​Helping to Build a Better Future in Tobati, Paraguay

Team Tobati seeks to help the poor and introduce young people to meaningful community service.  Team Tobati is a volunteer group made up of high school students, staff, and faculty who, along with local medical professionals and volunteers, seek to accomplish three primary goals. First, the organization hopes to raise the standard of living of the impoverished majority of Tobati , Paraguay. The team actively supports the improvement of education and healthcare within this poor rural community. Second, by spending time in Paraguay, Team Tobati offers its members the opportunity to experience a different culture and economic reality from their own. Each March, team members spend eight to ten days in Tobati interacting extensively with individuals who face the daily challenges of underdevelopment. Students, teachers, and volunteers see first hand the low wages, underemployment, malnutrition, lack of formal medical attention, and the insufficient educational structures that exist throughout the developing world. Third, through fund-raising campaigns, initiating various donation drives, and taking part in numerous community service projects in Paraguay, team members gain the perspective and pride that come from directly helping a region condemned to poverty.

Team Tobati's crowning acheivement has been the construction and funding of the Macchi School, a 7 - 12 middle school and high school for strong students who are economically challenged. Along with many other projects and initiatives, the Macchi School is proof that when working together with a pure heart ​todo es posible.