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AMIGOS is an international nonprofit organization founded in 1965. We train and provide opportunities for high school and college students to participate in service projects in Latin America during the summer. These projects give young leaders the opportunity to explore their potential and rise to the challenge of independently managing responsibility within a multicultural setting. We believe the young people have the power and ability to change our world for the better!

Every year a select group of volunteers spends five to eight weeks in a host country working on different public health and youth leadership projects. In the Summer of 2008, AMIGOS volunteers will live and work in Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Uruguay and Paraguay.

Throughout the school year the East Bay Chapter prepares its members for their Latin America experiences through training in cross-cultural sensitivity, networking, technical skills, personal health & safety, and the culture of Latin America. In June, our chapter volunteers travel to their assigned countries. Once in country, they join with volunteers from other chapters throughout the United States. Volunteers are then placed, in partnerships of two to four, in rural or semi-rural communities to live for the summer.

Life-long friendships have been built between AMIGOS volunteers and their adopted communities. Thousands of young people have learned invaluable lessons about cultural differences, community service, and their own ability to lead. We hope you join us!

If you come to help me, then you are wasting your time. If you come because your liberation is bound together with mine, then let us work together. - An Aboriginal Saying