Team Tobati 2024
Team Tobati is excited to undertake our Los Angeles branch’s second-annual service learning trip to Paraguay this March (leaving Saturday March 23rd and returning Sunday March 31st). Participants will spend the week in Tobati, a small town about 2 hours outside the capital city, doing a combination of service learning and cultural exchange activities with students at the town’s only private high school, The Instituto Cultural Reinaldo Macchi (ICRM). ICRM, founded and partially funded by two doctors (a married couple) who emigrated from Tobati to the United States, provides full scholarships to the most talented students from the poorest neighborhoods and villages around Tobati, giving them an opportunity to escape the abject poverty that plagues their communities.
The trip provides a unique opportunity to explore an entirely new culture and make lasting bonds with kids from the other side of the world, while also making a real, tangible impact on the lives of others. Many of the students (and their parents) at ICRM have never left their village, so the opportunity to create a friendship with someone from another continent is not just exciting, but also inspiring – I’ve heard first hand from ICRM students how interacting and befriending American students motivates them to believe in the school’s motto: “todo es posible // anything is possible”.
The trip provides a unique opportunity to explore an entirely new culture and make lasting bonds with kids from the other side of the world, while also making a real, tangible impact on the lives of others. Many of the students (and their parents) at ICRM have never left their village, so the opportunity to create a friendship with someone from another continent is not just exciting, but also inspiring – I’ve heard first hand from ICRM students how interacting and befriending American students motivates them to believe in the school’s motto: “todo es posible // anything is possible”.
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