, March 10, 2006
Rocha began performing in Brazil in 1985. In 1988 he received a grant from Partners of the Americas to study with mime master Tony
Montanaro in Maine.
2005
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