10月16日VOA聽力：懷念"美國之友“建立50周年
Since it was founded in Houston 50 years ago,Amigos de las Americas has sent 26,000 U.S. highschool and college students to work on projects inLatin American communities.
Our approach is not necessarily to help the needy;that is not what we do. What we do is createprograms that invest in the capacity of young people to be leaders for themselves and leadersfor their communities.
Amigos de las Americas President and CEO Sara Nathan said participants work on projects toimprove education, health care or community resources.
They are really also about training and giving young people the experience of learning how toidentify something to do in their communities and carry it out themselves.
Former volunteer and current staff member Ryan Kingston was studying computers when hesigned on for what turned out to be a transformative experience.
It was really great to get to know kind of what it is like to travel and to live in a differentcircumstance and to really focus on learning a new language and developing a whole other partof my brain that I hadn’t really been working on.
Since 1965, Amigos volunteers and staff have developed lasting friendships in Latin America.
Marta Ascherio said she learned that character and virtue have little to do with economiccircumstances.
I didn’t see it as poverty; I saw it as my friends and my family. And so I think it gave me thisreally unique perspective on: What does poverty mean? What does it mean to be happy?What does it mean to have enough? What does it mean to have a life?”
Over the years, Amigos de las Americas has expanded from summer programs to someprograms that last up to a year and at least one U.S.-based program.
It is the first program Amigos has run where we bring Latin Americans to the United States todo their training and then they go home to do their service abroad.
Nathan said many Amigos participants go on to make careers in the U.S. Foreign Service orother international programs.
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